Category: Comics
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Steve Rude
Many modern comic book artists pride themselves on throwing away what’s come before. A few, however, show their respect for tradition and display the influence of the great comics artists who showed us all how it’s done. Steve Rude is a comic book artist and illustrator who has reaped the benefit of respect for tradition.…
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Bruce Timm
Bruce Timm is an animator, character designer and comics artist, best known for his work on Batman Adventures and the other DC Comics animated TV series. In the course of developing those shows he helped define the standards for modern television adventure/super-hero cartoons. He has also done a cool series of comic books with Paul…
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Alex Ross
Ask comics fans about Alex Ross and you’ll get mixed but strong opinions. Many think his highly rendered watercolor and gouache comic illustrations “inappropriate” for comics storytelling, others find his work exciting and beautiful. I fall into the latter camp and have a tremendous respect for his water media technique. I also have no problem…
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Artistic Interpretation of Literary Figures
This is an individual’s collection of art, mostly by comics artists, on the theme of lilterary figures. It includes drawings and paintings that offer the artist’s interpretation of literary characters, as well as portraits of writers (and occasionally artists). (The image shown is a portrait of Dante Gabriel Rosetti by Barry Windsor Smith.) The site…
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Kevin Nowlan
Lots of good-sized reproductions of Superman, Batman and Jack B. Quick art by this superb comics draughtsman. Click into Original Art for Sale to see some full pages of his inks over others’ pencils.
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War of the Worlds webcomic
Dark Horse Comics is publishing this webcomic adaptation of the H.G. Wells’ novel (not the recent movie), by Ian Edginton and an artist who goes by the name of D’Israeli. The art (particuarly the color) is wonderful. Dark horse publishes a new page on Fridays. Edginton and D’Isreali also created Kingdom of the Wicked and…