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Comic or Movie? It’s a Superhero Media Crossover!

Tuesday 12.11.2012 , Posted by

“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

Saturday 11.17.2012 , Posted by

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Visual Bits #250> Hipsters Save Lives

Sunday 08.12.2012 , Posted by



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Visual Bits #207> Marvel-ous Comic Art

Wednesday 06.06.2012 , Posted by



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The Eclectic Art of Barry McGee is Back!

Wednesday 01.25.2012 , Posted by

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The Bay Area is the place to be in late August for Barry McGee’s 2012 exhibit. If you haven’t heard of Barry McGee and you are interested in urban art you definitely want to look him up. I’m excited to announce that the California’s Berkley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive have been awarded a $100,000 grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation to hold an exhibit for Barry McGee showing over two decades worth of his work. [Read more...]

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Awesome But True: Colored Pencil Illustrations

Monday 10.10.2011 , Posted by

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

Wednesday 02.16.2011 , Posted by


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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