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Inkwell Awards to be presented at Wizard’s New England Comic Con
Inkwell Hall-of-Famer Joe Sinnott
After two years of posting their award winners on their website, the Inkwell Awards — which recognize inkers for “their quality work and contribution to the comic book industry and sequential art process” have found a venue to present their awards live. This year they will present their awards at the New England Comic Con in Boston Oct. 1-3.
The award recipients will be presented their trophies and then take part in a Q&A session with fans. Voting for the awards will begin in August.
“Previously the voting has taken place in June but due to the later in the year date of the show event, the ballot will be posted at the site on Aug. 1, so please bookmark the address”, said Bob Almond, founder and director of the Inkwell Awards. “There will be a lot of new developments coming from us this year and having Wizard’s support will be integral to increasing the awareness and exposure of these and future developments of the organization.”
For more information on the awards and to view previous winners, be sure to check out their website.
- March 4, 2010 @ 12:30 PM by JK Parkin
Straight for the art | What is Pood?
by Henrik Rehr
Jim Rugg, Joe Infurnani, Geoff Grogan and several other artists have formed Pood, a new … something. Actually, they’re having a contest now to decide what exactly “pood” is, so head over there and leave your guess.
- February 18, 2010 @ 10:38 AM by JK Parkin
‘He’s punched a dinosaur square in the face. What have you done for your country?’
by Evan Shaner
Over at the relatively new art blog Comic Twart, the various artists who contribute have spent the week drawing DC’s G.I. Robot character, and the results have been pretty awesome. Above is Evan Shaner’s rendition, but head over there to get a look at everyone else’s.
- February 11, 2010 @ 12:15 PM by JK Parkin
Straight for the art | Emerald City’s Monsters & Dames charity art book art
by Livio Ramondelli
The Emerald City Comicon, scheduled for March 13-14 in Seattle, is once again putting together a charity art book featuring pin-ups of “Monsters & Dames” by some of its very impressive guest list. Proceeds from the book benefit the Seattle Children’s Hospital.
Over on Gelatometti, several attendees have been posting their contributions, including Livio Ramondelli (above), Carlos D’Anda and Oliver Nome, among others. Go check’em out.
- February 9, 2010 @ 11:20 AM by JK Parkin
Straight for the art | Chris Uminga’s superhero art
Colossus by Chris Uminga
Reader David Bedard pointed us to this post on Oculoid with several cool superhero images by artist Chris Uminga. You can also check out Uminga’s website here and his deviantART site here.
- February 9, 2010 @ 09:20 AM by JK Parkin
Straight for the art | Glen Brogan’s White Violin
by Glen Brogan
Artist Glen Brogan shares his rendition of the White Violin, from Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá’s Umbrella Academy.
“…the brilliance of her design is so iconic that it’s hard to not want to draw her,” he said on his blog. “I’m sure even if many of you haven’t read the books you’ve seen her image looking at you from a comic store shelf and found it hard not to think ‘What is that?’ Her design makes the comic look like something that has already long been established, even when it was brand new, so I give many kudos to the artist and writer for that.”
Check out more of Glen’s artwork on his site and on the Autumn Society blog.
- February 5, 2010 @ 10:00 AM by JK Parkin
Straight for the art | Eclectic Wrecks
by Declan Shalvey
The Eclectic Micks are a group of Irish comic artists who have set up a group sketch blog featuring all kinds of cool artwork. And this week, with the launch of IDW’s new Tranformers miniseries, Last Stand of the Wreckers (collective member Nick Roche draws the series), they’ve temporarily changed their name to Eclectic Wrecks and are running sketches of characters from the series. If you’re into the Transformers, go check’em out.
- January 27, 2010 @ 02:00 PM by JK Parkin
Straight for the art | He-Man & the Masters of the Universe art show
Skeletor by Kiersten Essenpreis
By the Power of Grayskull! Los Angeles’ Gallery 1988 has the power! Beginning tomorrow, Friday January 8, they’re hosting “Under the Influence: He-Man and the Masters of the Universe,” an art show featuring various reinterpretations of my all-time favorite action-figure/cartoon line ever. You can check out a Snake Mountain-sized pile of art for the show here and here.
(Via ToyFare)
- January 7, 2010 @ 11:00 AM by Sean T. Collins
Straight for the art | Florian Satzinger’s blog
by Florian Satzinger
Mark Andrew Smith linked to this on Facebook, so big props to him for pointing me to Paperwalker, the blog of artist Florian Satzinger. Satzinger is a production designer, character designer and writer for S&H Features; among other projects, he’s working on a graphic novel called StarDucks.
