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Category: Illustration

  • Spectrum 13

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    I should have written about this sooner, but I have such a long list of goodies to tell you about that it can take a while to get to a particular one. Spectrum 13 (Amazon link) came out a couple of months ago. This is the latest in the Spectrum yearly collections of contemporary fantastic…

  • Mick McGinty

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    In my coverage of “painting a day” blogs, I’ve been remiss in not covering painters who are painting less frequently, but basically following the same paradigm — creating small paintings from life on a regular basis, posting them to a blog and offering them for sale through eBay or other means. A nice case in…

  • Peter Ferguson

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    Peter Ferguson is a fascinating illustrator whose site contains a bounty of wonderful images, but very little biographical information. According to this article on Illustration Mundo, Ferguson’s clients include Business Week, Harper Collins, Penguin Books, The Los Angeles Times and Marvel Comics. He is represented by Three In A Box artist’s reps and you will…

  • Mark Summers

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    Mark Summers is a Canadian illustrator who works in the time-honored, but infrequently used, medium of scratchboard. (See my posts on Virgil Finlay and Elizabeth Traynor.) There is just something about the balance between black and white and the characteristics of the scratched lines that gives well-done scratchboard drawings a particular appeal. Summers is one…

  • Koji Morimoto

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    Koji Morimoto is one of my favorite animators and directors working in the field of “anime” (essentially just meaning Japanese animation). Morimoto is well respected in Japan, but not well known in the U.S., possibly because he has directed mostly shorts and short segments of films rather than feature length animations. I first noticed him…

  • Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year!

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    There are traditions that seem as though they’ve always been in place. Some of them have origins that are obscured by time, but others can be assigned to a particular time and person. The tradition of representing the new year with the image of a baby is one of the latter. In addition to helping…