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  • Frank Frazetta

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    Frank Frazetta was one of the best and most renowned fantasy illustrators in the history of the genre. Frazetta died yesterday, May 10, 2010 at the age of 82. Frazetta began his career as a comics artist, starting as a teenager as an assistant to other artists. He worked for smaller comic book publishers, producing…

  • Jack Davis caricatures of NBC’s entire fall lineup for 1965

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    The great cartoonist, caricaturist and humorous illustrator Jack Davis is best known for his contributions to Mad Comics and Mad Magazine, particularly during the title’s heyday in the 1950’s and 1960’s, but he was a prolific illustrator and his work appeared in a variety of venues. One of them was TV Guide, for which he…

  • The Realist – Asaf Hanuka

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    The Realist is a graphic story by illustrator and comics artist Asaf Hanuka about one family’s search for a new home after their current living arrangements are upset. The strip was originally serialized in a Hebrew language version in the Israeli Newspaper Calcalist. Hanuka has re-lettered it in English and is publishing it on the…

  • Zahra’s Paradise

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    Working under assumed names for obvious reasons, writer “Amir” and artist “Khalil” chronicle events in Iran in the wake of the disputed elections of 2009 in an ongoing story called Zahra’s Paradise. Zahra’s Paradise is a graphic story that is being published as a webcomic in installments every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. It just started…

  • Editorial Drawings of Winsor McCay

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    Even among fans of his comic art masterpiece, Little Nemo in Slumberland (a group of whom I count myself an ardent member), few people are aware of the editorial cartoons of Winsor McCay. During his stints as cartoonist for The Cincinnati Enquirer and The New York Herald, and through syndicated work for the Hearst papers,…

  • Bill Watterson Interview

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    Bill Watterson, the artist and writer of Calvin and Hobbes, to my mind the best late 20th Century comic strip after Pogo ceased publication in 1975, is almost as notable for the things he didn’t do as for his actual accomplishments. He didn’t accept the idea of merchandising his popular characters to the hilt, and…