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Category: Comics

  • Christie’s Comics and Illustration Auction, 14 March 2015

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    Christie’s auction house has announced an auction at their Paris location of “Bande Dessinée et Illustration” (Comics and Illustration), on 14 March, 2015. This looks to be a fantastic sale of originals by some of Europe’s foremost artists working in the field (as well as a few Americans), expertly selected by Galerie Daniel Maghen, a…

  • Eye Candy for Today: drawing by Jean “Moebius” Giraud

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    Drawing by Jean “Moebius” Giraud From the GeekDraw article marking his passing. (See also my post: Jean Giraud (Moebius) 1938-2012). I don’t know if this has a title, many Moebius drawings do not. I think this one is old enough that it was done with ink and watercolor, rather than digital. One of the things…

  • Stephanie Hans

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    French illustrator and comics artist Stephanie Hans is known in particular for her painted style comics covers and interior panel illustrations. She excels at dynamic comics covers, many for American titles, that involve women characters in forceful or emotional roles. Her website is in French, but it’s easy enough to navigate for for those who…

  • Comic Book Cartography

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    Comic Book Cartography is a blog by John Hilgart in which he features maps, charts, diagrams, infographics and — always my favorite — cut-away views from the pages of comics past. [Via Wired]

  • Jeremy Geddes

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    Jeremy Geddes is a painter and comics artist from New Zealand, now living and working in Melbourne, Australia. In his gallery work, Geddes explores space and gravity as much as light and chiaroscuro. His frequent subjects include cosmonauts, birds, and human figures, often suspended in darkness, defying gravity or apparently in violent motion crashing through…

  • Mukesh Singh (update)

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    When I wrote about Indian comics artist and illustrator Mukesh Singh back in 2011, I was only aware of his work on one major project, Grant Morrison’s 18 Days, but that was enough to impress me with his wonderfully lavish and over the top style, that combined western and Indian traditional sensibilities. Since then, Singh…