Category: Comics
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Wally Wood
This is kind of a special post for me so I may ramble on a bit. Wally Wood’s dazzling, lurid, bizarre, and wonderful comic art is what made me want to draw comics. When I was 10 or so, I came across some paperback reprints of the E.C. Mad comics from the 1950’s. These irreverent,…
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Jake Parker
Jake Parker (no relation to yours truly) is an illustrator and comic book artist living in New York. He as done conceptual art and illustrations for companies like Disney, Warner Brothers and Wizards of the Coast. He has also done a number of comic stories, including contributions to Flight VOL1 and VOL 2. The “Comics”…
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Christopher Moeller
Christopher Moeller is an illustrator and comics artist who is one of the foremost proponents of fully-painted comics art. Rather than the traditional um… lines and colors format, each panel is a painted image. Many painted-comics artists use watercolor (see my post about Alex Ross), but Moeller uses an opaque medium (it looks like acrylic…
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Sam & Max (Steve Purcell)
They’re back! If you’re familiar with Sam & Max, Steve Purcell’s delightfully demented pair of vaguely animal-like things, you’ll be thrilled to your cynical little toes that there is a new Sam & Max interactive webcomic on the Telltale Games site. There’s only one page up at the moment, but get in on the ground…
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J. O. Ladrönn
I’m not exactly sure why someone would want to draw a sci-fi comic with an anthropomorphic hippopotamus in a trench coat as a lead character, but Mexican comics artist J. O. Ladrönn sure does a bang-up job of it. In addition to that project, (HipFlask, written by ComicCraft’s Richard Starkings and Joe Casey), Ladrönn has…
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Shutterbug Follies
Shutterbug Follies is Jason Little’s nicely done comic about a photo-finishing technician in NYC who is nosy about the titillating photos that happen to pass through her hands, particularly when one of them seems to show evidence of a murder. You can read the first 13 episodes online. The entire story is available from Random…