Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Comics

  • Basil Wolverton at Gladstone Gallery

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    The wonderfully demented art of Basil Wolverton, a cartoonist who helped put the “Ugh” in ugly and the “Gross” in gross-out with his work for Mad Comics (later Mad Magazine) in the 1950’s and 60’s, will be on display at the Gladstone Gallery in New York From June 20 to August 14, 2009. The gallery…

  • Eric Orchard

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    Eric Orchard is a Canadian illustrator whose book credits include Anything but Hank! written by Rachel Lebowitz, Zachariah Wells, A Forest for Christmas, written by Michael Harris, and The Terrible Horrible Smelly Pirate written by Carrie Muller and Jacqueline Halsey. His painted comics work include a story for Scholastic called Robot Museum, which is an…

  • Free Comic Book Day 2009

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    Once again, the first Saturday in May, this Saturday, May 2, 2009, is (Hooray!) Free Comic Book Day! Comic book shops across the U.S. will offer a number of free comics, published specially to be given away as examples of the publishers’ lines. Many shops also hold creator signings, sales and other special events. For…

  • Paolo Rivera

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    At one time the brief description line at the top of Paolo Rivera’s blog read: “I am a painter for Marvel Comics. Really, I am.” If that seems odd, you may not be aware that many comic book overs are painted (a practice that has a fairly long history) and, in recent years, an increasing…

  • P. Craig Russell on PCR TV

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    Independent filmmaker Wayne Alan Harold, who has done segments for MTV News, and underground films like Killer Nerd, Bride of Killer Nerd, Girlfriends and Townies, recently launched an online video network called Lurid.com (a great name). One of the leading items on the site is a series called PCR TV, featuring short segments, not quite…

  • S. Clay Wilson

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    Taking a page from yesterday’s post about the first issue of Juxtapoz, which featured an article on Zap Comix 13, I wanted to make a hopefully timely post about underground comix artist S. Clay Wilson. Wilson is a cartoonist and comics artist whose work is rude, crude and full of atti-tude to the point where…