“Just how thin is the line that separates movies from comics?” asks Butcher Billy, a graphic artist, illustrator and web designer from Brazil. Have we really come that far, or are our modern films just rehashing classic themes… or as he puts it, exchanging “ink” for “pixels?” As we can see from his new series, The Superhero Media Crossover Project, despite the massive advances in technology and a complete change in format, much of our new movies owe a serious debt to the comic artists of the past. [Read more...]
Visual Bits #316 > Magnificent Marvel Mash-Ups
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Visual Bits #250> Hipsters Save Lives

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Visual Bits #207> Marvel-ous Comic Art

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Awesome But True: Colored Pencil Illustrations
Coming straight from a colored pencil parallel universe, the artwork of Awesome But True is part high-school nostalgia and part psychedelic mind bender. Featuring a host of imaginative, undefinable characters while showing no fear of many vibrant colors, the pieces have been buzzing around Portland Oregon. Get more trippy goodness from artist Sean Christensen at seanchristensen.blogspot.com or on Flickr. [Read more...]
Vintage Comic Women Take Charge

Kicking butt right out of the late 1940′s, these classic adventure comics had girl power down before it was a catch phrase. Illustrated by the late Alex Schomburg, each issue featured action-packed adventures, starring such characters as Princess Pantha and Judy of the Jungle. Famed comic artist Stan Lee called Schomburg the Norman Rockwell of comic book art and admired his “cartoony” style saying “One could never be sure if Alex was an illustrator who approached his work like a cartoonist, or a cartoonist who chose to render his artwork like an illustrator.”
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