Art For Art’s Sake # 240: Reed! Reed! I Think I Wanna Learn To Play The Banjo
by Richard Bruton
Art For Art’s Sake – taking you through the world of the Ninth Arts every week, rain, snow, wind… nothing gets in our way…
And we shall start with the brilliant Stephen Collins on the torture of school photographs… [In the UK, we have school photo days and the company that does them offers you a series of different ‘packs’ – different size photos, keyrings etc… it’s a nightmare…
The brilliant Zoe Thorogood – now she’s designing beer labels… ‘I designed the label for this year’s Thought Bubble beer so excited for this year, luv that con, come see me and grab a beer in uhhhhh November ?‘
Louie Joyce celebrating the Craig Hamilton & P. Craig Russell Aquaman…
Which one you say? Well this one from 1985 – cover by Craig Hamilton and P. Craig Russell…
Marc Laming – Constantine with Swamp Thing pencils…
And with inks…
Francesco Francavilla – American Werewolf In London…
John McCrea – Dredd
Linzie Hunter – some people
Angela Wu – ‘Little early birthday present for myself. – Finally finished my werewolf by night poster. Michael Giacchino gave me everything I ever wanted from a MCU project so wanted to do a little pulpy homage to his take on the characters -also Marvel pls put me on a tigra book’… yep, I’d love to see that!
John K Snyder – Art Deco Batman commission
Brett Blevins – Magik
Philippe Druillet –
Alexye –
Mike Becker – Doom!!!!
Paul Pope Lone Wolf & Cub commission
And more Paul Pope, this time from the Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz book published in 2015.
And we shall end this week with a brilliant idea from Lee Gatlin, who proposes ‘a zine called FFHQ that is just slice-of-life Baxter Building goings-on’. Yes! Yes!
