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Category: Pen & Ink

  • Virgil Finlay (update)

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    A recent comment from a reader on a post I did back in 2006 reminded me that I haven’t written for some time about the great science fiction, fantasy and horror illustrator Virgil Finlay. Though he worked in a variety of media, both in color and in black and white, Finlay is noted primarily for…

  • JVJ Publishing

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    Classic illustration enthusiasts were dismayed a while back to learn of the apparent demise of Bud Plant Illustrated books, a long-time collaboration between Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. and Bud Plant that was a key source of out of print books about great classic illustrators and comics artists. The good news turned out to be that Vadeboncoeur…

  • Mark Schultz: Various Drawings Volume 5

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    It’s customary for many comic book artists and illustrators to publish “sketchbooks”, collections of sketches and drawings of varying degrees of finish, which are frequently more of interest to their dedicated “must have anything” fans than to the more general readership. And then there’s Mark Schultz. Flesk Publications, a small artbook publisher who has a…

  • Al Williamson Archives: Volume 2

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    As I mentioned in my previous posts on him, I consider Al Williamson one of the greats of 20th Century comics art, and an important bridge between the traditions of the newspaper adventure strips of the first half of the century and the “Silver Age” comic books of the second. Williamson carried forward the excellence…

  • Reykjavík Center Map

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    The interactive Reykjavík Center Map, which at first glance might appear to be a Google Earth style map with computer modeled buildings in isometric perspective, is in fact a hand-illustrated image, apparently in pen and ink and watercolor. I can’t find specific credits for the art, but one of the team who worked on the…

  • Joe Fenton

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    Joe Fenton started in sculpture, moved into concept art for the film industry and then transitioned into children’s book illustration. He also creates the large scale drawings shown above, which I assume are gallery pieces. For these, Fenton works initially in a detailed graphite drawing, then works over that in ink and acrylic or gouache.…