Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Comics

  • 10 years of Lines and Colors

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    Today marks the 10th anniversary of my first post on Lines and Colors, on August 22, 2005. My initial intention for the blog — which you can read more about here — is still basically the same: to introduce my readers to wonderful art and artists that they may not be familiar with, or to…

  • Jordi Lafebre

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    Spanish comics artist and illustrator Jordi Lafebre works for both the Spanish and the Franco-Belgian comics audience, the latter being the largest in Europe. He notably teamed with writer Zidrou for the highly regarded graphic albums Lydie (FR) and La Mondaine (FR) from French publisher Dargaud. I particularly admire Lafebre’s succinct but visually charming rendition…

  • Sean Phillips

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    Sean Phillips is a UK comics artist and illustrator known for his comics work and covers for titles like Fatale, Hellblazer, Criminal, Incognito, Marvel Zombies, and many others. He has worked for most of the major comics publishers in the US and UK, as well as for illustration clients like Twentieth Century Fox, Sony, Maxim…

  • Jakob Rebelka

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    Jakob Rebelka is a Polish comics artist, illustrator and concept artist for the gaming industry. His interestingly different style combines areas of complex, intertwined forms with more open spaces and applications of texture. Often he will create the sensation of forms within forms by defining surface areas with lightly applied shadows and highlights, in a…

  • Free Comic Book Day 2015

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    Tomorrow, Saturday, May 2, is Free Comic Book Day 2015. Participating comic book shops (which you can look up by zip code on this Store Locator), will be giving away a selection of special promotional comic books, designed to introduce new readers both to those individual titles and to the fun of reading comics in…

  • Joshua Middleton (update)

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    Joshua Middleton is an illustrator, comics artist, concept artist and art director who I first wrote about in 2006. At the time, he was primarily working in comics; since then, he has worked in film and television for clinents liks Universal, Lionsgate, Sony, Sony Pictures Animation and Warner Brothers; and as a cover artist for…