Will It Blend ? This week : comics
July 28th, 2008
Miguel Martins and Joana Lafuente’s cute and wonderful Loli Loves Venom takes referentiality to the next, rather dizzying level.
Add to :
The Ephemerist
Thriving in the margins since 2002…
Holy Snog, Batman !
July 28th, 2008
Batman and Robin, as seen by Terry Richardson.
(photo © Terry Richardson, I suppose, via cgunit.net)
Add to :
Immonen goes McCay
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)
Add to :
A computer glossary
July 28th, 2008Some 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.
Add to :
Help in a cruel and dangerous world
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 !
Add to :
20 Years Of Sandman
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)
Add to :
Get your cartoon on
July 25th, 2008Get 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.
Add to :
The antidote for civilisation
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.
Add to :
About Charlotte
July 24th, 2008
British cartoonist Nabiel Kanan has started a new comic serial on his website, called About Charlotte. It’s too soon to actually say anything about the story (only one strip is available).
I have high hopes, though - I have good memories of his Exit and The Drowners graphic novels. Somehow Kanan has always been able to publish top notch material without getting too much attention. Maybe this web serial will change that, and more people will discover his great comics.
Add to :
Matena mural in Antwerp
July 24th, 2008
My mom (link in Dutch) sent me this picture of a mural by cartoonist Dick Matena in Antwerp, featuring Laarmans and Van Schoonbeke, the main characters from Willem Elsschot’s novella Kaas (Cheese).
Earlier this year Matena published a comic version (link in Dutch) of that novella, after already having submitted books by Jan Wolkers and Gerard Reve to the same treatment.
Add to :
