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Reading the Internet so you don’t have to, Part 6
This turned up recently on Andrew Ross MacLean’s Tumblr: Hellboy versus Anung Un Rama. I was unfamiliar with MacLean’s work, but a little poking round his portfolio shows an artist with a really...
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Reading the Internet so you don’t have to, Part 7
I’ve described some artists here as having “escaped” comics for the rarified air of the fine art world. I get the feeling Glenn Barr would deny that description, I remember seeing him describe his...
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Art Barrage | Dan Quintana’s Batman, Ian McQue’s Dredd and more
By now, everyone’s bound to have seen Matt Fraction’s Fantastic Four Tumblr, yeah? The writer is publicly working out his background reading for taking over the comic those of us of a certain age...
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Art Barrage | Bond’s Wonder Woman and Bagwell’s Adventure Time
It used to be that the regular place to go to get new Philip Bond art was his Flickr page, but that has been joined of late by his Instagram feed. This Wonder Woman has something of both Robert Crumb...
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Art Barrage | Comics in odd places
Jim Mahfood provides cover art for the comic-loving DJ Food et al’s Solid Steel Caught In The Middle of a 3-Way Mix, a rather great tribute to The Beastie Boy’s Paul’s Boutique. Below the break: Dan...
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Art Barrage | Special (nearly) all-British edition
Simon Bisley’s return to 2000AD after 22 years absence comes in the form of the cover to the upcoming Prog 1800. It’s already dividing opinion. I’ve never blamed Bisley for the worst excesses of his...
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Art Barrage | Comics at the interface with fine art
As British designer/comic book artist Rian Hughes once wrote, “When musicians remake an old hit, it’s called a cover version. When a painter copies an illustrator, it’s called fine art.” Hughes’...
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Art Barrage | Comic artists keep blogging the good stuff
This year’s CBLDF Liberty Annual from Image (#5) has this lovely cover from Terry Dodson and Rachel Dodson. I’m always a sucker for an image of a girl on a scooter (see also: Adi Granov’s...
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Art Barrage | U.K. cartoonists feeling frisky
Art Barrage favorite Rob Davis has debuted the cover for his adaptation of Don Quixote Part Two. Davis’ work on the first book of Cervantes’ masterpiece was that rare treat, an adaptation that crossed...
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Art Barrage | Fine art’s nerd fetish
As I said a while back, comics seems to be having an increasing influence on fine art and illustration. One aspect of this is fine art fetishizing the iconography of comics. You may already have seen...
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Art Barrage | The return of Paul Pope, among other matters
More proof that Paul Pope’s Battling Boy may actually be about to see the light of day emerges arrives courtesy Mark Siegel’s diary for The Comics Journal. And, providing corroborating evidence that...
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Art Barrage | JBK Fletcher’s superhero iconography
JKB Fletcher is an English artist living in Melbourne, Australia, who’s produced three series of works using superhero iconography: Heroes, paintings of action figures he “originally started painting...
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Art Barrage | Jason Bard Yarmosky, Sho Murase and more
Ah, the cruel end to Shakespeare’s seven ages of man, from Jacque’s “All the world’s a stage” monologue in As You Like It: “Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second...
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Art Barrage | Pop Art gets charitable, and weird
Another day, another gallery opening an exhibition of loosely-themed pop culture-derived art. This time it’s “The Gang’s All Here” at the Bottleneck Gallery, Brooklyn, beginning Friday and continuing...
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Art Barrage | Bumper post-Thanksgiving meat sweats edition
Illustrator Christina Ung manages to fit in just about everyone on the planet going at it Gangnam Style, including The Caped Crusader. Batman is, of course, no stranger to faddish dance crazes (also...
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Art Barrage | Tyson McAdoo
Tyson McAdoo didn’t hang around long in comics; it’s hard to find many credits for him, just a few inking gigs at the Big Two and Dark Horse. He’s a man with an interesting life story, though:...
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Art Barrage | The Jane Austen rule
As Jane Austen once wrote, it is a truth universally acknowledged that any illustrator or painter who sticks a Superman emblem or a Catwoman mask in his or her work will probably end up in Art...
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Art Barrage | Chris Weston has finally cracked
I remember that a year or two ago, Chris Weston playing a little game with his Twitter followers: casting an imaginary Carry On X-Men film. If memory serves, I may even have contributed to it myself;...
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Art Barrage | Detecting Comics — international edition
Jace Wallace is an illustrator and concept artist who paints digitally. His website mainly showcases fantasy, fashion and video-game work (warning: much NSFW content abounds at that link), but his...
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Art Barrage | Superman’s disguises, ‘Temptation of Robin’ and more
Welcome to the first “Art Barrage” of the new year, in which I intend to bombard you with loads of interesting work you might not have seen before. Some of it is comic art, while sometimes it will...
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