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Chris Schweizer has a blerg feeling about this
Chris Schweizer (Crogan Adventures) did a bunch of 30 Rock/Star Wars mash-ups as a commission for a couple of HeroesCon staffers and he’s happy to share them all. He even encourages you to print them out and make your own popsickle-stick puppets, which sounds like an awesome way to spend the afternoon. Many many more characters at the link.
- March 5, 2012 @ 02:00 PM by Michael May
Ben Caldwell draws Catwoman; promises more sketch-sharing
It’s difficult to type through the tears knowing that this Ben Caldwell drawing is not from a Catwoman comic I can buy with my money. What makes up for it is his promise to post more daily sketches, primarily at his Twitter account, but also – if we’re very good and eat our vegetables – on his blog. So get to following!
- February 28, 2012 @ 01:00 PM by Michael May
Na na na na na na Naifeh…Batgirl!
Never in a million years would I want to pull Ted Naifeh away from Courtney Crumrin and Polly and the Pirates for something like this, but holy crap would he be awesome on a Batgirl comic. He’s been playing with his new, color sketchbook and there’s more like that at the link.
- February 24, 2012 @ 09:00 AM by Michael May
Where’s Lando…and a bunch of other geeky folks?
This has been making the rounds (probably because it was on i09), but in case you haven’t seen it, the picture above is only a small detail from Ulises Farinas’ Star Wars mural, “Stroll on Tatooine.” Check out the high res version to find all your favorite Star Wars characters, the Doctor, Batman, Bart Simpson, folks from Oz, and probably a whole bunch of others I missed.
- February 20, 2012 @ 03:00 PM by Michael May
Ben Caldwell’s Narnia
I wish the title of this post meant that Ben Caldwell is adapting CS Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia, but it’s still pretty cool that — inspired by reading The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to his daughters — the artist posted some Narnia drawings from an old sketchbook. That’s the White Witch above, naturally, and you can see a lovely Lucy and a quick Aravis on Caldwell’s blog.
Crap. Now my mouth is watering at the thought of Caldwell adapting The Horse and His Boy.
- February 16, 2012 @ 10:00 AM by Michael May
Dan Hipp’s Mario says his hands are a little dirty
In spite of this whole mess, my coffee table needs a hardcover art book of Dan Hipp’s stuff and it needs it now.
- February 14, 2012 @ 12:00 PM by Michael May
Bookmark the Geek-Art blog
Norman Saunders' Batman trading card
I’ve been bookmarking posts from the Geek-Art blog, thinking I’d link to them one at a time, but after saving a few of them it felt less like, “Look! Cool art!” and more like stealing content. So let me just point you to some of my favorites and leave you to browse and drool on your own. The one above is from a collection of Norman Saunders’ Batman trading cards from 1966. And just so you don’t think it’s all vintage art, here’s one from Chris Gerringer’s “I Know That Feel, Bro” series.
As with all the Geek-Art posts, there are any more like that in the link. And I’ve got a couple of more favorites below the jump.
- February 13, 2012 @ 12:00 PM by Michael May
Amanda Conner’s Power Girl toilet seat cover
Jimmy Palmiotti recently posted a bunch of pictures of Amanda Conner at conventions. They’re a lot of fun, but sitting there amongst the photos of Conner with Wookiees and Black Canaries is a picture of a weird and hilarious piece of original Conner art: a Power Girl toilet seat cover on which the character discusses why she’s there and the impracticability of her costume.
There’s no real nudity, but its subject matter makes it possibly NSFW, so we’ll put the picture below the jump.
[Update: A commenter points out below that this is part of the Comic Rockstars Toilet Seat Museum at Isotope, which includes other lids from artists like Brandon Graham, Darwyn Cooke, and Ben Templesmith. Thanks, Brian.]
- February 7, 2012 @ 01:00 PM by Michael May
Monday art break: Philip Bond draws women astronauts
Sci-fi fan and space shuttle astronaut Janice Voss
Vertigo artist Philip Bond started drawing portraits of women astronauts and cosmonauts a few years ago. “Working for months at a time just penciling a comic book I started these portraits to get a bit of inking and colouring out of my system,” he writes. Although his original plan was to do one a week, his output has ended up being more irregular. No matter. He just added a few more, which is as good an excuse as any to take a look at the whole series of 25 drawings.
Via the Forbidden Planet blog.
- January 23, 2012 @ 12:00 PM by Brigid Alverson
Todd Klein and Dave Gibbons explain what ‘It Is’
It Is
Designer and letterer Todd Klein continues his artistic trek through the alphabet with another art print, as he and Watchmen co-creator Dave Gibbons team up on one called “It Is.”
