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Category: Comics

  • Electric Sheep Comix (Patrick Farley)

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    Electric Sheep Comix is a blanket title for a site featuring several webcomics by Patrick Farley. (“Electric Sheep” comes from the title of the Phillip K. Dick novel, Do androids Dream of Electric Sheep, from which the movie Blade Runner was adapted.) Electric Sheep Comix includes three main comics and several older ones. Some of…

  • Barry Windsor-Smith

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    Barry Windsor-Smith is a British comic book artist and illustrator who initially made a name for himself in American comics with his art for the Marvel Comics’ adaptations of Robert E. Howard’s Conan stories in the 1970’s. Windsor-Smith (often simply referred to in print as “BWS”) was heavily influenced by the art of the Pre-Raphaelites…

  • Enki Bilal

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    Enki Bilal is one of the major figures in European comic art. Bilal was born in Yugoslavia (now Serbia), but has spent most of his life in France. His comics albums (what we misname here as “graphic novels”), are among the most popular and most respected in Europe. He sometimes writes his own stories and…

  • Frank Cho (Liberty Meadows)

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    Frank Cho is a comics artist and illustrator best known as the creator of the Liberty Meadows newspaper comic strip, one of the best drawn syndicated strips in recent years. Cho’s wonderfully precise pen and ink work shows the influence of great pen and ink illustrators like Gibson, Cole and Booth and comics artists like…

  • Zot! Online: “Hearts and Minds”
    (Scott McCloud)

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    You’ll notice that this post is about a specific online comic, not Scott McCloud in general. (That’s a post for another day.) If you’re interested in comics and you’re not familiar with Scott McCloud (presumably because you’ve been living in a yurt somewhere on the Mongolian steppes), start with Understanding Comics and then go to…

  • Winsor McCay

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    I must have been a good boy this year, because Santa brought me a very nice treat indeed: a copy of Little Nemo in Slumberland – So many Splendid Sundays. This is a wonderful collection of 100 examples of one of the most beautiful comics ever created. There are other collections of Little Nemo pages,…