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cultureCharles Forsman Interview
This past year, as everything from Broadway theaters to suburban cineplexes closed for the pandemic, streaming TV became storytelling’s biggest stage...
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cultureBill Sienkiewicz vs. The Shadow
A Bill Sienkiewicz portfolio: The Shadow, introduced by Benjamin Marra. "I'm not sure what the exact sequencing of these images is, or what order...
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cultureBill Sienkiewicz vs. Conan
Acclaimed cartoonist Benjamin Marra introduces a gallery of Bill Sienkiewicz's Conan illustrations.
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cultureLegionarios Del Espacio
I can hear the sounds of disco music looking at these covers. Or maybe it's Black Sabbath.
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cultureMilo Manara vs. Mozart
My favorite image from this Manara series is the image depicting the crew of the opera prepping, cleaning, and building sets for the opera stage....
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cultureMilo Manara vs Fellini
Manara never lets you forget that he's a master image-maker. I believe his collaboration with or inspiration drawn from Frederico Fellini...
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cultureBurne Hogarth vs. King Arthur
Burne Hogarth started the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. He also is known for a number of instructional books on drawing.
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cultureA Michael Kaluta cover gallery
When I look at Kaluta's artwork for comic book covers the thing that always strikes me is that the work doesn't...
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cultureHorror Magazine: A Selection of Covers
Horror was an Italian comics magazine that was a contemporary of the Warren publications in the U.S. These covers are decidedly Italian feel to me.
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cultureA Joe Kubert cover gallery
The thing that I love the most about Joe Kubert’s art is the speed with which it looks like it was made. Each mark embodies...
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cultureA Neal Adams cover gallery
The history of comics pivots on the career of Neal Adams. He ushered an era of naturalism illustration to comic books. It had...
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cultureA Bill Sienkiewicz Cover Gallery
These covers by Bill Sienkiewicz are a good chronology of his artistic development through the 80s and 90s...
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cultureA Ken Barr Gallery
Pulp art doesn’t get much better than Ken Barr’s work. Though his rendering of form is very much in the vein of naturalism, his color palette...
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cultureA Paul Gulacy Cover Gallery
When I first saw Paul Gulacy's work I hated it. I think it was the Terminator: Secondary Objectives series he penciled...
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cultureJim Steranko’s Mediascene Magazine
Like a lot of fans, I often lament Steranko's truncated comics career. It's clear he had bigger ambitions than...
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cultureStephen Fabian: A Gallery of Science Fiction & Fantasy Art Masterpieces
Fabian's forms are lyrical in their own sense. The curves are like the language...
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cultureKen Kelly’s Heroes
I didn't know that Ken Kelly was Frank Frazetta's nephew until I started researching his work in earnest a...
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cultureFrank Frazetta – Iconic Pieces From A Legend
I had an illustration professor who said book publishers back in the day believed they could...
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culturePaul Gulacy on Black Widow
Before Black Widow was humanized on screen in the MCU Gulacy did it here with this portfolio. She's not a...
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cultureJohn Pound: Heaven and Hell
I'm not familiar with John Pound's work. It is staggeringly good though. It's got the right level of...
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cultureGeorge Tuska on T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents
Every time I look at images of the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents I wonder why they weren't a bigger...
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culturePaul Gulacy on Swamp Thing
I'm not sure if these Swamp Thing images by Gulacy work if I don't know it's Gulacy who did them...
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cultureEarl Norem’s Action Figure Art
I had the Transformers Big Looker Storybook "The Battle for Cybertron" when I was a kid. Norem's paintings...
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cultureJohn Schoenherr’s Dune
There's a lot of artwork for Dune out there that's been done since the book was published. A lot...
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cultureFrom Men’s Magazines to Marvel, the Curtis Magazine covers of Earl Norem
From Men's Magazines to Marvel, the Curtis Magazine covers of Earl Norem
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cultureWill Eisner vs. The Spirit
When I think of Will Eisner the first thing that comes to mind is not watercolor paintings. The first thing is heavy black-and-white drawings, deep dark...
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cultureSimon Bisley: Dangerous Fantasy
I remember distinctly when I first saw Bisley's work. It was the cover of the first issue of the Lobo...
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cultureHow John Schlesinger’s Homeless and Lonesome ‘Midnight Cowboy’ Rode His Way to the Top and Became the First and Only X-rated Movie to Win a Best Picture Oscar
A friend of mine, an American painter living in London, had read the book and suggested that I look at it. I read it and thought ‘If I’m going to make a...
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cultureSacrilege: Shared Themes of ‘Blade Runner 2049’ and Naoki Urasawa’s ‘Pluto’
Writer Sean Witzke explores the shared themes of a barren future with Villeneuve's 2017 film 'Blade Runner 2049' and Naoki Urasawa's manga 'Pluto'
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cultureStephen Fabian: Story-Telling Artist
Anyone who has had an interest in heroic fantasy in the 1970s -1980s would surely recognize the name of Stephen Fabian ...
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cultureMagic and Ink: An Interview with Artist Jim Mahfood
Chloe Maveal sits down with artist Jim Mahfood for an interview about his career, cultural influences, and 'Sorcerers'.