Seeing Charles Burns in Angoulème reminded me of the Altoids campaign he did a couple of years back. Since they’re no longer available on the Altoids site, I’m reposting them here. Enjoy.
Julian Beever is a pavement artist par excellence. His trompe l’oeuils are simply awesome. Here are two examples, featuring Spider-Man and Batman. Be sure to check out the rest of his site !
My youngest son Dieter got to watch Fellowship Of The Ring, and drew a nice balrog !
Above is a card game that was given away as a bonus with cereal earlier this year. Print on cardboard, cut out and have hours of fun !
Back in the early 1970’s, Union Carbide ran some advertisments in comic form with Flash Gordon. They are quite cheesy, and I really can’t understand how this was still a good idea in the 70’s.
These cookies are for sale in Belgium these days. They’re quite good.
A nice advert for a Hulk game on the Sony PS2.
(source : can’t remember. I think I got this via email)
Toon and I left for Angoulême today. We were lucky : we arrived at 5 pm, and it started snowing at 5.15. Bart got stuck in the blizzard on the N10 between Poitiers and Angoulême and only got there at about midnight.
Anyway, I don’t think I’ll be doing a regular festival report (I’m sure other bloggers will get to that). One thing that struck me today is that the complete city just breathes comics. They’re everywhere, even in the local fast food joint, which features a short story by Ted Benoit in wall paintings. I didn’t take pictures of each and every wall, as that would have been too geeky.
Benjamin Leroy and Merel Eyckerman are two Belgian illustrators, working for magazines and children’s books. Their work is very illustrative of recent trends in illustration, mixing a poetry reminiscent of fairy tales with a free line and a wicked sense of humor.
Via Frank.
Beardyman is the king of beatboxing. That’s not me talking, that’s ivow, king of deep tunnel house. Check it out for yourself.
Or try this one, which is even more hilarious :
