Category: Artist Spotlight
I got quite a bit of feedback in comments, on Instagram and on Facebook for Part One of the Alex Ross Timeless Covers rankings. The first piece looked at the bottom half of the recently released 32 covers, while here we will look at the...
[caption id="attachment_90644" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lebeau Underwood[/caption] I have been extremely lucky to cross paths with some amazing comics talent over the past few years, and this year, even in quarantine, my luck continues! It turns out that professional comics inker Lebeau Underwood lives in my neighborhood, and while...
Life has a way of forming unions we never dreamed possible. Superman teamed up with Muhammad Ali. Japanese monster Godzilla appeared on screen with American creation King Kong. Sadly the story I will tell is how a San Diego Comic-Con worker could have prevented the greatest possible...
Whether you are drawn to the bleak, gothic aesthetics, or just the fact that he’s a blind guy beating the absolute crap out of thugs in Hell’s...
We are taking our second look at the first appearance of today's greatest comic artists. Today's greatest artists and writers will be looked at from a new perspective. For our second installment, we will take a look at 3 greats. Chris Claremont, Jim Lee, and Ryan Stegman....
Frank Frazetta. To many, he is the greatest fantasy artist of all time. To others, he was the man whose talents lifted the comic book art form. To a young lady named Sara, he was something more…Frank Frazetta was her grandfather. Gatekeeper to the...
If you read these blogs you see so many superhero reports that you would assume that it is the only genre of comic books you can make money on. If you believe that then you are missing out. For this article, I will focus on the most...
When the names of the great comic book artists are mentioned he is absent. Rarely does his work shine because he did not think it to be significant. Instead, he was happier contributing to others' work through his inks and pencil work. Even though he would not...
In late September, Marvel began rolling out the first of 32 unique Alex Ross Timeless Variant Covers. These are an Alex Ross take on many of Marvel's most classic comic characters, and over the course of about five weeks will appear on the cover of comic issues related to...
Since many of us have so many social media platforms we interact with every day, there is the potential to miss a post that would normally have given us some pause to think, laugh, or maybe run out to our local comic shop or online to eBay...