“Dave has written a poem focusing on the ever-changing nature of our internal perception, that which makes up our own personal ‘I.’ I’ve designed and hand-lettered it,” Klein says on his blog. The print can be purchased from his website for $20 plus shipping.
- January 17, 2012 @ 10:00 AM by JK Parkin
Keron Grant shares exclusive art inspired by movie Chronicle
From "Heist," by Keron Grant
Superhero movies are certainly nothing new, but director Josh Trank and screenwriter Max Landis are taking a different approach to the genre. Described by some as “Paranormal Activity meets superpowers,” the “found footage” film Chronicle follows three high school friends who gain superhuman powers only to find their lives spinning out of control.
In anticipation of Chronicle‘s limited release on Feb. 3, the filmmakers asked several artists to interpret the movie’s central question: What would you do if you had superpowers?
Artist Keron Grant (Iron Man, Fantastic Four) was one of those asked, and he shared one of his illustrations exclusively with ROBOT 6. Titled “Heist,” it came about from Grant dreaming up a bank robbery if he had those powers. “Wonder what that says about me?” he said with a laugh.
Grant created several illustrations for Chronicle that will be released shortly, adding they will be “a bit more noble.” Some of the other commissioned art also cropped up recently on Bleeding Cool.
Check out Grant’s “Heist,” and the film’s trailer, below.
- January 13, 2012 @ 04:00 PM by Chris Arrant
Is this logo the new look of DC Comics?
Less than seven years after replacing its long-established “bullet” logo with a 21st-century “swoosh,” DC Comics appears ready to make another change.
Bleeding Cool noticed that just last week the company submitted two versions of a new logo to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The design, which you can see at right, depicts a D flipping back to reveal a C below; one version includes the words “DC Comics” below, the other “DC Entertainment.”
Although the “flipping” aspect of the logo may not be obvious in its static form, it’s likely designed with animation in mind, for inclusion at the beginning of movies, television shows and video games. How that design might translate to comics remains to be seen.
Comic Book Resources has contacted DC for comment but received no response.
The publisher’s current logo debuted in May 2005 as part of an effort to emphasize the DC brand across all media. Designed by Josh Beatman of Brainchild Studios, the “swoosh” replaced the Milton Glaser-created “bullet” the company had used in one form or another since 1977.
- January 13, 2012 @ 02:00 PM by Kevin Melrose
Happy Holidays from Robot 6
from Matthew Petz
It’s Christmas Eve, and we’re winding down here at Robot 6 to go spend time with family and friends. Before heading off to celebrate, though, you’ll find a collection of holiday-themed links after the jump, along with this year’s collection of holiday cards we received.
On behalf of all of Robot 6, have a great holiday and stay safe. We’ll see you next week.
(Above: a Christmas showdown by Matthew Petz)
- December 24, 2011 @ 12:00 PM by JK Parkin
Ilias Kyriazis’ merry marching Marvel society
The Marvel 100
Earlier this month artist Ilias Kyriazis shared a 52-inch long image of his favorite DC characters that was filled with all sorts of fun details.
Well, Ilias is back, this time with his top 100 favorite Marvel characters and with the same level of detail and humor displayed in the DC image. For instance, in the sequence up top, you’ll see multiple Madroxes, one being eaten by Venom, who is having a bad reaction to Banshee’s sonic scream. You’ve also got Nightcrawler “bamfing” in for a moment before he lands at No. 3 on the list. Elsewhere you’ll see Silver Surfer stealing the Infinity Gems from Thanos, Dead Girl showing up in two halves and Mystique bringing a little DC flavor to the mix.
You can see it in its entirety over at zoom.it, which will let you scroll through it from 100 on.
- December 23, 2011 @ 12:00 PM by JK Parkin
Comics A.M. | More on Stuck in the Middle library challenge
Stuck in the Middle
Libraries | An editorial in the Lewiston, Maine, newspaper praises a local school board’s decision last week to leave the 2007 comics anthology Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age in the Buckfield Junior-Senior High School library following a parent’s complaints about “objectionable sexual and language references”: “American culture can be graphically sexual and explicitly foul and it’s important that young people learn how to navigate that world in a responsible way. The best possible way, of course, is for parents to steer their children through that process, but not every parent does and many children are left adrift. So, the next-better place to learn is the school library, where a responsible adult can help educate children about their hormone-charged emerging feelings in a confusingly sensual culture.” [Sun Journal]
Business | Wizard magazine founder Gareb Shamus, who resigned earlier this month as president and chief executive officer of Wizard World Inc., will sell most of his shares in the company to his successor, who’s expected to be named next month. [Bleeding Cool]
- December 19, 2011 @ 06:55 AM by Brigid Alverson and JK Parkin