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Category: Pen & Ink

  • Dinosaur Discoveries (William Stout)

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    This post finds me simultaneously elated and frustrated. I’m elated because, like many other fans of William Stout’s paleontological illustrations, I’ve been waiting several decades for a suitable follow-up to his terrific 1981 book The Dinosaurs. (There was an expanded update, The New Dinosaurs in 2000, that was welcome, but not the same as a…

  • Urban Sketchers turns 1

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    Urban Sketchers, a terrific group sketchblog that I wrote about previously here and here, celebrated its first year anniversary this month. Urban Sketchers is devoted to drawing on location in urban environments, and it has come a long way in the year since it was established by Gabi Campanario, an illustrator and journalist based in…

  • Al Williamson’s Flash Gordon: A Lifelong Vision of the Heroic

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    Anyone who has read my previous post about comics art great Al Williamson, knows that he is high on my personal list of adventure comics artists, but I have to admit that even I was surprised by the new book from Flesk publications, Al Williamson’s Flash Gordon: A Lifelong Vision of the Heroic, that collects…

  • Al Williamson

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    Al Williamson is one of the unsung greats of comics art. Well, perhaps “undersung” is a better word (if it is a word), in that those aware of his contributions are usually great admirers, but his work is not as widely known among contemporary comics readers as it should be (not by a long shot).…

  • Hey Oscar Wilde! It’s Clobberin’ Time!

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    It’s a common practice among contemporary comics artists to do commissioned sketches or even fully realized drawings for fans and collectors. Often collectors will commission drawings by a number of artists on a single theme, and create over time a collection of themed works by an extensive and diverse list of creators. Such is the…

  • Melissa B. Tubbs

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    Long time readers of Lines and Colors will know that I have a particular fondness for pen and ink drawing; a medium with a long history and many great practitioners but one that is assigned little glamour in this day of inexpensive color reproduction and computer imagery. Melissa B. Tubbs is an Alabama based artist…