Dain Fagerholm’s wonderment of the moving image. Hand drawn and animated as a gif. Many more to be found on his site.
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Archive for the ‘Illustration’ Category
Clever and mad
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Oh Nein! Moebius ist tot!
Saturday, March 10th, 2012
Er ist der Größte, der Beste, der Eleganteste, der Feinste, der Innovativste, der Schönste von allen: Der großartige Zeichner Jean Giraud alias Moebius, das Genie, ist Samstag im Alter von 73 Jahren gestorben. Sein Rang und seine Qualität sind gar nicht hoch genug einzuschätzen, anderen Granden wie Daumier, Goya, Lautrec, Janssen oder Busch steht er in nichts nach.
Germanga – Neuerscheinungen 2012
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011
Das neue Jahr steht vor der Tür und mit ihm ein neuer Schwung an deutschen Mangazeichner-Hoffnungen. Während die hiesige Landschaft an Eigenproduktionen mit großer Vielfalt glänzen konnte – dank junger Talente wie Melanie Schober, Anike Hage und Nheira, die von den großen Verlagen aufgebaut und gefördert wurden – konnte man dies von der Genreauswahl nicht behaupten.Von vielen wurde der deutsche Shonen Manga für tot erklärt: Shonen gelten als Jungs-Manga und thematisieren oft die actionreichen Geschichten junger Helden, die für ihre Ziele kämpfen müssen.
Ein Vertreter dieses Genres ist Nightmare Hunter Nemo, das kürzlich vom Tokyopop Verlag angekündigt wurde und für Rummel in der Szene sorgte, glaubten doch nur noch wenige an den deutschen Shonen-Manga. Gezeichnet von Martin Geier, der mit seinen jungen 21 Jahren bereits die Qualitätsmesslatte deutlich auf japanisches Niveau anhebt, darf man auf sein Erstlingswerk gespannt sein. Ich bin es auf jeden Fall!
The Studio
Friday, December 16th, 2011
This book is THE ULTIMATIVE POP ART BOOK! And: I LOVE IT! In 1975 Jeffrey Jones, Barry Windsor-Smith, Michael William Kaluta and Bernie Wrightson formed The Studio, the blueprint for all illustrators menagerie ateliers from then on, in the middle of Manhattan, center of the volcano called comic & pulp industry. Though young they were not only among the best-known, top-ranked and innovative narrative artists. They also formed the avantgarde of their species crafting a hippiesk neosymbolistic premangamäßig illustration style. No one ever after reached this level and this book compiles their masterpieces, what a joy! 
To admit: I always geared to get this book, published in England in 1979 by Dragon’s Dream and long-time not available. And now it is there, thank amazon! Never ever let it go. Order of the day: >BUY!
Barry Windsor-Smith: Opus and Storm
Sunday, November 27th, 2011
Barry Windsor Smith is probably the most famous artist of “The Studio”-group. His work is most famous for drawing Conan, imagine this character being an elegant and naive figure, much more Perceval than Schwarzenegger, absolutely not the Conan clichee but immensly important for comic art development.
I love these two books: OPUS 1 gives an overview, Storm: Lifedeath is an ultimate masterpiece in comic art. Just view his maner setting lines and emotions, composing pages and tensions, go >via 1 and >via 2
Jeff Jones: Life could be an Idyll
Friday, November 25th, 2011
Jeff Jones is one of the most interesting illustrators whose work I have ever seen. Born as Jeffrey Durwood Jones he/she died as Jeffrey Catherine early in 2011, passed away, what a great loss! Jeff Jones was a member of “The Studio”. I do not know any other artist being just as soft, easy, swift and genial in handing a brush illustration.
Here are two articles: 1st the Wikipedia article, 2nd an interview by Laurie J. Anderson for sequentialart.com, 3rd one on JVJ Publishing, all are very much worth reading. To honor Jeff Jones please view and buy his work. His masterpiece “Idyll” is hard to get. But here is a new book just published: “Jeffrey Jones: A Life in Art” which will be a great pleasure for anybody loving extreme good illustration. >via
CREEPY: Bernie Wrightson
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
My mission is to reintroduce the champions and master craftsmen of comic art. Please welcome: Mr. Bernie Wrightson! This book, which I´d like to recommend to your attention, is a collection of his masterpieces in horror and astonishing tales: “Creepy Presents: Bernie Wrightson: The Definitive Collection of Bernie Wrightson’s Stories and Illustrations from the Pages of Creepy and Eerie”. Bernie Wrightson formed an artists loft commune in New York together with Barry Windsor Smith, Jeff Jones and Michael William Kaluta who revolutioned comic art and ilustration, each of them and as a group … – which is a story for another day. So first buy this book as christmas present for your best friends. >via
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Sunday, November 13th, 2011
Steffi Schütze and Christian Nauck are a team of very talented illustrators. Click through the galleries of their works in characters, paintings and comics and gather some inspiration on a sunny sunday afternoon in november. >via
Illustrated mashup
Sunday, October 23rd, 2011Evan Hecox for Incase
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
Evan Hecox from The Arkitip Chronicles on Vimeo.
Evan Hecox plus ‘Yerba Buena Bump’ by Tommy Guerrero from ‘Lifeboats and Follies’ on Galaxia Records, Spring 2010