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Category: Pen & Ink

  • Frazer Irving

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    Frazer Irving is a British comics artist who has done work for UK titles like 2000 AD and Judge Death as well as working for American companies like DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics and Wizards of the Coast. He cites his influences as mostly comics and British TV (“…a never ending assault of sci-fi, horror,…

  • Daren Bader

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    How’s this for a transition, from yesterday’s post about eye-placement in portraits to today’s illustration of a cyclops. (What’s that saying? “In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed, giant-tusked, white veined, maniacal, rampaging cyclops is king.”?… or something like that…) Daren Bader is a fantasy illustrator who, among other projects, does a number of…

  • Sir John Tenniel

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    John Tenniel is best known (and rightly so) for his beautiful, imaginative, definitive and absolutely perfect pen and ink illustrations for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass: And What Alice Found There. Though many illustrators have done their versions of Alice (see Lauren Harmon’s lists of Alice Illustrators, and the…

  • Dorothy Lathrop

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    At the same time it’s showcasing one of the most famous artists in America (see my previous post on Andrew Wyeth, below), the Brandywine River Museum in Pennsylvania is focusing attention on an artist who has gone largely ignored for the last 40 years. Children’s book illustrator Dorothy Lathrop was well recognized during the prime…

  • Mark Schultz

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    Mark Schultz is a comics artist best know for his creation Xenozoic Tales, otherwise known as Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, which first appeared in the eighth issue of Death Rattle, a black and white horror anthology comic from Kitchen Sink Press, in the 80’s. The story was so successful that Schultz went on to produce 14…

  • Virgil Finlay

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    Virgil Finlay was one of the greatest science fiction and fantasy artists. He started working for Weird Tales in 1935 and continued to work for that magazine and others for over 35 years. He was a prolific artist and created more than 2,500 images. Although Finlay created many color cover paintings for magazines, the majority…