Cannonball !!!!!
Making a Splash has been a great exercise, it was fun and I learned a lot. I’d say the biggest surprise for me was the sheer power of Jack Kirby, I mean I knew it already but I just didn’t…
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Week 10: more free styling
My mind is all over the place this week so I thought it best if the splash pages were all over the place as well. Yowzers! This splash from Hangman #3 is just nasty. Comics.org has Mort Leav and John…
Week 5: Freestyling
No theme this week, I’m free styling and I like the result. Darwyn Cooke was a breath of fresh air, his New Frontier art knocked everybody’s socks off but I’ve always liked his work on The Spirit, a beautiful homage…
Web Arted #334
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Gaydos, Fradon, Epting, Cooke, Cardy.
Web Arted #327
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Cooke, Grell, Morrow, Harris, Gulacy, Palmiotti, Darrow.
Web Arted #303
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Byrne, Garcia-Lopez, Ditko, Cooke, Colan, Ayers.
Web Arted #302
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Cardy, Byrne, Austin, Colan, Shores, Cooke.
Review | Girl Power: Amanda Conner Gallery Edition
Amanda Conner’s amazing artwork showcasing some of DC’s most iconic female characters is collected together for the first time in the large, deluxe-format GIRL POWER: AMANDA CONNER GALLERY EDITION. Sourced from the original art, this collection reflects the incredible diversity…
Graphic Ink-The DC Comics Art of Darwyn Cooke
After the very sad passing of Darwyn Cooke in May, I made it a bit of a mission to get more familiar with his earlier work. I basically discovered him relatively late in his career with the New Frontier and…
The New Frontier…Too Soon
Being a Son of the Silver Age comes with a bit of a down side.Many of the Silver Age Creators have passed away and now even the Bronze Age artists are leaving us. But this past weekend (May 14th) marks the…
ComicLink Spring Featured Auction Original Art 2015
ComicLink has just wrapped their Spring Featured Auction: Original Art and as always there was furious bidding with record highs achieved. Unfortunately auction links from ComicLink are only good for a few days afterwards so please have a look at…
Web Arted Nov 28th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly at the Heritage Comic & Comic Art Signature Auction November 20-22 2014.
Darwyn Cooke’s Batman Beyond DC Nation Short
Here's the second 75th anniversary Batman short for the Cartoon Network's DC Nation: this time Darywn Cooke returns to Batman Beyond.
Web Arted Dec 20th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days.
Web Arted Aug 2nd
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days.
Web Arted June 7th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days.
2013 Joe Shuster Award nominees announced
The nominees for the 2013 Joe Shuster Awards were announced late last night, and it’s quite a list. The nominees cover a wide variety of material and genres. Feel free to make your selections in the comments. The “separate retailer…
Web Arted Apr 26th
A gathering of wonderful art culled from the internet years ago and forgotten on my hard drive; sources unknown.
Looking Forward To 2013 In Comic Books
Now that 2012 is one for the history books we look ahead to the new year. And there are a lot of titles that have piqued my interest. Star Wars While this series might be cancelled once Dark Horse’s contract…
Best of 2012
During this very festive of seasons we at the Comic Book Daily offices enjoy making lists and checking them twice, but our lists mostly are about the comic books we feel should be considered naughty or nice. In general I…