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Category: Comics

  • Jaime Hernandez

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    Most comic creators, in keeping with the majority of popular entertainment that involves telling continuing stories with the same characters, keep a weird kind of “no-time”, in which the times and events change, but the characters neither change significantly or age. There have been exceptions, of course, like Frank King’s remarkable newspaper strip from the…

  • Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein

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    Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein was most famous for his large canvasses in which he reproduced bits of popular advertisements and, in particular, panels from comic books, complete with renderings of oversize process color dots. As much as I enjoyed seeing representations of comic panels displayed large, I always had a problem with Lichtenstein’s use of…

  • Bruce Timm (update)

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    I wrote about Bruce Timm in this post last October. It’s been almost a year and, although he still doesn’t have a personal website, there is a significant amount of additional Timm material on the web, mostly on unofficial galleries. Timm is an animator, producer and comics artist. He is most widely recognized for his…

  • Zip and Li’l Bit (Trade Loeffler)

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    Zip and Li’l Bit is a webcomic by Trade Loeffler that is simultaneously quite modern and nicely retro. By “retro” in this case, I’m referring to newspaper comics from the early part of the 20th Century (or “Golden Age”, coinciding with the Golden Age of illustration). I say that partly because of the excellent drawing,…

  • James Jean

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    James Jean is an illustrator who is widely recognized in the comic book community for his distinctive and beautifully done covers for DC Comics. Born in Taiwan, educated at the School of Visual Arts and currently living in LA, Jean has an impressive list of illustration clients including Time, Playboy, Wired, SPIN, The New York…

  • The 9/11 Report: a Graphic Adaptation

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    The 9/11 Report: a Graphic Adaptation is an an attempt to adapt the 568 page 9/11 Commission Report into graphic story (i.e. comics) format. The project is being published as webcomic by Slate, the long running online magazine. The graphic adaptation is written by Sid Jacobson and illustrated by Ernie Colón, both of whom have…