By: John,
on 11/24/2010
Javier Olivares’s animated take on Batman? Yes please!
This is only a promo for the movie airing on Spanish television, but would love to see an entire Batman series or film designed by Olivares.
Check out Javier’s blog.
By: John,
on 11/24/2010
Gary Taxali unveils a collection of classic wooden toys branded with his menagerie of characters, and designed to perfection.
Kevin Dart got married at the La Brea Tar Pits. This was his wedding invitation.
Awesome midcentury children’s book illustrations by Cliff Roberts on the blog: We Too Were Children, Mr. Barrie: CLIFF ROBERTS’S CHILDREN’S BOOKS (via Today’s Inspiration).
By: John,
on 11/22/2010
“It Gets Better” — Love, Pixar (via PixGetsBetter) A message of hope from the employees at Pixar Animation Studios.
One of us posted this on our Twitter feed, and I can’t help but add it here too. I watched this and got really choked up, same as any time I watch any of the It Gets Better testimonials, because years ago I also considered suicide as a closeted teen.
So I’d like to issue a call of action to my fellow LGBT illustrators, comic creators, designers, and artists: let’s make our contribution to this project too. Get in touch, let’s make it happen. (Especially if you volunteer to edit the videos together!)
— Luc
By: John,
on 11/22/2010
Amiga - Disney Animation Studio (1990)
I spent countless hours using this software as a kid. It breaks my heart I have none of the animation I created using it, or the work I created with Autodesk Animator, the other piece of software that kept me out of daylight on weekends.
By: John,
on 11/22/2010
The iPad edition of Oliver Jeffers’s The Heart and the Bottle looks intriguing. I’m skeptical of picture books being treated with gimmicky animation, but this looks great.
By: John,
on 11/22/2010
“The points below are what I’ve learned doing indie comics as a career. There’s always room for art for art’s sake, for hobbyism, but these are the lessons I’ve learned for those who want to escape that prevailing mood.” John Allison: “A scene that celebrates itself has nothing to celebrate” Wonderfully simple, brutally sensible advice from web comic creator John Allison (Bad Machinery, Scary Go Round): Move, Grow up, and Run your business like a business. We don’t hear nearly enough frank advice like this in our fields. Good stuff.
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By: John,
on 11/22/2010
Randy Glass has updated his website, which now includes even more of his famous “hedcuts” for the Wall Street Journal. What continues to amaze about Randy’s work is not just the incredible likenesses he’s able to achieve, but that he does it all freehand with pen and ink, and no tracing.
His site’s in Flash, and a little inconvenient to navigate, but worth the trip if you’re a fan of his work.
By: John,
on 11/22/2010
John Kenn’s drawings on Post-It Notes continue to awe and inspire.
By: John,
on 11/22/2010
Gabby Schulz reflects on his recent trip to Montreal.
Codehunters was one of the first short films I remember that successfully integrated CG characters with a 2D, illustrative look. In my opinion. Directed by Ben Hibon. He did the Tale of the Deathly Hallows animated segment in the new Harry Potter film.
Codehunters (via codehuntersMTV)
Fred Blunt’s work is fantastic… like really, really wonderful. Be sure to check out his flickr stream and blog.
Children’s book author Jarrett Krosoczka will be holding an art auction from November 29- December 9. All proceeds go towards The Joe and Shirl Scholarship which provides needy kids with tuition for art lessons at the Worcester Art Museum. More information can be found here.
The cover from the Best American Comics of 2010 anthology. By the irrepressible Michael Cho.
I just noticed that - if you look closely - you can see our angry pea-coated hero carrying the Tatsumi autobiography, A Drifting Life.
By: John,
on 11/19/2010
Kyle T. Webster’s blog of elegant figure drawing, The Daily Figure, extends its target from curvy women to the denizens of the Star Wars Universe.
By: John,
on 11/19/2010
One of my favourite Peanuts strips. Here, without even knowing it, Schulz explains his own strip’s popularity.
By: John,
on 11/19/2010
I can’t get enough of these Russian Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles books. These obviously unlicensed stories have the Turtles squaring off against all sorts of monsters, demons, aliens, and unlikely foes.
But my favourites are the frequent run-ins with Batman. Oh, and that time they defeated the Predator.
By: John,
on 11/19/2010
This is a brilliant idea — Kevin Cornell, Matt Sutter, and Peter Dalkner have started a tag-team webcomic called Birthday Street.
The concept is similiar to Matt and Kevin’s also-brilliant The Superest, in which each cartoon is a direct reaction to the one that followed.
It’s like a jam comic that trades hands every page rather than every panel.
This fabulous 2011 calendar by Alex Griendling can be yours for only $20, but they’re only being printed in small batches. Act fast!
This calendar takes 95 time travel occurrences and places them on a single timeline. Watch thousands of years of time travel take place over the course of 12 months! Includes favorites such as Back to the Future, Terminator, LOST and Chrono Trigger. (via 2011 Time Traveler’s Calendar : The Design Work of Alex Griendling)
A self portrait of sorts. My friend took some really lovely photos of me recently, so I used one for reference.
Samantha Kallis: confident lines, bold use of colour, and a Tumblr full of fabulous drawings.
By: John,
on 11/18/2010
Matt Stevens interprets the number 17
It took me a while to get all of them. I think I like “Party” best, though “Dolly” gave me the biggest chuckle when I finally figured it out. I ain’t too bright about doing things.
I’m liking the noir-like brushstrokes that Kyle T. Webster uses for some of his editorial work. He has a nice alternate cover for The New Yorker that hits pretty close to home, too.
By: John,
on 11/18/2010
A fun little comics anthology about a sword, now online. It’s the work of one of my favourite bunch of cartoonists — the guys at One Percent Press — JP Coovert, Stephen Floyd, James Hindle, Alexis Frederick-Frost, and Joe Lambert.
