Category: Comics
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Drawn! (update)
A tip of the hat to Johnny at Drawn! for their recent mention of my post on Illustrators’ Visions of Santa Claus.. This seems a convenient time to mention Drawn! again. For those of you who aren’t already regular readers, the promise of a little time off over the holidays may be opportune for getting…
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Hergé at Centre Pompidou
In another clear example of how much more respected comics and cartoons are in Europe and Japan than they are here in the U.S., the Centre Pompidou (George Pompidou Center for Contemporary Art) in Paris has mounted a major retrospective of the comics work of Hergé, the creator of Tintin. Tintin, whose stories to my…
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Archie’s “new look”
OK, everybody knows Archie, right? That wonderful comics character with round bulges on top of his head to suggest large curls of bright orange teenage hair, eyes drawn with simple arcs and dots, a mere suggestion of a nose, and those bizarre checks on his head, as if he’s been sleeping on a waffle iron?…
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Jon Foster (update)
When I point you to web based resources for images from the artists I feature on lines and colors, I don’t emphasize nearly enough how limited those images are when compared to images in print. I’m second to none in my appreciation for how well images can display on screen. I was one one of…
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Jack Davis
Jack Davis, along with Will Elder and Wally Wood, formed a triumvirate of great comics artists who worked with demented genius comic writer Harvey Kurtzman to create some of the funniest and best drawn humor comics ever created, the Mad comic books from the middle of the last century. If you have never seen reprints…
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Scott McCloud Making Comics Fifty State Tour
In spite of a personal schedule that I thought would prevent it, I managed to catch Scott McCloud’s lecture at Drexel University here in Philadelphia last night. McCloud, for those of you not familiar with him, is a popular comics creator and writer, who is best known as a writer about comics, not in the…