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Category: Comics

  • Robert Crumb Exhibit in Philadelphia

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    Just a quick note that there is a new extensive exhibit of works from demented genius cartoonist and underground comix pioneer Robert Crumb at the Institute for Contemporary Art here in Philadelphia. I’ll write a post about the show, and Robert Crumb, in more detail after I’ve had a chance to see the exhibit, but…

  • Harry Grant Dart

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    Harry Grant Dart was an American illustrator and comics artist active in the late 1800’s and early 1900s. He worked for the Boston Herald and then the New York World, where he eventually held the position of Art Editor. He was one of the newspaper sketch artists who sketched important events for newspapers prior to…

  • Alex Niño

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    There are a number of strong communities of comics art (those of you in the expensive seats read: “graphic storytelling”) in various parts of the world, each with its own stylistic leanings. Some, like Japan, France and Belgium are more familiar to us here in the U.S. than others, like Italy, the UK, South America,…

  • Scott McCloud’s Info-comic for Google Chrome

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    In his role as one of the main analysts and thinkers on the subject of the comics art form, and the author of several widely acclaimed books on the subject in which he discusses the medium in the medium, presenting his thoughts in the form of graphic narrative; Scott McCloud has in the process become…

  • Chris Sprouse

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    Chris Sprouse is an American comics artist whose clean elegant drawing style lies somewhere between the open line styles of European comics and the more heavily rendered styles common in American mainstream comics. Sprouse is most noted for his work on Alan Moore’s Tom Strong, a comics series that combined some of the best elements…

  • Austin Briggs

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    I mentioned in my recent article on Giovanni Bellini that our perception of artists is often altered by the gravitational lens of closely associated artists, the more well known artists often eclipsing those who are less familiar. When I first encountered Austin Briggs, it was in collections of his work on the Flash Gordon newspaper…