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1. Nice Art: Kyle Baker’s variant cover for Black Panther #3 AND FREE COMICS

img_1151-1.jpg   Via this month’s solicits. I had the pleasure of hanging out with Kyle a bit and interviewing him for an upcoming “More to come” podcast. Circuit Breaker, his long brewing series written by Kevin McCarthy for Image is just out, and Baker is reprinting his graphic novels in a handy smaller size. You can […]

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2. Image in March: Circuit Breakers, The Discipline and Power Lines debut

CircuitBreaker_CoverImage’s March solicitations are out, and in addition to the usual goodies like Saga, Injection, No Mercy and many many more a few news series and OGNs are debuting: • Circuit Breakers, a long in the making five issue series by Kevin McCarthy with art by Kyle Baker finally comes out. The series explores J-Pop […]

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3. Comics Illustrator of the Week :: Kyle Baker

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This week we celebrate the great Kyle Baker for Comics Illustrator of the Week! Baker contributed the variant cover to this week’s Bizarro Comics #1. I first saw Kyle Baker’s work gracing the covers of Web of Spider-Man and Marvel Age when I was a kid. The first full interior work I saw by him was DC’s excellent Mature Reader’s version of The Shadow with writer Andy Helfer.

After working as an intern for Marvel Comics during his senior year of high school and then working on art assists for a period of time, Baker started to pick up penciling & inking assignments for The Big 2, including drawing the Howard the Duck movie adaptation for Marvel. Not being satisfied with just doing work that others wanted him to do or drawing in the style that was considered popular & marketable for the time, Baker decided to write & draw his own comics. This led to the publication of The Cowboy Wally Show graphic novel. Although, it was a low-printed indy book, it was enough to get the attention of editors looking for new original voices. So, 2 years later DC Comics published Baker’s next original comic Why I Hate Saturn, which would go on to win an Eisner Award and help solidify Kyle Baker as a creative force in the industry.

During the 1990’s Baker began to branch out, contributing regular comic strips for major magazines & newspapers, as well as work on animation projects, including an animated music-video with KRS-One in 1994.

Kyle Baker, to this day, continues to be a diverse artist, working on films, games, music, comics, illustration, etc. You can see what he’s been working on, including animation storyboards and preview comics pages on his Quality Jollity website here.

Other notable works by Kyle Baker: Nat Turner, Plastic Man, Instant Piano, Deadpool MAX, Justice INC, King David, You Are Here, Special Forces, and Truth: Red, White & Black.

For more comics related art, you can follow me on my website comicstavern.com – Andy Yates

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4. Kyle Baker unveils SMASH MANNIX VS THE MOB for Aces Weekly

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Mere days ago we revealed ACES WEEKLY, a new digital anthology which cartoonist David Lloyd is launching. The contributors list sounded awesome, but no sample pages were released. However Kyle Baker has posted a huge previews of SMASH MANNIX VS THE MOB, his strip for the anthology, writing:

SMASH MANNIX VERSUS THE MOB is my contribution to David Lloyd’s new ACES WEEKLY digital comic, due out in a few months! It’s the story of Detective “Hottie” McDaniel’s quest to find out who’s wiping out mobsters in unusual ways. It’s a mystery, so I don’t wanna tell you too much more yet!


It certainly looks very unusual, and will apparently include limited GIF animations? Future comics?

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5. Fiffe Files: Kyle Baker

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It’s Kyle Baker’s birthday today so wish him a happy birthday over on Facebook, visit his blog

, leave a comment, and buy tons of his books while you’re at it.

For the occasion, I wanted to spark a discussion about the differences between digital vs hand drawn comic art. What better artist to focus on than one who has mastered both: Kyle Baker.

Kyle Baker used to draw with pencils and ink and white out and paper back in the 80s. According to his high school classmates, he used to ink Marvel Comics assignments on the NYC Subway trains. Baker would later describe this inking technique to The Comics Journal as “expressionistic”. By the mid-90s, he started toying with computers and he hasn’t looked back since. Much to a few purists’ chagrin, he’s almost completely abandoned the old ways in order to make room for the new.

I’m paraphrasing here but Baker has stated that cartoonists are the only people left in the world that still use nibs and brushes dipped ink the way our forefathers used to. OK, so he’s not into ink anymore, but that’s only a criticism in contrast with other media such as animation and illustration. After all, canvases and paint are still used. Baker’s point is broader, though, in that he knows exactly what he’s competing with in the realm of entertainment.

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Baker’s new digital approach wasn’t my favorite (I still like using an actual dry brush over a dry brush tool in Photoshop) until I realized that he was using computers the same way Gary Panter uses paint or Ralph Steadman uses ink: he was maximizing the specific properties of those tools in an aggressive way. As he recently discussed in his Modern Masters book

, Baker is unabashed about having his comics look like computers made them.

Baker’s argument is why shouldn’t it look like computers? With that, he’s at odds with most of the cartoonists that use this technology to mimic other styles, which is almost everybody. Baker abandons all such pretenses about trying to make something look like something it isn’t.

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Brian Bolland makes a strong, intelligent case for digital comic booking in the introduction for the DC Guide to Digital Inking, boiling it down to the primal

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