While we were off gallivanting about the Hawaiian islands (more on that sojourn to follow), I received the sad (and to me, unexpected) news of the passing of comics artist Ernie Chan. Coming so closely on the heels of two other tremendous losses from among my personal favorites in the comic art field — specifically, [...]
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Comic Art Friday: Remembering Ernie Chan
June 1, 2012Comic Art Friday: Avengers assemble!
May 4, 2012Unless you’ve been living in an underwater grotto for the past year or so, you know what today is: the U.S. premiere of Marvel Studios’ summer blockbuster, The Avengers. (Also known as Avengers Assemble, if you happen to live in the U.K. In which case, you already saw the movie a week ago.) While I [...]
Comic Art Friday: Tony DeZuniga needs your help!
April 27, 2012I was deeply saddened recently to hear of the dire health circumstances faced by one of my favorite comics artists of all time: the legendary Tony DeZuniga, co-creator of the DC Comics characters Jonah Hex (don’t blame Tony for the abominable movie) and Black Orchid. Tony suffered a stroke earlier this month in his native [...]
Comic Art Friday: Skulduggery
April 20, 2012I know we just did a riff on Cloak and Dagger not too long ago, but you know how it is in comics — the same tropes keep popping up again and again. In this Common Elements tableau drawn by the talented Eric Koda, our hero and heroine find themselves confronted by Spy Smasher, a [...]
Comic Art Friday: Children of the atom
March 23, 2012I’ll get to the subject at hand momentarily, but first, I’m going to vent just a tad. (If you wish to avoid my angst-ridden screed, feel welcome to scroll down to the big picture, and start reading beneath it.) Usually, around this time of year, I spend a joyous and fun-filled weekend at WonderCon, here [...]
Comic Art Friday: Ty and Tandy, sitting in a tree
March 2, 2012Somehow, when I posted the art I picked up at WonderCon last spring, I absent-mindedly missed a piece. (What can I say? Senior moment.) Well… better late than never. This nifty sketch (and yes, I am old enough to still say “nifty”) of Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger came my way courtesy of Ian D. Walker, [...]
Comic Art Fans: Did someone call for a Doctor?
February 24, 2012In recent years, many (indeed, too many) of my longtime comics-artist heroes have shuffled off this mortal coil, never to draw again. The advance of age and ill health has deprived us of many of the greats — Gene Colan, Jim Aparo, Jim Mooney, Dick Giordano, Dave Simons… the list goes sadly on. Others have [...]
Comic Art Friday: Two hawks, no doves
February 17, 2012For 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 [...]
My funny Valentine
February 9, 2012For those of you who’ve expressed an interest in my burgeoning voice acting career, here’s a little something I voiced recently. It’s a promotional video for a Bay Area men’s chorus that delivers Singing Valentines. NIA Creative, an awesome marketing and production company, produced the project. Fun stuff… …and if you decide to purchase a [...]
Comic 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 [...]
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