We’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 [...]
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Comic Art Friday: Heavenly creatures
January 13, 2012Comic 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 [...]
Comic Art Friday: Command(ette) performance
May 20, 2011It’s been quite some time since I’ve featured an image from my Bombshells! collection, so let’s rectify that omission today, shall we? For the newbies in the crowd, Bombshells! is my commission theme featuring pinups modeled after vintage bomber nose art, only with comics heroines from the classic period instead of bathing beauties. For a [...]
Comic Art Friday: Preying M.A.N.T.I.S.
May 13, 2011Once upon a time — after he’d found fame as a horrormeister by way of his Evil Dead franchise, but before he’d earned megamillion box office as the director of the Spider-Man trilogy — Sam Raimi produced a series for FOX Television, called M.A.N.T.I.S. Carl Lumbly starred as paraplegic scientist Dr. Miles Hawkins, who invented [...]
Comic Art Friday: Common Elements turns 100… with a story
May 6, 2011I believe it was Rod Stewart who once said, “Every picture tells a story, don’t it?” Rod’s tenuous grasp on English grammar aside, he has a point. Every picture does indeed tell a story, especially in the realm of comic art. And often, the story being told isn’t in the picture itself. That’s the case [...]
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