Archive for July, 2011
Comic-Clone Reading List, Part V
This year’s Comic Clone Reading List comes to a close with a series that has something for everyone: mortality, morality, monsters, mythology, magic, drama, fantasy, fine art, history, religion, romance, superheroes, horror, and more. Sandman, written by Neil Gaiman with art by an endless parade of artists, is the story of Morpheus, an ageless, immortal [...]
Posted: July 24th, 2011 under artists.
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Comic-Clone Reading List, Part IIII
Neither Comic-Con nor this Comic-Clone reading list are all about superheros or high seas shenanigans. Some of the very best comics describe the quiet moments and deep feelings shared between two people. This may be the best of those. Blankets, written and drawn by Craig Thompson, is the memoir of a sensitive young artist struggling [...]
Posted: July 23rd, 2011 under artists.
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Comic-Clone Reading List, Part III
Specially picked for you IF readers, this third selection of the Comic-Clone Reading List represents – in some ways – an artist’s dream come true. Isaac the Pirate, written and drawn by the magnificent Christophe Blain, tells the ongoing story of a painter named Isaac who is shanghaied into the service of an ambitious pirate [...]
Posted: July 22nd, 2011 under artists.
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Comic-Clone Reading List, Part II
Tonight in San Diego and tomorrow everywhere, Marvel Studios releases its latest supermovie, Captain America: The First Avenger. For those of you who can’t make it to San Diego and those of you who want to scoff and say “The book was better.” Here it is: The Ultimates, written by Mark Millar and penciled by [...]
Posted: July 21st, 2011 under artists.
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Comic-Clone Reading List, Part I
Every year for the past eight years, my wife and I have enjoyed the San Diego Comic-Con whether we could attend the event or not. This year, for those of you who don’t want to get lost in a convention hall full of sweaty fanboys, I have collected a reading list of comics in which [...]
Posted: July 20th, 2011 under artists.
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The Power, The Fury, The Blog
Mark Todd recently launched a new website devoted to his Marvel comics mash-up paintings. PowerFury.com includes a comprehensive collection of Mark’s new work, a blog, and peeks at his shows (including his most recent one at La Luz de Jesus here in L.A.). Just in time for the Fourth of the July, the most recent [...]
Posted: July 4th, 2011 under artists.
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