Garen Ewing’s A-Z comic characters is almost halfway now, and it’s been one of the best comics-themed serials on the web in a long time.
As a Eurocomics nut, I was very pleased that Gaston Lagaffe and Captain Haddock made the grade, and I’m quite qurious as to who will be the Q or the X (and please, Garen, leave the X-men out of this)…
Almost a year ago I posted a War Bonds Poster that featured Al Capp’s Li’l Abner. Apparently this struck a chord, because I received quite a few comments and questions as a result of that post.
One of the Ephemerist’s readers sent in a scan of a similar poster, this time also featuring Capp’s celebrated character, the Shmoo. It is for sale, so if anybody’s interested, let me know and I’ll relay your message.
We visited Antwerp over the weekend. It had been a while, and it was nice to see a new mural gracing the walls of the Boerentoren. This is getting to be a tradition in Belgium, and Antwerp can’t afford to be left behind here.
The mural is executed by Jan vander Veken (who earlier also did a mural in Turnhout), and illustrates the great diversity that at multicultural city like Antwerp has to offer.
If only more dull grey slabs of concrete would be decorated like this, what joy this city (or any city, for that matter) would be.
Anyway, just to prove that Vander Veken is also a keen caligraphist, here’s a close-up of his signature.
Over on The Daily Cartoonist, Alan Gardner gives a preview of the second issue of Stay Tooned! magazine, which should hit the stands in about a month. It will feature Mike Peters, Chad Carpenter, Tom Bancroft, Ben Towle, Bill Day, Mason Mastroianni and Joe Staton. Staton also did the cover, shown above. Can you name all characters he used, because I sure as hell can’t.
Jeremy Eaton’s new Cartoon Character Jumbles are quite a delight. As are his other cartoons for that matter (I especially like the ones with the Alice theme in the Drawn Perspective series)
Skeezix Coloring Book, from Laura Park’s Flickr collection. Laura’s got a story in the new Superior Showcase collection from Adhouse Books. It’s recommendable !
Dieter, our youngest son (and creator of the Multiple Plunk, the Balrog, the Dangerous Map, and the Multi-tooth Smile), recently did a delightful picture of the sun for an assignment at our local children’s art academy. Much to our surprise and delight, that same picture was used on the poster of the academy’s annual art fair, which resulted in Dieter’s sun popping up all over town…
The art fair was part of the Limburg Tour, a weekend-long series of art fairs and exhibitions of local artists in different venue across the province. A map of the events was drawn by Limburg cartoonist par excellence, Kim Duchateau. Which gives to this post the necessary comic content after all…
This is the Superman drawing that Rosemary Travale created for Project Rooftop’s Superman - Man Of Style competition, which ended last week.
I like it, it has a certain je ne sais quoi…
A lot can be said about Google, but some of the people in the know there at least have taste. After the likes of Michael Graves, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac and Mark Frauenfelder, they asked Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba to create their very own iGoogle theme. There’s no reason anymore not to testify your love for good cartooning on your favorite Web2.0 playground.
From what I’ve seen of it, it’s a good theme, with adequate variation. But if you didn’t know it was done by the Boys from Brazil, you’d never have guessed it…
