Lucha. Webcomic. Golden-age. Badass. España. Antology. Comic Book Resources. Boilet. ROBOL desde Mundo Bocado. Moco Comics de Juanele. Pup. Ragged Claws Network - Greeting Cards by R. Crumb. Owen Fitzgerald and His Descendants. You know, a funny thing about DC comics. Their "cartoony" artists are generally much better draftsmen than their "realistic" superhero artists. Owen Fitzgerald is kind of the father of the DC "funny human" comic lines. Owen was an animator and layout artist for many classic cartoons and drew comics on the side. He drew a beautiful comic series in the 40s called "Starlet O'Hara in Hollywood" and a few others before he started doing Hollywood star comics for DC.
Owen is a master of pretty girl art, in fact, in my opinion, far superior to any of the Archie artists, even though I like some of them very much. He is great at composing crowds of girls, and manages to give each one her own distinct pose, while at the same time making all their poses flow together into a complete design. He also gives each girl her own hair style, so I imagine he must have collected fashion magazines and copied real hair styles to get his ideas from. Owen doesn't use a lot of detail within his scenes. ButterNutSquash by Pérez & Coughler.
Comic Art Collective. Rare Bill Watterson Art :: For the Calvin Connoisseur. Added a dinosaur painting from a Cleveland, OH hospital art college, over in the Rare Art section. Added a 2014 interview Bill Watterson gave with museum curator Jenny Robb, over in the Words section. Sadly, we lost the great artist Richard Thompson last week at the age of 58. I have added a 2013 interview Bill Watterson conducted with Thompson, over in the Words section.
GOOD. LORD. This is embarrassing. Can you believe the last time I updated my Calvin and Hobbes site was 2009 ??? Don't bother answering that, you'd only embarrass me further. But here we are in 2016 with some huge news: the site is back with a new look and renewed interest from yours truly. No time for chit-chat, let's do this, my friends! Today's Update: Um, you know, an entirely new look for the site, thanks to WordPress and a zillion hours of my lifeFixed the dates in the Political Cartoons section (under RARE ART)Added a digital painting by Zatransis in the Fan Art section. Sixteen Miles to Merricks Online Edition. Dirt between my toes. Jonny Crossbones. Evil space robot. FreakAngels. Carlos Meglia Blog. Penny Arcade. Control alt delete. BitStrips.
Peter Newell's books. Topsys and Turvys Topsys and Turvys 2 The Hole Book The Rocket Book The Slant Book The 20-Mule-Team Brigade Jungle-Jangle New! Almost a century after newspaper serialization: The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead I don't really know much about Peter Newell except he was famous as an illustrator of children's books at the turn of the century and did appreciated illustrations of Lewis Carroll's Nonsense books (Alice and Snark). His own books tend to be based on a single idea, the holes of the Hole Book and Rocket Book, pictures which can be looked at upside down in the two Topsys and Turvys. What I find interesting is the fact that he seems to have made the typically Victorian children's book more popular and introduced techniques that would be used by newspaper comic artists in their daily or weekly production; in particular the recurring device (hole, turning the picture) recalls the repetitiveness of the early comic strips (Nemo's waking up, Ignatz's brick).
Guy Peellaert. XKCD. Jack Cole in Wikipedia. Jack Ralph Cole (December 14, 1914 – August 13, 1958)[1] was an American cartoonist best known for creating the comedic superhero, Plastic Man, and his cartoons for Playboy magazine. He was posthumously inducted into the comic book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1991[2] and the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1999.[3] Police Comics No. 24 (Nov. 1943).
Cover art by Jack Cole Born in New Castle, Pennsylvania, Cole—the third of six children of a dry goods-store owner and amateur-entertainer father and a former elementary school-teacher mother—was untrained in art except for the Landon School of Illustration and Cartooning correspondence course. At age 17, he bicycled solo cross-country to Los Angeles, California and back. In 1936, having married childhood sweetheart Dorothy Mahoney soon after graduating high school, Cole moved with his wife to New York City's Greenwich Village. Cole created Plastic Man for a backup feature in Quality's Police Comics No. 1 (Aug. 1941). Wally Wood in Wikipedia. EC publisher William Gaines once stated, "Wally may have been our most troubled artist... I'm not suggesting any connection, but he may have been our most brilliant".[2] He was the inaugural inductee into the comic book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1989, and was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1992.
Biography[edit] Early life and career[edit] By October, after being rejected by every company he visited, Wood met fellow artist John Severin in the waiting room of a small publisher. 1950s[edit] Working over scripts and pencil breakdowns by Jules Feiffer, the 25-year-old Wood drew two months of Will Eisner's classic, Sunday-supplement newspaper comic book The Spirit, on the 1952 story arc "The Spirit in Outer Space".
Books illustrated by Wood Between 1957 and 1967, Wood produced both covers and interiors for more than 60 issues of the science-fiction digest Galaxy Science Fiction, illustrating such authors as Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Silver Age/Bronze Age[edit]