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Category: Comics

  • Ovi Nedelcu

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    Ovi Nedelcu is a character designer and stroyboard artist for animated film. He is currently working for Laika, an animation studio owned by Phil Knight, the co-founder and Chairman of Nike, on a new short feature called Coraline, which in turn is based on a novella by Neil Gaiman, who is known for his writing…

  • Mick (Mike) McMahon

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    Michael (Mick or Mike) McMahon is a British comics artist who was influential in hammering out the look and feel of Judge Dredd, as well as working on a number of other important characters for 2000AD. McMahon took over on Dredd from Carlos Ezquerra, initially mimicking his style at the editor’s request, but soon putting…

  • Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels

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    It’s often mentioned that comics, or “graphic storytelling” is the only art form in which words and pictures are blended together in an integral way to tell a story. I also like to point out that comics is the only visual medium (compared, for example, to film or video) in which the reader/viewer can choose…

  • Craig Phillips

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    So I was on Netdiver (see yesterday’s post) and who comes up as the first illustrator on the first page in the Illustration category but Craig Phillips, a terrific illustrator from New South Wales in Australia. Phillips works in a pleasing line and color style that carries some of the fresh, open feeling of European…

  • Cover Browser

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    Covers of comic books, pulp magazines, and for that matter, magazines and books of any kind, have one purpose — to make you pick that sucker up and run home with it in your sweaty hands after plunking down your hard earned dimes. Cover art, particularly from the lower part of the periodical pool, can…

  • Rian Hughes

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    Rian Hughes is a British comics artist, illustrator, graphic designer and type designer. As a comics artist he became known for his work on Dare,, an updated version of Dan Dare, written by Grant Morrison and serialized in Revolver; as well as Robo-Hunter and number of other features for 2000AD and other titles. At a…