Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Comics

  • Acid Keg (Steve Hogan)

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    Here’s a webcomic to get “cool” with in the hot days of August. So there’s this band, see, except that it’s just two people, but they get a new drummer, except that he’s really a secret agent looking for a cover, and they have these adventures, except that they’re more like pastiches of 60’s modern…

  • Masters of American Comics

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    In a joint exhibition at the Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey and the Jewish Museum in New York City, Masters of American Comics will present almost 600 works by some of the greats of the comics art form. The images shown here are not necessarily in the exhibit, I’ve just pulled them out as…

  • Carl Critchlow

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    I’m always fascinated to watch to watch artists develop, particularly if their style changes or evolves over time. Carl Critchlow is UK comics artist and illustrator who has a painting style that has that kind of grungy, textured look preferred by many who like science fiction and fantasy art that leans toward the grotesque and…

  • Dave’s [comic book artist] Art Nouveau Collection

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    This is a collection of Art Nouveau style images by modern comic book artists. It’s part of a larger collection called Dave’s Gallery of Comic Art, which, in turn, is part of the Digital Medusa site. Digital Medusa contains other comic art collections, including a unique collection of Artistic Interpretations of Literary Figures by comic…

  • Stuart Immonen

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    Stuart Immonen is a Canadian comics artist and cover illustrator with a crisp, confident style. His drawings can have a loose, stylized and modern feel, but are always based on an underpinning of solid draftsmanship. Immonen has done work for mainstream comics companies like Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Image Comics and the French publisher Les…

  • Jeff Jones

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    In a style that was markedly influenced by his contemporaries Roy Krenkel and Frank Frazetta, Jeff Jones created fantasy and science fiction illustration through the 1960’s and 70’s that was distinguished by strong use of color and texture and a wonderful sense of line within his painterly delineation of form. Jones was also a comics…