Category: Comics
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The Venice Chronicles (Enrico Casarosa)
I’ve mentioned Enrico Casarosa before. A multi-facetied artist who does storyboards for Pixar, but is also a character designer, comics artist, designer, illustrator, blogger and dedicated sketcher. Casarosa is the instigator of the Sketchcrawl drawing events. Last summer Casarosa took a trip to Veince, that most magical of Italian cities, and instead of just making…
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Nick Bertozzi
One of the great things about the burgeoning independent comics scene here in the U.S. is that a wider readership is beginning to see beyond the narrow cliché of “comics = superheroes” that has dominated the public’s general perception of what comics are, and open their eyes to some of the wider possibilities of the…
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Scott McKowen
Well, my friends, here is yet another tantalizingly different artist about whom I could find very little information without having to dig. I first encountered Scott McKowen’s work in the form of his wonderful set of covers for the Marvel Comics limited series 1602 (in which Marvel superheroes are envisioned in that time period, and…
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Art Out Loud 5
Art Out Loud 5 is the latest in a series of in-person painting and illustration technique demos held at the Society of Illustrators in New York. The sessions have been arranged by Irene Gallo, Art Director at Tor/Forge Books and the author of The Art Department blog, and noted illustrator Daniel Dos Santos. These are…
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Ed “Big Daddy” Roth
At some point in my impressionable youth, I was exposed to certain “corrupting influences” that twisted my little brain into a fevered pop culture pretzel and made me not only want draw comics and cartoons, but draw outrageous and weird comics and cartoons. One was my discovery of paperback reprints of E.C. Mad comics from…
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How Not to Display Your Artwork on the Web
In the thirteen years I’ve been on the web, twelve of which I’ve spent doing professional web site design, and the last two of which have sent me to hundreds of artists’ web sites, I’ve come to the inevitable conclusion that the thing artists want most when placing their art on the web is for…