Archive for July, 2008

Mickey rejects

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

The portraits by Lisa Carletta clearly show why these sorry specimens didn’t make the grade as a bonafide Mickey.

(With thanks to Jourik - photo © Lisa Carletta, Mickey Mouse ® Walt Disney Corp)

Speak-ers

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

These speaker concepts were designed by Sherwood Forlee and do what their name says : the speak.  Or sing, for that matter.

(via Freshome)

Will It Blend ? This week : comics

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Miguel Martins and Joana Lafuente’s cute and wonderful Loli Loves Venom takes referentiality to the next, rather dizzying level.

Holy Snog, Batman !

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Batman and Robin, as seen by Terry Richardson.

(photo © Terry Richardson, I suppose, via cgunit.net)

Immonen goes McCay

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Here are The origins of DC Super-Villains, as envisioned by Stuart Immonen in the early 1990’s.  As if Windsor McCay came back to life.  With thanks to CalamityJon.

(via Drawn)

A computer glossary

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Some people can do everything.  Take Charles and Ray Eames.  They looked good, they created some of the greatest chairs in the world, and to top it off, they were masters at instructional animation.  As the video above (from 1968) proves.

Help in a cruel and dangerous world

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Ger Apeldoorn has been writing a wonderful blog for a while now, but I only discovered it today.  What a treasure trove of vintage or obscure cartoon material !  One of Ger’s regular features are ads in comic strip format, such as these gruesome stories for Eveready batteries.

Man, those times must have been dangerous !

20 Years Of Sandman

Friday, July 25th, 2008

DC Comics celebrates 20 years of The Sandman with a rather chaotic poster featuring all the main characters from the seminal comics series, drawn by (almost) all artists who drew the stories in the first place.  Check out NY Magazine’s Vulture blog for a key to who drew who.

(Thanks, Richard - indeed, we’re getting old)

Get your cartoon on

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Get Your War On, the immensely popular satirical strips by David Rees, gets the animation treatment, thanks to and exclusively at 23/6.  Looks quite sleek.

The antidote for civilisation

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

This ad was published on the inside front cover of the 1992 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vs. the Conservation Crew Special (Archie comics).  I’m not really sure what to think of that tagline, though.

There can be little doubt that that book was put together with the best of intentions, but overall it’s really a crap comic.  It had best be left forgotten, if not for two pin-ups of the aforementioned Conservation Crew by Stan Sakai and Sergio Aragonez, presented after the click.

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