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Jun 18

Rare drawings from artist George Bridgman, inspiration to Norman Rockwell …

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Rare drawings from artist George Bridgman, inspiration to Norman Rockwell …
… at Rockefeller Center), painter-muralist Gifford Beal, comic creator Will Eisner, illustrator Edmund F. Ward, illustrator Andrew Loomis, artist/teacher Kimon Nicolaides (known for his widely-used book, The Natural Way to Draw), abstractionist …
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Inspectors on fleetwide hunt for anything offensive
Some were obvious: porn, profanity-laced comics, torture videos and even a pubic hair placed in a logbook. But they also removed milder items, such as copies of an … Other debatable items: World War II-era aircraft nose art, a Princess Leia action …
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Talent spotters: Camberwell Degree Show 2013
Camberwell College of Arts's degree show is open to the public this week and includes work from photography, illustration, design, painting and sculpture graduates. There are hundreds of … There were some excellent graphic novels and comic art on …
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Jun 11

Latest Illustration News

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Hay Festival 2013: Quentin Blake's illustration lecture
To begin with, for instance, there was the retired junior schoolteacher who came up to me a few months ago in the Royal Academy to say how much she had made use in her teaching of books that I had illustrated. The one she particularly mentioned was Our …
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Bipartisan bromance? Christie, Obama get illustrated by Mad Magazine
The online edition of the famed humor publication created an illustration poking fun at Christie and Obama's bipartisan relationship — which was rekindled Tuesday when the governor led the president on a tour of the Jersey Shore's recovery from …
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Jun 09

DC Comics Shifts ComiXology Pricing Window

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DC Comics Shifts ComiXology Pricing Window
Many comic fans may be settled in their digital comics buying habits by now, but that doesn't mean publishers' practices are set in stone. This week, a reader alerted CBR that DC Comics had shifted the window for when it reduced prices on its monthly …
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Hausu's Brilliant Debut Defies Genres
I can see why that mindset would transfer rather easily to comics fandom: It's not about who Batman is beating up, or how Batman is beating them up; it's about how DC Editorial is beating up the bullpen responsible for writing the Batman. Those …
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Comedy Central's Stand-Up app puts comics on your iPhone
Finally the app gives you the ability to SEARCH our stockpile of over 700 comedians and 6,000 videos — just type in a comic's name or the title of a specific clip. Our library has everything you're looking for, except a librarian. (We are working on …
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Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin on digital comics and the medium's …
Brian K. Vaughan is a writer best known for his work on comic series like Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, and Saga, and he's also spent several seasons working on Lost. Currently he's devoting himself to the television adaptation of Stephen King's Under …
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Jun 06

Rachel Rising Characters Were Secretly in Strangers in Paradise

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Rachel Rising Characters Were Secretly in Strangers in Paradise
In the issue, Katina Choovanski (Katchoo) holds one of her first major gallery shows, and among the numerous splash pages of people responding to her art, or simply captioned looks at her paintings, you get the page seen at right (in the book), which …
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HASSAN PATTERSON
When I wasn't looking at record covers and listening to music I was always watching cartoons on television and reading comic books. Guys like John Buscema … “Rick taught me a lot about painting and the art of selling it,” he tells me. When asked to …
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Jun 06

Duckworth aims to be 'illustration of what you can truly do'

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Duckworth aims to be 'illustration of what you can truly do'
WASHINGTON — Jeff Person, a Falls, Va., native on his fifth internship at the U.S. Capitol, wheeled into freshman U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth's office several weeks ago and blurted out, "Wow. I want to work here." Person has arthrogryposis, a congenital …
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British Wildlife Illustration Workshop
Wildwood Trust, Herne Bay. Run by: Kentish Stour Countryside Partnership. Take a tour of Wildwood and draw animals from life, then work up your sketches into finished illustrations during an indoor session. The day will include a 'meet an animal' session.
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Dyslexia and the Poor
To the Editor: Opinion Twitter Logo. Connect With Us on Twitter. For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT. “Defining My Dyslexia,” by Blake Charlton (Op-Ed, May 23), gives the …
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From coast to canvas: The art of biological illustration
I can read through pages and pages describing some ecological process or critter life cycle and be completely bogged down until, I hit the magical beacon of hope that brings it all together. An illustration. The same holds true for magazines, aquarium …
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May 28

Latest Comic Style Painting News

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Busy calendar frolics in May's family fun, shuffles into June
World-class performers and musicians re-imagine the film along with flying ensembles, equestrian acts, comics and surprises from favorites like The Flying Wallendas and The Flying Pages. Tickets start at $ 10. The May 30 show is a peanut-free preview …
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Talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel denies dropping .9 million on topless painting …
Funnyman Jimmy Kimmel paid $ 1.9 million for a nude painting of Bea Arthur that he gave to his comic pal Jeffrey Ross. Biggest surprise of my life. Thank you @jimmykimmel – the most generous guy in the world!#BeaArthur ❤ moby.to/ohh9xo. — Jeffrey Ross …
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May 26

Aurélie Neyret (Clochette) – Character Design & Illustration

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to purchase: http://www.payloadz.com/go?id=1227311 In this two part download, Aurélie Neyret (Clochette) demonstrates her approach to character design and il…

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