Category: Comics
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Zuda Comics (update)
When I first wrote about Zuda Comics back in July, DC Comics’ venture into creating an online comics community and developing a commercial line from it was barely more than a web page and a promise. In the intervening time, however, the promise has begun to fill out, and there is now a substantial presence,…
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Chris Ware – The Acme Novelty Date Book Volume Two
Chris Ware, who I wrote about here and here, has just released The Acme Novelty Date Book, Volume Two: 1995-2000. For those of you who are only familiar with Ware’s precise, carefully controlled marvels of precision comic art, these two volumes are something else altogether. Basically they’re sketchbooks, not that different in essence from sketchbooks…
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Gareth Hinds
I have to admit that I’m becoming a little tired of movie CGI, particularly when used with motion capture to portray fake humans; so I haven’t bothered to see the Robert Zemeckis Hollywoodization of the classic Northern European epic poem Beowulf. Apparently millions of people who just fine with movies full of fake actors, probably…
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Arthur Adams
Art Adams first grabbed the attention of comic art fans with his work on the Marvel Comics’ mini-series Long Shot in the mid-80’s. He went on to work on major titles like X-Men and Fantastic Four for Marvel, as well as numerous titles for the other major American comic book publishers. In particular, he became…
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Gerry Mooney
Back in the mid to late 90’s, when the webcomics landscape looked more like an empty plain dotted with tiny houses than today’s bustling metropolis, one of those houses was an online comic called Bugbots: The Mansect Rebellion. Created by husband and wife team Gerry and Viki Mooney, the strip had a fun, brash, 60’s…
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Little Sammy Sneeze
It is sometimes pointed out that Americans have contributed two original art forms to the culture of the world, jazz and comic strips. Though both have precedents, they achieved the state for which they are identified here in the U.S. One of the earliest pioneers of the latter is still one of its all time…