Showing posts with label what I'd really like to do is illustrate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label what I'd really like to do is illustrate. Show all posts
30 July 2024

“The Dorothy Paintings” and More in South Yarmouth

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The Cultural Center of Cape Cod is hosting a summer celebration of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz . The executive director of the institution,...
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03 April 2014

“Book on the Charles” in Belmont through 17 May

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The Belmont Galley of Art is featuring an exhibit of work by local children’s-book illustrator for the local children’s-book publisher Ch...
22 February 2014

Introducing (One Version of) Dr. Megalo

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A couple of weeks back, I linked to the Boston Comics Roundtable’s “Working Method” experiment , which this month is focused on a script I w...
25 January 2014

The “Owl and Pussycat” Experiment

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The Boston Comics Roundtable is conducting a group exercise we call “The Working Method.” One member writes a short comics script—only th...
05 December 2013

Princesses in Golden Dreams

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Ruth Sanderson paints really nice fairies and princesses. She’s also really nice herself; we worked together on an SCBWI bookstore event ...
12 March 2013

A Vision of Dorothy and the Emerald City

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ArtBoy Gallery  in Australia launched an online “FanBoy vs ArtBoy” exhibit of work inspired by The Wizard of Oz . For most contributors t...
06 May 2012

Chris Giarrusso’s Brother Act

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My favorite set of brothers in superhero comics appears in Chris Giarrusso ’s G-Man series . Mikey, called G-Man by his friends, is the y...
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04 December 2011

Panel One in Nightwings Seven

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Above is another example of a single comics panel showing Nightwing in several poses , instants apart. It appears in Nightwing: Freefall . A...
21 November 2011

Daredevil and the Family Circus

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A day after  analyzing some big panels in which a single character appears multiple times, I read  Tucker Stone’s Comixology interview wit...
04 March 2011

The Gorey Enigma

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Yesterday I visited the exhibit “Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey ,” at the Boston Athenaeum . It was at once familiar and strange, ...
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10 September 2010

To the Moon and Back

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Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 , by Brian Floca , is an excellent nonfiction picture book retelling the history of the first human missio...
24 June 2010

Gotta Wear Shades

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Mike Shatzkin ran the math on the declining prospects for the Kindle, Nook, Reader, and similar dedicated devices setting the course for el...
01 May 2010

Free Comics Day!

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So I’m sharing a comic for free. I just created this very simple graphic story for the workshop on comics that I’ll deliver at SCBWI New Eng...
12 April 2010

The Versatile Chris Wormell

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I’m very fond of Chris Wormell ’s picture book George and the Dragon , which I discussed back here . But I’m even more impressed by this Bri...
14 February 2010

An American Batman in London

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This weekly Robin has no Robin per se , but it’s all about the original Robin, Dick Grayson, as Batman . Cameron Stewart , artist for recen...
05 November 2009

Designing Superheroes for Fun and Profit

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Today I’m highlighting two sites devoted to the important enterprise of superhero design. I was delighted to find a pointer to The Superest ...
14 September 2009

Look at the Pretty Pictures

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At the Oz Enthusiast, Bill Campbell discusses an illustration that Dale Urey created for a never-published edition of Ozma of Oz . At some ...
21 August 2009

The Twenty-First of This Month

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Today is the birthday of Princess Ozma, ruler of Oz after the events of The Marvelous Land of Oz , the second book in the series. L. Frank B...
03 August 2009

Stylin’ on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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The Design Inspiration collected depictions of Dorothy and her companions along the Yellow Brick Road in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from t...
31 July 2009

A Field of Poppies

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This is an illustration by Lisbeth Zwerger from her 1996 edition of  The Wizard of Oz . Illustrator Paul Schmid wrote about it: One of the...
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