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Category: Comics

  • Nate Simpson

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    Nate Simpson is a concept artist who has worked in the gaming industry since 1993. He has worked for companies like The Dreamers Guild, Taldren, GoPets Inc. and Gas Powered Games. His credits include leading the art team for Demigod, a 2009 game from Gas Powered Games and Stardock, from which you can see an…

  • Stephen Bissette

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    Stephen Bissette is an American comics artist known for his drawings of monsters and dinosaurs and his work on horror comics titles, in particular for several award winning series of DC Comic’s Swamp Thing with writer Alan Moore. The home page of Bissette’s site serves as a blog, though there is also a specific blog…

  • CBR’s 50 Best Comic Covers of 2009

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    As I pointed out in my 2007 article on Cover Browser, comic book covers have a singular focus: to make you notice the cover, pick up the printed pamphlet or booklet to which it is affixed, slap down your hard earned dollars, and run home clutching it to your chest, cackling maniacally with glee at…

  • John Watkiss concept art for Sherlock Holmes

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    Ordinarily, concept art for film is created as a means of visualizing scenes before they are staged and filmed; giving directors, designers and production companies a guide as they develop the components necessary to actually bring the scene to to the screen. However, according to Borys Kit of The Hollywood Reporter, this is a case…

  • Al Williamson’s Flash Gordon: A Lifelong Vision of the Heroic

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    Anyone who has read my previous post about comics art great Al Williamson, knows that he is high on my personal list of adventure comics artists, but I have to admit that even I was surprised by the new book from Flesk publications, Al Williamson’s Flash Gordon: A Lifelong Vision of the Heroic, that collects…

  • Chris Ware’s Unmasked

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    Unmasked is a Halloween themed cover and four page comic story (two double page spreads) for the November 2nd issue of The New Yorker, by Chris Ware. In a fashion Chris Ware fans have come to expect, the hilarious but subtle cover leads seamlessly into the story, a poignant look at generational and family relations,…