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Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese – A Pop Culture Hound Goes To Malta

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Chris Thompson writes for Bleeding Cool; My love affair with Hugo Pratt‘s Corto Maltese really took hold on my most recent trip to Italy. Although beloved by the French, Pratt was an Italian who spent his formative years in Venice. …

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Commission And Be Damned – The Green Princess

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Johnny Lee Achziger writes for Bleeding Cool. Certain creator names redacted at his request; Back in the mid 1970s I wrote a book called “The Green Princess” and since I couldn’t sell it (it wasn’t all that great), I decided …

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Blogger Answers Bleeding Cool with Commission Woes

Posted on December 2, 2012 by Rick Verbanas

There was quite a lot of feedback to Rich’s piece recently on taking your chances when it comes to art commissions. Anj, a blogger for Supergirl Comic Box Commentary, posted the following piece in response. Bleeding Cool is reprinting Anj’s blog with …

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Commission And Be Damned

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Lots of comic book artists take private commissions for work, often using trademarked characters they’ve worked on, often charging hundreds, even thousands of dollars. It can pay better than a publisher page rate, and the more successful you are as a comic …

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Fake Brendan McCarthy Paradax Art On eBay

Posted on October 27, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Found on eBay Brendan McCarthy: ”I really put my greatest effort into making sure that the Paradax comic was going to look amazing. It’s a great personal favourite of mine. Paradax 1 and Strange Days 2 I think aresome of …

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Seth Reedy – A New Rob Granito For 2012?

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Seth Reedy is a comic book artist. Ish. He makes himself available for work and promotes himself readily online, taking comissions and tattoo work. But some of his examples seem a little… familiar. Yet he claims all the credit for …

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Academy Of Art University – Piecing Together Figments

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Rich Johnston

The comic industry is growing in a lateral way, leading business in a new direction that is hard to track or predict. It’s certainly a very interesting time to be a comic book creator. Comic books have generally been regarded …

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A Look Inside Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, The Director’s Cut

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

Coming up later, lots of discussion of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. I got to speak to both director Timur Bekmembetov and screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith at the weekend, and will be bringing you news of what we spoke of. Firstly, though, …

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Selling The Todd McFarlane Cover To Spider-Man #1… And More

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Rich Johnston

  Heritage Auctions is selling the original art to the cover of Spider-Man #1 by Todd McFarlane, on behalf of its owner Martin Shamus, father of Wizard Magazine‘s Gareb and Steven Shamus. The cover of Wizard #1 was famously based …

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Roy Lichtenstein’s Take On Tony Abruzzo Half Way To Nine Figures

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Rich Johnston

On the left is the comic panel by Tony Abruzzo, located by David Barsalou. And on the right is Sleeping Girl by Roy Lichtenstein. Guess which one has just sold at auction for almost forty-five million dollars. Yup.  

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The Art Of The Avengers

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Rich Johnston

One gallery, many top artists, all unofficial images of The Avengers. This is Assemble, a new show at Gallery 1988 on Melrose, Los Angeles, open until Sunday. Just in case any of Marvel’s lawyers want to pop by. Or their …

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Win Your Own Alex Ross And Jae Lee Original Sketch Cover Of The Shadow #1

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Today, Dynamite published a new Shadow comic today, by Garth Ennis and Aaron Campbell. Visually it’s rather faithful to earlier versions, while the writing gives us a hard pulp take on the character. But what if The Shadow could look …

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Sixteen Alex Ross Original Sketch Covers For The Shadow #1

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Retailers could get one of these Alex Ross hand sketched covers for The Shadow for every 250 issues of The Shadow #1 they ordered from Dynamite Entertainment. One retailer has already sold his for $2000, plans to sell a Jae …

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Fozzie Bear And Gonzo Check Out Some Ralph McQuarrie Art At Comic-Con

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

Well, of course The Muppets are admirers of Ralph McQuarrie’s work.

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The Different Worlds Of Disney’s Video Game Mash-Up Movie, Wreck-It Ralph

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

There are multiple video game worlds in the next Disney toon, Wreck-It Ralph, from a Halo-esque alien landscape, to the colourful landscape made of candy that forms the playing field of the Mario Kart-inspired Sugar Rush. And then there’s the …

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It’s Not Rocket Science! by George Peter Gatsis – Bringing 3D And 2D Together.

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Rich Johnston

George Peter Gatsis writes for Bleeding Cool; Greetings everyone. This is one of my characters, Joe King… No seriously… and don’t call him Sheryl. Joe is hanging around a tropical planet that’s pretending to be a sun. ( Long story …

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Seeing Sharon Moody’s Work For Myself by Scott Edelman

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Scott Edelman writes for Bleeding Cool; I headed to Manhattan Saturday for a visit to the Bernarducci Meisel Gallery so I could see for myself those Sharon Moody paintings which had so ticked me off three weeks ago. Would experiencing …

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Flash, Detective Comics And Green Lantern Art Stolen From Joe Giella

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Rich Johnston

CLassic DC Comics inker Joe Giella recently contacted the Nassau County, NY Police Department in regards to the following missing [and presumed stolen] artwork… the list is as follows: Silver Age Flash # 144 pages 1 & 9; Detective Comics …

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