For my birthday a couple of months back, the Pirate Queen gave me a fistful of cash to put toward new art commissions. That’s what you get for the guy who has… well, not everything, but pretty close. Wanting to stretch my windfall as far as possible, I turned to fellow collector Damon Owens for [...]
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Comic Art Friday: Two hawks, no doves
February 17, 2012Comic Art Friday: RIP, Al Rio (1962-2012)
February 3, 2012I was shocked and saddened on Tuesday morning — as were many of my fellow comics fans and comic art aficionados — to receive the news that artist and former Disney animator Al Rio had passed away in his native Brazil, the result of an apparent suicide. Those of you who have followed Comic Art [...]
Comic Art Friday: Somebody scream!
January 20, 2012You ever have one of those days when you just wanna scream? Tyroc and Songbird have those all the time. A hypersonic scream seems like such a bizarre superpower that it’s actually rather amazing how many comic book characters possess it. In addition to the subjects of the dazzling panel above — commissioned from the [...]
Comic Art Friday: Heavenly creatures
January 13, 2012We’re not fully two weeks into 2012, and already it’s been an exciting art year at the new Casa de Swan. Here’s the first of several reasons why. I frequently discuss with other comic art collectors our approaches to our theme commissions. Many of my fellow hobbyists present elaborately detailed scenarios to the artists they [...]
Comic Art Friday: The best of 2011
December 30, 20112011 was another light year on the commission front, due to economic circumstances with which I’m certain many of you could identify. It was, however, what the late film star Spencer Tracy might have termed a Katharine Hepburn kind of year — there wasn’t a lot of meat on its bones, but what there was, [...]
Comic Art Friday: Nice people rock!
December 23, 2011As most of you are aware, I celebrated yet another anniversary of my birth on Monday of this week. (That’s December 19, for the calendar-impaired.) That very day, I arrived home from a fun time touring the holiday sights of downtown San Francisco with The Daughter only to discover this beauty of a birthday gift [...]
Comic Art Friday: Three Vals and a Bob
October 28, 2011Seeing that we have only three days left in National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I thought it appropriate to feature an all-female image today. As regular readers know, I’m fond of creating obscure concepts for my Common Elements commission series. Sometimes, though, it’s just as successful when the connection between the characters is obvious — [...]
Comic Art Friday: In which Uncle Swan does you a patriotic solid
July 22, 2011In case you were planning to see Captain America: The First Avenger, which premieres in theaters nationwide today… Here’s how it ends. I just saved you the price of a ticket. You’re welcome. And that’s your Comic Art Friday.
Comic Art Friday: Beware all enterprises that require new clothes
June 10, 2011So, yeah, I’m a little bit bummed that NBC didn’t pick up David E. Kelley’s Wonder Woman pilot as a series. As a WW fanatic of some 40 years’ seniority, I’d welcome any chance to see my favorite Amazon back on the airwaves. I thought Kelley’s concept — what I heard and saw of it, [...]
Comic Art Friday: You can call him Al
June 3, 2011Never underestimate the power of the Internet for bringing people together. Back in March, shortly before WonderCon, a visitor to my Comic Art Fans gallery left a comment on one of my earliest Common Elements commissions, this charming tableau featuring Black Canary and the original 1940s Black Cat. I recognized the commenter’s name immediately: Al [...]
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