spx:
Never not reblogging the Michael Kupperman.
Wish I’d bought the Desert Island print when I had the chance.
a classic
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The first appearance of mohawk Storm by Paul Smith.
World Champion Sam Humphries has started a Mohawk Storm Tumblr.
Let’s all follow this right now.
Once Upon A Time in the West poster
by Sam Hiti
26”x38” three color silk screened poster on 100lb. paper. Ltd. 200 signed and numbered prints. $35/samhiti.com
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Chip Kidd, Chris Ware, and Charles Burns talking comics (Taken with Instagram at Brattle Theatre)
Things of note:
Overall I am really glad that comics and illustration discussion panels like these are starting to happen more frequently. It’s one thing to see an artist do book signings at some festival or convention, but ultimately they’re really just there to sell their books so the whole thing ends up more of a fanboy experience for both parties.
This panel, along with the recent comics discussion at the University of Chicago, felt like Inside The Actors Studio but for illustrators and designers. (Sidenote: which as a concept is actually kinda awesome and I wish was an actual TV show).
Suddenly I’m seeing sketches and thumbnails of their process, what goes through their head when they’re doing this stuff, what inspires them, how they think, how they act, all the things that would get you interested in the artist as a person, and not just their work.
Which is something that doesn’t even really ever happen, unless events like these are coordinated and artists are willing to participate in letting a room full of strangers and fans into their head for a few hours.
So I guess thanks to whoever coordinated this, as well as the other panel in Chicago. For $5.00 I got to witness three brilliant and passionate creatives at the top of their game give me a glimpse into their thought process which honestly did more for me than the 4 years I spent in “art school” (and the several thousands of dollars in student loans I owe to do so).
90-minute panel featuring Clowes, Charles Burns, Seth, Chris Ware, and Hillary Chute. Part of the ‘Comics: Philosophy & Practice’ conference that took place in Chicago last May. Clowes also appeared on another panel but that hasn’t been posted online yet. To see the other videos currently available, go here:
Well we just finished reading all the x men that were written in the 60s.
Here is a Gif of all the X Men Marvel logos from the 60s.
X-Men’s Storm: Fashion Sensation of the Mutant World
Ok, we know we just said we didn’t post images or gifs much, but we just remembered this amazing post we put up when our blog was still relatively new.
We are big fans of the 90s X-Men cartoon show (and X-Men in general) and were in the middle of a Netflix binge at the time. We happened to notice that in addition to being kind of a diva and extremely melodramatic (“I summon ARCTIC WINDS!”), Storm had an eye for fashion and loved to try out her new outfits, whether she was preparing for battle or preparing for bed.
So please enjoy our tribute to Storm, whose mutant power seems to be an uncanny fashion sense.
We’ve got a lot on our plates with the next two full length Smash TV videos, but we’re totally planning on making one or two hilarious X-Men supercuts one of these days.
COFFIN JOE
Can you DIG IT if you know it’s real?
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COMICS: PHILOSOPHY AND PRACTICE
While many noteworthy comics events are taking place this weekend, the not notable—and perhaps the most notable in recent comics history—is taking place at the University of Chicago’s new $114 million Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts: the Comics: Philosophy and Practice symposium organized by Hilary Chute. The lineup?
Lynda Barry, Alison Bechdel, Ivan Brunetti, Charles Burns, Daniel Clowes, R. Crumb, Phoebe Gloeckner, Justin Green, Ben Katchor, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Francoise Mouly, Gary Panter, Joe Sacco, Seth, Art Spiegelman, Carol Tyler, and Chris Ware
Sob, sob. Everyone. (Except the Hernandez Bros., but then someone had to be left behind in case there was an earthquake, just like the Secretary of Agriculture.)
The Chicago Tribune has a preview that engenders even more sobs about missing out:The rock scene had Woodstock. The jazz world famously gathered on the steps of a Harlem brownstone in 1958 for Esquire photographer Art Kane. In the 1920s, New York literati met at the Algonquin Round Table.
“It feels historic,” Bechdel said. “I realize how grandiose that might sound to someone who doesn’t know much about comics, but that’s the word that keeps coming to me. The whole thing just blows my mind.”
“It feels like a once-in-a-lifetime gathering of an entire art form,” said Paul Hornschemeier, a young, Evanston-based alternative cartoonist and illustrator acclaimed for his graphic novels. “I’m just not sure when they were putting it together if they realized how much genius they assembled. That hall only fits, what, 500?”
As the story notes, it fits only 474 people.
BUTYAY the internet makes all things possible and the sessions will be live streamed! And hopefully archived for history. Not archived, the epic coffee breaks and dinner talk. Seriously, had we known this was taking place we would have ditched C2E2 (not that we don’t love you, C2E2) and gone to this. But instead we’ll just be glued to our livestreaming webcasts and the many reports of epic epicness doubtless to come.
BTW did we mention the event is FREE to attend (but long sold out)? God bless academia and educational grants.
Career Timeline: 1984 - City of Fire
In 1982, Moebius met an aspiring artist named Geof Darrow, who sought Moebius out while working on Tron in Los Angeles. They became friends and, two years later, collaborated on a portfolio of prints that they called La Cité Feu, or City of Fire. Consisting of 8 prints, Darrow penciled each piece while Moebius inked and colored them. City of Fire had a print run of only 500 copies, making it one of the rarest of Moebius’ publications.
(via geofdarrow)
Comics: Philosophy & Practice
May 18-20, 2012 at the University of Chicago
In a three-day conference featuring a range of events — lectures, conversations, panels, and workshops — cartoonists will come together at the University of Chicago, long a location of word-and-image study, to take stock of their own ground-breaking work and the future of comics.
They will explore comics autobiography and journalism, the current shape of the “graphic novel,” the power of hand-drawn images to shock and provoke, historical print culture, the narrative impact of comics style, and where and how today’s most exciting work is happening.
The first of its kind, this historic conference brings together 17 world-famous cartoonists whose work has defined contemporary comics. These internationally acclaimed figures have innovated the visual styles, genres, and formats that make comics popular and fascinating; they set the terms for the possibilities of the form.
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According to the website this event is totally FREE to the public. Gonna attempt to make it out to Chicago for this!
(more info via University of Chicago)
