Blog Archive
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The Collected Doug Wright: Seth's Design Process
Holy moley macaroley! A recent article on the Comics Journal shares Seth’s design process on the beautiful The Collected Doug Wright. If you’re interested in a book designer’s process work, check it out.
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Ed Piskor and the eventual Brain Rot of american society
Unbeknownst to most, Pittsburgh is home to a vibrant independent comics scene. With over 7 comics shops in the city and the Toonseum, a museum wholly dedicated to celebrating animation and comics, you can be sure that there are a lot of comics aficionados in town. And, with homegrown comics anthologies like Andromeda and Unicorn Mountain, alongside independent comics giants like Jim Rugg, Frank Santoro and Tom Scioli, you can be sure that there’s a lot of ink hitting the page in the city.
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Odds and Ends: Newspaper Illustrations
I thought that I’d share these little illustrations have been made for CMU’s newspaper the Tartan. Nothing fancy, just trying to make some solid looking illustrations to go along with the articles.
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Sketchbook Crush: Joe Lambert
Hey y’all,.
I thought I’d start off 2012 with a post about my sketchbook crush on Joe Lambert. He recently made a post showing all of his sketchbooks. 39 in total.
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Observing Rage Comics And Images Macros
It’s been a long time since a defense of comics as a medium of expression has been necessary. You might not like Zot, but _Understanding Comics _was the defense that the medium had long been waiting for.
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Rage Comics and Image Macros
In the past 4 years, there has been a widespread development, across English speaking users to utilize the format of the Rage Comic. While often vapid, there are incredible comics done by users that use the structures of the comics and the expected payoffs in extraordinary ways.
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Appreciating Bruce Timm
I’ll be honest with you, Batman bores me unless he’s drawn by Bruce Timm. Ok, ok, you’ve got others like Mazzucchelli and Josh Simmons that also make Batman stories that blow the competition out of the water, but Timm distills and re-contextualizes the essence of Batman and the world of Gotham in his drawings spectacularly in a way that I’ve seen no other artist capable of replicating.
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