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Category: Comics

  • Chris Ware: On Cartooning

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    A recent post on kottke.org reminded me of this interview with Chris Ware (who I profiled in February ’06) on the PBS site, as part of their features accompanying Tintin and I, their program last july on Hergé (who I profiled at the time and also mentioned in reference to the major exhibition at the…

  • Flight 4 preview

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    For those of you who think that “comics” = pointlessly endless stories of musclebound, spandex-clad goons, grimacing as if terminally constipated while bludgeoning one another senseless, I once again offer the antidote and alternative of the Flight anthologies of comics stories. I like to emphasize the release of these particular books, not only because they’re…

  • Steve Canyon original art

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    Most art done specifically for reproduction, whether it’s illustration, cartoons or comics, is drawn or painted at a different size than the printed piece, usually a bit larger. In the case of American comic books, it’s ordinarily about 1 1/2 times the printed size, but for newspaper strips it’s often 2 x the printed size…

  • Webcomics update

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    Here’s an update on some webcomics that I’ve mentioned previously, some quite a while ago, on lines and colors. Copper Kazu Kibuishi’s delightful Copper was the first webcomic I profiled on lines and colors, and one of my very first posts, I also wrote an update about his terrific post about his creative process for…

  • Tommy Lee Edwards

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    Tommy Lee Edwards is an illustrator, comics artist and visual development artist who employs a delightful mixture of styles and approaches in the service of his wide mix of projects. His clients include gaming companies, the major comics houses, book publishers and film industry giants like Dreamworks and Lucasfilm in addition to commercial entities like…

  • Khang Le

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    Khang Le is a concept artist working in the gaming industry. Aside from that I know very little. The “About” section of his site is another of the many I’ve encountered in which the information about the artist is “Coming soon”. I do know that, in addition to this concept work, he has been a…