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Category: Comics

  • Antonio Javier Caparo

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    Antonio Caparo is a Cuban born illustrator currently living and working in Toronto, Canada. Caparo studied graphic design at the High Institute of Design in Havana and devoted much of his early career to design, but gradually sifted his focus to illustration. He has a muscular, energetic style that uses texture and tonal contrast to…

  • John Watkiss

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    John Watkiss has created visual development art for films like Disney’s Tarzan, Treasure Planet, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Fantasia 2000, Skycaptain and the World of Tomorrow and the proposed Sandman. In his movie related career he has done work for Twentieth Century Fox, Dreamworks, Francis Ford Coppola and Ridley Scott Associates. Watkiss has also had…

  • Philadelphia City Paper Comic Competition

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    For those who would like a little exposure for their comics in the Philadelphia area, Philadelphia City Paper has posted an open invitation for cartoonists and illustrators to submit their comics for the weekly paper’s Second Annual Comics Issue. All submissions will be posted on the paper’s web site, and editors picks will be published…

  • The Prince Valiant Page – Gary Gianni

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    You will often hear the phrase “big shoes to fill” applied to the task of filling a role formerly held by someone whose accomplishments were significant and difficult to achieve. Illustrator and comics artist Gary Gianni put on some big shoes when he stepped into the role of illustrator for Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant newspaper…

  • Jeff Smith: Bone and Beyond

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    I’m always particularly pleased when the art establishment of museums and traditional galleries shakes itself out of its self-imposed blindness and recognizes comics (“graphic narrative”) as the art form it is; so I was pleased to learn that the work of comics artist Jeff Smith, creator of the highly regarded series Bone, is featured in…

  • The Undersea Adventures of Capt’n Eli (Jay Piscopo)

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    The Undersea Adventures of Capt’n Eli is a reminder of the fun and unpretentious adventure comics of the “Silver Age” (1960’s an 70’s) and before, in this case updated with a bit of anime flavor in the way outline and flat color drawings of the characters are set against rendered and 3-D backgrounds. Drawn and…