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  • Zip and Li’l Bit (update)

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    I found myself in a sour mood the other day and in need of some distraction and entertainment that didn’t involve gunshots, car chases, fist fights, explosions, betrayal, murder, infidelity, gratuitous nudity, scandal, deceit, lies and horror. So I turned off Fox News and looked to the list of web comics that I like to…

  • Sketchtravel

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    I don’t know about you, but I can sometimes be a little intimidated by my own sketchbooks, specifically in cases where I’ve made some drawings that I feel were particularly successful, and become reluctant to add to them, either from worry about carrying a sketchbook with drawings I like in it around and losing it,…

  • Many Faces of Batman

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    Here’s a fun little diversion. Few comic book characters have been interpreted and reinterpreted as often, or in quite the variety of was, as Batman. Created in the late 1930’s by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger, the character, originally called the Bat-Man, and at times “the Batman”, was a synthesis of other pop…

  • Spectrum 14

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    There are a number of illustration annuals, showcasing the editors’ choices for notable contemporary illustration. I look forward to several of them, The Society of Illustrator’s Annual, for example, but for many years (14 to be exact) my favorite illustration annual has been Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, edited by Cathy Fenner and…

  • Claire Wendling

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    Claire Wendling is a French comics artist, illustrator and cover artist who made a quick impact when she arrived on the scene. She won the “Alph’Art Avenir” prize while still her third year at the École des Beaux-Arts in Angouleme, and the next year began the comics series Les Lumiéres de l’Amelou with writer Christophe…

  • Rick Griffin

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    As I mentioned in my article about Peter Max, there were several less widely known artists who were actually much more instrumental in the creation of that unique blend of Op, Pop, Surrealism, Dada and Art Nouveau that came to be known as Psychedelic Art in the 1960’s. Rick Griffin was one of the major…