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Category: Comics

  • Joshua Middleton

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    Joshua Middleton is a comics artist who works in mainstream American comics, but whose work feels outside of that world in many ways. Middleton draws in an open lined style, with few spotted blacks, that feels to me like it carries more influence from Japanese and European comics than major American comics. Nonetheless, after a…

  • Russ Manning

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    You might look at the comic page above and think “Oh, someone’s doing a take-off of Star Wars.”, except that you’d be wrong by almost 40 years. It’s a page from Magnus, Robot Fighter 4000 AD, a character created and drawn by comics artist Russ Manning in the early 1960’s. Magnus, Robot Fighter depicted a…

  • Malcolm McNeill

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    Malcolm McNeill is an illustrator, concept artist and comics artist based in New York. His work has appeared in publications like The New York Times, National Lampoon and titles for Marvel Comics. McNeill was collaborating with William S. Burroughs, before his death, on an “word/image novel” called Ah Pook is Here (image above, top), based,…

  • Chris Appelhans

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    I chanced on Chris Appelhans from a two-month old link from John Nevarez’s blog, did a little digging and found that he is being widely mentioned at the moment. Good thing because his own site has some yummy art but very little actual biographical or background info. Chris Appelhans is a visual development artist who,…

  • Garry Trudeau

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    When I first came across Doonesbury I was a bit put off. I just didn’t like the drawing. The figures lacked geometry, the linework seemed weak and I just didn’t get the dark circles under the eyes thing. I was ready to toss it off as another example of the declining state of newspaper comics…

  • Zita the Space Girl

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    Zita the Space Girl is a series of charming short webcomics by Ben Hatke. Hatke draws Zita with a simple, somewhat cartoony outline style reminiscent of early 20th Century newspaper comics, and occasional elaborations with atmospheric color. The home page of the site serves as a news and updates page. The Comics section has the…