RYAN OTTLEY | my drawings MirandaMercury.com Bryan Talbot: biography For a complete list of Bryan's work, see the Bryan Talbot stripography - and also see Bryan's advice to new comic creators. Born: 24 February 1952, Wigan, Lancashire Educated: Wigan Grammar School, Wigan School of Art, Harris College, Preston, Lancs – Diploma in Graphic Design First published illustrations appeared in Mallorn, the British Tolkien Society Magazine in 1969. In 1971 he drew the cover to the first issue of Dark Horizons, the magazine of the British Fantasy Society. First published comic strip: Superharris, a weekly strip for the college newspaper. in collaboration fellow student, the cartoonist Bonk. 1972 Bryan worked in British underground comics for five years, creating, writing and drawing the Brainstorm Comix series for Alchemy Press. Brainstorm Six featured The Omega Report (1978), a popular story which blended Sci-Fi, rock music and comedy into a private detective pastiche. In 1983 he began working for the weekly SF comic 2000AD.
Why Calvin and Hobbes is Great Literature ‹ Literary Hub On the Ontology of a Stuffed Tiger and Finding the Whole World in a Comic “To an editor,” Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, wrote in 2001, “space may be money, but to a cartoonist, space is time. Space provides the tempo and rhythm of the strip.” The strip follows Calvin, a blonde six-year-old American that Watterson named after the founder of Calvinism. Calvin and Hobbes feels so inventive because it is: the strips take us to new planets, to parodies of film noir, to the Cretaceous period, to encounters with aliens in American suburbs and bicycles coming to life and reality itself being revised into Cubist art. I’ve always loved the way that the best books—including comics—change as we do. Polina Barskova, Masha Gessen, & Catherine Ciepiela at Greenlight Bookstore Loading Ad I’ve gotten more into comics as I’ve grown older, but Calvin and Hobbes is the one that has stayed with me from childhood to adulthood. “Everything familiar has disappeared! Gabrielle Bellot
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"The Long Tomorrow": Discover Mœbius' Hard-Boiled Detective Comic That Inspired Blade Runner (1975) Alejandro Jodorowsky may never have made his film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune, but plenty came out of the attempt — including, one might well argue, Blade Runner. Making that still hugely influential adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Ridley Scott and his collaborators looked to a few key visual sources, one of them a two-part short story in comic form called “The Long Tomorrow.” Illustrated by none other than French artist Mœbius, one of the richest visual imaginations of our time, it tells the futuristic hard-boiled story of a private detective in a dense, vertical underground city filled with androids, rowdy bars, assassins, and flying cars. Then comes the fateful piece of narration that begins any detective story worth its salt: “It started out a day like any other day.” The French may have coined the term film noir, but this early work of future noir benefited from having an American writer. via Dangerous Minds Related Content:
Visual Language Lab | » TINTIN Project TINTIN Project TINTIN Project Are there cross-cultural patterns in the visual languages used in comics of the world? We seek to address these questions in the “TINTIN Project”, officially known as “Visual narratives as a window into language and cognition.” We have created the Multimodal Annotation Software Tool (MAST), to better enable the analysis of visual and multimodal documents. The TINTIN project is a follow up from the Visual Language Research Corpus which analyzed cross-cultural variation in comics from Asia, Europe, and the United States. Want to read more about the TINTIN Project? Team Members Our current research team consists of several core staff and various collaborators around the world help find and analyze comics for our corpus and conduct experiments. At Tilburg University, we collaborate with faculty members Joost Schilperoord and Myrthe Faber. Bruno Cardoso is a postdoctoral fellow who designed and programmed the Multimodal Annotation Software Tool (MAST). Contributors
The Best SUPERMAN Comic Never Published by DC Hire this guy. UPDATED 8/1/23: Over the weekend, on the late Dave Stevens’ birthday, we re-presented a piece about Adrien van Viersen’s Rocketeer Meets Superman artwork. Click here to check it out. Anyway, a lot of folks discovered this 2017 piece as well, so we figured it’d be a good time to throw it wide again. Just the other day, I reiterated how Superman and Action Comics are the best they’ve been in years. Great time to be a fan of the Man of Steel. It gets better, though. Turns out that Adrien, as a labor of love, took it upon himself to produce a full-length Superman comic that reimagines his Golden Age beginnings: It’s a Supertreat and I want to share a sequence with you, as well as Adrien’s intro and afterword. Dear DC: Please publish this. I’ll get out of the way now and show you the pages. Now go download the rest, here. — The Curious Case of When SUPERMAN Met the ROCKETEER. — SNEAK PEEK: Behold the Majesty of the Remastered FLEISCHER SUPERMAN. Like this: Like Loading...
Blind Accessible Comics – Spin Weave and Cut Accessible Comics for the Blind Project – an ongoing collaboration at SFSU between Comics, Studies, the Program for Visual Impairment, and the Longmore Institute (now called The Accessible Comics Collective) to explore ways of making comics accessible for blind and low vision readers. The Accessible Comics Collective has now hosted two international conversations, with an exhibition in the works as part of the just-launched (May 2022) design competition for teams to make Accessible Comics. (Scroll down past the events for existing resources and a rundown of comics created for blind/low vision readers.) Innovations in Accessible Comics Zoom symposium: hear from the winners of our Accessible Comics Design Competition! And please click here to explore a Showcase of our Prizewinner’s Creations! Please go here for the comic on accessible comics Emily Beitiks and I created for MIT Review Comic on Accessibility! Accessible Comics Design Competition – Launches May 2022! Event Flyer
BCP’s Top 10 Comics of 2022 – BIG COMIC PAGE Well, that’s another twelve months in the (comic) books, and it’s been another year packed with exciting, inventive and engaging comic book releases, just the way we like it! Every year we read hundreds (if not thousands) of comics as part of the Big Comic Page, so trying to filter them down into a handy bite-sized year-end list is always something of a challenge. And year after year, I always seem to manage to leave someone out. So with that in mind, I’m going to follow this year’s “best of” with a list of cracking books that didn’t quite make my own personal cut, but which may very well make yours. Big thanks as always to every single publisher, creator and enthusiastic fan who has helped get a comic book in front of our collective eyeballs over the last twelve months. You guys rock. So with the caveat that no, I haven’t read every comic released this year and yes, this is heavily subjective based on my own personal preferences, here are my Top 10 Comics of 2022, in no particular order…