I saw this ad on the tube yesterday. And no I didn't see an example of royal armour staring out of me, part of the new exhibition at the Tower Of London.
Swipe File Archives
1. Activision. When making images to market your games, you can use computers to generate characters from the games. Or if the images in Ultimate Alliance
This is a piece of Rogue Trooper fan art that 2000AD and Dynamite artist PJ Holden drew for personal use online, coloured by Steven Denton. And these are
Here are the UK posters. But I saw the trailer for this last week and was just waiting for the Eric Idle song. "Just remember that you're standing on a
Not a traditional swipe file this one. No lightboxes, no panel comparisons, nothing like that. More an... editorial similarity. THE SPIRIT #1 Written by
Rock musician Nick Simmons has been writing and drawing the comic Incarnate for Radical Comics. But some people have seen a few similarities between that
So.. which one is which? Thanks to the New York Times In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be
Back in the Lying In The Gutters days, I ran this swipe file, between the movie poster for Vantage Point, and a splash from Pulp Heroes by Victor Santos
I remember reading (and enjoying) this Evan Dorkin comic, coming off his excellent Bill And Ted comic book (now available in glorious black and white from
What would former star English footballer and current sports presenter Jamie Redknapp look like in a silly wig? The cover to Jack Of Fables #44 knows. And
I think it's fair to say that there are certain elements of The X-Men that found their way into Jim Lee's WildC.A.T.S. So it's only fair if there's a
The Mask is a story who obtains a mysterious ancient tribal mask. Whenever he puts on the mask, Barnes experiences dream-like visions which become
One is a multi-million dollar movie starring Denzil Washington for 2010, written by a comics writer, using comic book imagery and artists such as Chris
Two films. One director. One poster.
MillarWatch: Saturday's Scotsman's magazine profiled Mark Millar this weekend. Nothing particularly new, shocking or concerning his ongoing battle with
The DCU blog The Source posted some pages from Adventure Comics #5 last night. Including this one; Which suddenly makes a post from a few weeks ago a lot
Back in February, I reported on Bob Schreck's dismissal at DC Comics; DiDio stated that he wanted to do his own continuity-free line “All Star"-like line
I love the theory of simultaneous evolution. That sometimes things happen that seem so linked but that are clearly seperate in origin. And it's true in
This is Hitman Monkey, a new Marvel character created by Daniel Way. He'll be appearing in Deadpool then his own Marvel Digital comic. And this is Rei
The opening to Spider-Man, soundtrack by Danny Elfman. Ultraviolet opening, sound track by Klaus Badelt. Surprisingly Ultraviolet has more comics in the
There appears to be only one way to sell a major event in Marvel Comics. With multiple choice Celebrity Squares... Or is it Brady Bunch? And will the
Marvel have launched their new digital comics reader, giving it a 3.0 suffix and, well, let's face it, learnt from some of the more popular comic book
Steamcrow is a company that creates odd little characters and sells them on buttons, posters, whatever they can lay their hands on, including the Monster
Did anyone else seeing Magog's mother Alba, designed by Howard Porter, on the DC blog The Source get a sudden flash to Queen Amidala from Star Wars: The
Tanker of the Comic Bloc forums first posted this possible swipe file... Brian Bolland on The Killing Joke Frank Quitely's cover for Batman And Robin #3,
Sketch cards are placed in trading card boxes, as rare collectibles, small pieces of original art that often can become very collectable. Such as this
It may not be the most obvious of all swipe files. But at Wizardworld Chicago Comic Con, Mark Millar confessed that he saw the cover to heavy metal band
The Crown of Thorns starfish from Finding Nemo, published by Boom! Comics (left) - and it's Wikipedia entry. See, that's how you do research. Now, in
Panini is one of the biggest comics publishers in Europe, best known in the US for their reprints of Marvel title. It also published Nausicaa Valley Of
Oh okay, okay it's Ryan Reynolds, recently seen as Wade Wilson/Deadpool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine and slated to play the yuckster mercenary in a