Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Comics

  • R. Kikuo Johnson

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    Originally from Hawaii, R. Kikuo Johnson is an illustrator and comics artist based in Brooklyn, New York. His illustration clients include Apple, Random House, Penguin Books, Marvel Comics, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal and the New York times, among others. Johnson maybe best known for his wonderful covers for The New Yorker.…

  • David Nakayama

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    David Nakayama is a free lance illustrator, concept artist and illustrator. He is known in particular for his cover art for Marvel Comics, as well as work for DC Comics, Fantasy Flight Games, Upper Deck and others. Nakayama’s comics covers combine the fun, over-the-top energy and sensationalism characteristic of mainstream American comics with firm draftsmanship…

  • Yoshitaka Amano

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    Yoshitaka Amano is a Japanese illustrator, concept artist, and designer of scenes, characters and costumes for film and gaming. In addition, Amano is known for his work for both Japanese and American comics, as well as his gallery art. His style blends influences from Japanese woodblock prints, American and European comics and pop culture as…

  • Eye candy for Today: Jean Giraud illustration

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    Mystere Montrouge, plate 10, Jean Giraud This is an image from a portfolio of prints published in 2001 by Jean (Moebius) Giraud. Dreamlike, inventive and striking, it’s yet another wonderful example of his line and color approach, without the spotted blacks and feathering characteristic of American comics art. Note the subtle gradations in the face…

  • Austin Briggs, The Consumate Illustrator

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    I initially encountered the work of Austin Briggs (see my previous post) in his role as a comics artist — working as an assistant to the great Alex Raymond, and eventually ghosting Raymond’s Flash Gordon newspaper strip, and taking over in a credited role on Secret Agent X-9. Briggs’ work in comics was a sideline,…

  • Jean-Pierre Gibrat

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    Jean-Pierre Gibrat is a French comics artist and writer noted for his graphic historical novels set during wartimes in France. He gained the attention of American readers of European comics with the translated version of his 2002-2005 graphic novel, Flight of the Raven, set in Paris during the WWII occupation. The book is beautiful, filled…