The Ephemerist

cute…

(via Boing Boing)

One Year to Midnight reveals (some of) the official Watchmen movie costumes.  I like the one above, and I absolutely detest all the rest of them, so I won’t show them here.

Once more, they have fallen in the trap of unnecessarily griming and grittying up the costumes.  Part of the appeal of Dave Gibbons’ art was the limited amount of colors, mimicking the limited printing possibilities of typical pulp comics of the fifties and sixties.  this is all gone now : Watchmen has been sexed up, and I don’t like it.

As in the book, only Rorschach is true to his cause…

“The Tinker”, by Eddie Campbell (from The Fate of the Artist)

I like this. A lot. The colors may be a bit to real and too gritty, but I still like it.

(from Ain’t It Cool News, still my favorite guilty geekboy pleasure)

I’ve been spending a lot of time on scans daily lately, since I find it quite amuzing to read other people’s thoughts and impressions of comic imagery, while I see the images themselves. It’s a live slide show at best, another link dump at worst.

This Cobweb story was originally created for an issue of Tomorrow Stories, but apparently the world’s occult cycles are also very much in tune with today’s intellectual rights. So DC axed it, and it popped up in a Top Shelf anthology later. And now it’s here for you to enjoy.

Yesterday on The Simpsons : Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore and Dan Clowes appear at a cooler comics store than Comic Book Guy’s. More pictures at scans_daily.

Katie Cook draws the cutest Poison Ivy ‘ve ever seen. I want one ! And just look at these cutesy Watchmen :

Check out her other sketch cards for DC, Star Wars and others. This girl is a graphical genius.

A nice one from pootling.

Illustrator Robert Ulman of Atom Bomb Bikini has a nice idea : recreate your favorite imaginary comic book covers. His take : Watchmen’s Silk Spectre, with Nite-Owl, Captain Metropolis and Hooded Justice on a Flash Comics parody. Very, very cute indeed, and very timely, what with all the hubbub about the Watchmen movie.

(go to Robert’s blog for the original Flash cover)

OK. I officially can hardly wait.