Art For Art’s Sake #3 – Comic Art Makes The Best Art
by Richard Bruton
Art For Art’s Sake… the Comicon.com spin around the comic art on the Internet. Every week, we’ll be giving you the best looking comic art that I’ve seen, with a wonderful mix of new and old, familiar names and those you’ve yet to discover.
Onwards… to the art…
Betty And Veronica by Gisele Lagace
André Franquin – Fantasio in trouble (Via Ear-Slitting Trumpet), complete with some beautiful detail…
Oh, Alex Toth… always so beautiful. (Via Rainy Day Recess)
Mike Maihack – Poor, sad, sad Jon Snow…
Tula Lotay – for Line Weight 7 Exhibition on 4 May 2019 (Via Art Vault)
Aneke Murillenem – Poison Ivy
Kevin Wada – lovely Delirium commission
Gary Erskine – ‘The ROLLER GRRRLS/FRONTLINES: Requiem mash-up that only ever happened in my head. Imagine Starship Troopers crossed with Ally MacBeal!‘
Shane Oakley – Nosferatu..
Nicola Scott – The Trinity
Colin MacNeil – “Finally for this evening, here’s the cover I’ve done for the next issue of Dogbreath (It’s the one I make a giant poster of for Lawless.) from FutureQuake Press. Hope folk like my take on Alpha and co
Ok, so it’s a few weeks now since the finale of Game of Thrones, so I reckon it’s safe to post these sorts of things. Anyway, Nigel Auchterlounie (who also goes by Spleenal) is a Brit writer/artist who works for Beano and does his own rather more adult comics, including some wonderful comics on various current events.
So, this.. and more below… and, in related things… I’m really hoping no-one reading this had anything to do with the ridiculousness of the whole GoT petition? Really? Yes, the final season had its ups and downs, but setting up an online petition for it to be redone? It’s media. It’s done good or it’s done bad. That’s your opinion. But, that’s all it is. Grow the hell up.
Brendan McCarthy – Zenith design work
And while we’re talking Brendan McCarthy, here’s his Mr X Issue 1 cover, with all 4 wonderful variant covers from 1988