There’s a lot of really cool stuff at his blog, including the above piece and information on how the StarDucks saved Christmas, so go check it out.
- December 23, 2009 @ 10:50 AM by JK Parkin
Straight for the art | ComicsAlliance and Periscope’s 12 Days of Christmas
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtledoves
AOL’s ComicsAlliance blog has teamed up with the creators at Periscope Studios this holiday season to reimagine the classic Christmas carol “The 12 Days of Christmas.”
“Every day until the 25th, we’ll be posting a new illustration from a comics creator at Periscope Studio that reinterprets the days of the traditional carol as comic book parodies,” writes Laura Hudson. Today’s post features the above image by Andreas Schuster — which is kind of an “Oh my god, are they really doing what I think they’re doing?” moment — while yesterday’s featured Ben Bates replacing the fabled partridge with another type of bird. Be sure to check back between now and Christmas to see what the rest of the Periscope crew comes up with.
- December 16, 2009 @ 08:52 AM by JK Parkin
Robot 6 Q&A | Andi Ewington on Forty-Five
Forty-Five
If you found out your kid was possibly going to be born with super powers, you’d probably want to do a little research into what exactly that meant. For fictional journalist James Stanley, that means conducting 45 different interviews about super powers and how they’ve changed the lives of the people who have them.
This December Com.X is publishing an illustrated book that collects those 45 interviews called, naturally Forty-Five. Written by Andi Ewington, each interview includes an accompanying page of art illustrated by a different artist, with no “predetermined brief” given — just the written page as guidance. Artists for the project include Jock, Fiona Staples, Liam Sharp, Dan Brereton and many more.
My thanks to Andi, who was kind enough to share some additional details on the book.
- November 18, 2009 @ 12:51 PM by JK Parkin
Straight for the art | Surf’n'turf Nazis must die
by D.C. Stuelpner
Namor, eat your heart out … when the threat of Nazism spreads into the Seven Seas, D.C. Stuelpner shows who the right man is for the job.
- November 16, 2009 @ 10:01 AM by JK Parkin
Straight for the art | Sam Hiti’s Death-Day
from Death Day
Saw this on Paul Pope’s Twitter feed … artist Sam Hiti has kicked off a webcomic called Death-Day, as well as an accompanying blog. Go check it out.
- November 3, 2009 @ 02:22 PM by JK Parkin
Straight for the art | Kelley Jones’ Great Pumpkin
Great Pumpkin by Kelley Jones
Zack Smith, who writes for Newsarama and Independent Weekly, sent over this awesome Great Pumpkin art that Kelley Jones drew for him in 2001. Marc McKenzie colored it.
“It was for a humor piece I wrote featuring the by-now-old gag of the Pumpkin being a demon and wreaking havoc,” Smith said in an email. “The only gags I recall as semi-entertaining were Linus getting sucked through a time vortex and winding up in ‘Army of Linus,’ and a bit where the Pumpkin caused horrible things to happen in other comic strips (Dolly in THE FAMILY CIRCUS needs an exorcist to get rid of ‘Not Me,’ FUNKY WINKERBEAN is…the exact same depressing strip it always is). I was 21. It seemed funny at the time.”
Thanks for sending it over, Zack!
- October 30, 2009 @ 09:20 AM by JK Parkin
Straight for the art | Sean Murphy’s Wolverine Alphabet (and more)
Sean Murphy's Wolverine ABCs
As we noted the other day, Vertigo has expanded the upcoming Grant Morrison/Sean Murphy series Joe the Barbarian from six issues to eight. Looking at Murphy’s deviantart account, it’s not hard to see why. Among the visual delights therein are letters A through H of a Wolverine Alphabet, featuring the Ol’ Canucklehead and friends kickin’ it Sesame Street style. (Unsurprisingly, the set has Marvel editors beating a path to the DC-exclusive artist’s door.)
The gallery also includes page after luscious page of Murphy’s work on Hellblazer, a few Joe the Barbarian preview pages, and random other goodies, from a recreation of the poster for Easy Rider starring Wolverine and Banshee in place of Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda to the below image of all of Murphy’s childhood heroes one one team. No wonder Vertigo veterans Paul Pope, Cameron Stewart, and Jock have all been tweeting Murphy’s praises.
We're guessing Einstein's the team leader
- October 8, 2009 @ 03:12 PM by Sean T. Collins