French born illustrator Marguerite Sauvage has been invading the comics world of late and she is wowing fans this week with her stunning interior art for the all-new DC Comics Bombshells series! Sauvage is a self-taught artist who actually decided to pursue a career in illustration after earning her degree in Law and Communication. Just some of her clients include such big names as Elle, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Louis Vuitton, L’Oréal, PlayStation, and Apple!
In addition to the interior art on Bombshells and Sensation Comics featuring Wonder Woman #3, Sauvage has been very busy as a comic book cover specialist for such titles as Hinterkind, Wolf Moon, Secret Wars, Howard the Duck, Jem and the Holograms, Thor, and Wayward.
With so much great comics work completed in such a small amount of time(1-2 years..?), I’m excited to see what Marguerite Sauvage has in store for us the next couple of years!
If you’d like to see more of Sauvage’s work and get the latest updates, you can follow her on twitter here.
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Eva Cabrera is one of the exciting new talents to come out of Mexico in recent years, along with her Boudika Comics cohort Claudia Aguirre. I stumbled upon their table of comics a few years ago at San Diego Comic-Con. Boudika Comics has a few collaborative books available now, including The House of Dreams, Daymares, and the brand new Mavi.
Eva recently dipped her toe in the big publisher pool with two variant covers for BOOM! Studios’ Adventure Time comic and Bravest Warriors. She has also worked on various other projects like Esa Visita children’s book and No Entren Al 1408 Stephen King tribute anthology.
You can follow Eva Cabrera and see the latest art on her twitter page here.
For more comics related art, you can follow me on my website comicstavern.com – Andy Yates
The Sparky Interview is a series of posts where I highlight independent creative people and companies who inspire me to be better at the stuff I do.
They all wear their own brand of fire pants.
Libby and I first started working together in a midtown Manhattan insane asylum. By insane asylum, I mean litigation consulting firm. Creating forty-five bar charts at 3:00 AM for a courtroom presentation that same morning should not be considered by anyone to be an activity that emotionally balanced humans participate in. But there we were, with equally unbalanced attorneys sweating it out with us over the phone. We were all crazy. But we did things that defied the laws of possibility in graphics production.
These days, Libby and I have both created our own brands of helping people do crazy things with our graphics. The thing that impresses me most about Libby is her willingness to admit that she doesn’t know about a particular process – and then throws herself into becoming an expert without wasting any time.
I’ve also been dying to share her talents with you because her pattern collection is like hot buttered rum for your eyes. Not in a stinging, emergency-eye-wash-station kind of way. I mean, smooooth.
With that, I’ll just get into the interview and hear what Libby has to say.
Le Interview
Hi, Libby, thanks for being here. Please introduce yourself to our studio audience.
Hello, I’m Libby Unwin. I live in Denver with my husband, Matt, and dog, Molly. I like to draw.
Who is your ideal client?
Someone who is enthusiastic about the end result, someone who understands their role in the design process and enjoys it, and someone who knows when to say when. I’m a people-person, and like the nuances different personalities bring to each project. Sometimes the client is more fun than the work itself! (Can I say that out loud?)
I notice you really, really like creating patterns and are amazing at it. What led you down that road and where do see it taking your business?
Aww, thanks! I’ve been doing this since I can remember. In the 8th grade, I got in trouble for turning in a worksheet with only my name and a very intricate design completely filling the margins — no answers to the questions. That’s the first pattern I remember drawing. So, this has been itching for a very long time, but it never occurred to me that I could actually do this for a living. It made sense to be a graphic artist, so I became one and have been doing that professionally for about 8 years; it wasn’t until Alluminare contacted me last winter that I realized there was an industry called “surface design”. It unleashed something and I began drawing. And drawing. And drawing. That lead me to learning ab
