16 pages is enough
February 9th, 2010
Word balloons represent blah in these ads for the 16-page Resumo Newspaper. I kinda like the layout of these pages.
(from Ads of the World)
The Ephemerist
Thriving in the margins since 2002…
Lets have our ads talk !
February 9th, 2010
Two great examples of comic strip elements in vintage ads, respectively from Vintage Ads and Found In Mom’s Basement.
Boulet in 24 hours
February 7th, 2010
French cartoonist and comic blogger extraordinaire Boulet just released his completed contribution to the 2010 edition of the 24 heures de la BD. It’s a very moving story about the loss of youthful innocence and about where our fantasies go when we grow up. It features pirates, monsters and it’s wordless, so there’s no reason why you shouldn’t check it out.
New trailer for Adele Blanc-Sec
February 7th, 2010The new trailer for Luc Besson’s Adèle Blanc-Sec movie (based on Jacques Tardi’s bandes dessinées) finally shows some sneak peaks at the monsters, the mummies and the madmen. Looks quite promising !
When giants meet
February 7th, 2010
Chip Kidd writes + Charles Burns draws + Chris Ware letters = pure awesomeness in the AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers of 2008 collection…
(via This Isn’t Happiness)
The Big Stink
February 5th, 2010
USS Catastrophe’s Kevin H and Dan Zettwoch produced a seven-page story for the Riverfront Times on the stench that the city of St Louis sometimes seems to be drenched in. It’s a very enjoyable ramble on all kinds of things, featuring their signature know-it-all character Leon Beyond, the Wizard Of Trivia.
On Zettwoch’s blog, you can also take a little peek at the creation process of the strip.
Mickey A La Francaise
February 3rd, 2010
At the Angoulème Festival last week, Le Figaro’s Olivier Delcroix asked three giants of European comics for a reintepretation of Mickey Mouse. Next to Enki Bilal (above), his blog also features the sketches by the Président of the 2010 festival, Blutch, and André Juillard. And another quickie by Bilal, which is really cute.
Pop Art Ad
February 3rd, 2010
Joe Jusko does Superman
February 3rd, 2010
Over at the Covered project, Joe Jusko and Matt Kaufenberg have reimagined Fred Ray’s cover for Action Comics # 40 (DC 1941). I’m normally not a big Jusko fan, but damn, this kicks !
Some early Merveille
January 31st, 2010
I was cleaning out some boxes that took up space, and came across this CD-single by Flemish singer-commedian (and quite succesful comic writer) Urbanus. It features a quite risqué, albeit very funny and naive sort of song, but for some reason it hadn’t occurred to me at the time (the single’s more than 15 years old) that the cover was done by none other than atom style wizard David Merveille. He even did a nice little cat on the back (doubtlessly referencing the wordplay on “pussy” that featured all through the song).
So, David, if you read this : we know where you’ve been 
