Love him or hate him, you’ve gotta remember this classic Levi’s commercial from the ’90s. It features my all-time favorite superhero: The Spike Man! And of course the classic revelation that Rob’s never had any formal art training. Shocking I know!
Category Archives: Art
A Different Kind of Sketchbook
August 20, 2008 – 3:51 pm
Anyone who’s ever been to a comic convention knows that artists will sit there sketching out doodles or detailed illos for fans. Usually in those little black hardcover books. Well, I may not be able to take this sketchbook home (heck, nobody could), but the Etch-A-Sketchist has done some amazing comic work. Yes, all on [...]
Who Watches the Watchnuts?
April 1, 2008 – 1:47 pm
No slight on Dave Gibbons, but Evan Shaner may’ve just drawn the best Watchmen piece of art I’ve ever seen. Granted, he drew the Peanuts characters as Watchmen characters but I would totally love to read the entire series done in this style. Although seeing “little Chuck” on the big blue Dr. Charlie Brown Manhattan [...]
The Liefeld Lowdown
January 21, 2008 – 12:07 pm
Let me start by saying, I seriously enjoyed Rob Liefeld’s art on his original “Hawk & Dove” mini-series for DC. It was fresh, crisp and energetic. Real good storyline too courtesy of Karl Kesel. But then something happened. Liefeld got onto New Mutants and his art starting changing. Muscles grew exponentionally. Pouches started appearing at [...]
Stan Lee Art Tribute
January 10, 2008 – 4:06 pm
LA Weekly has a really cool slideshow covering the Stan Lee: Under the Influence art opening featuring some 41 photos from the event. The art tribute was held at L.A.’s Golden Apple Comics.
Here’s a few of my favorites from the show:
Dan Goodsell’s Mr. Toast
Green Tee, Desiree Fessler
Artist Mark Bodnar with his painting, The Hopeful Bite. [...]
Lando vs. Shaft
December 20, 2007 – 9:54 pm
Matt Haley’s a pretty talented artist. Heck, I’d read the phone book every month if it were sequential art and Matt drew it starring any one of his female characters. (Particularly Ghost.) But he’s also always up for some fun, and just for kicks, he mocked up this fake Lando movie poster based off of [...]
Jeff Smith Rocks Out
September 27, 2007 – 9:59 pm
I was just over at Bone-creator Jeff Smith’s blog and was psyched to see he did the album cover and some spot illustrations for the band Say Anything’s new album “In Defense of the Genre.” I never heard of the band (though I’m a big fan of the John Cusack film of the same name), [...]
Box Office Wonder Woman
August 24, 2007 – 5:08 pm
I just finished reading Alex Robinson’s mega opus Box Office Poison the other day. I had read the issues when it was first coming out and never got a chance to finish it. So I picked up the gigantic one volume version from Top Shelf. And while the ending wasn’t exactly what I wanted (not [...]
The Last Star Wars Supper
August 21, 2007 – 1:27 pm
Fantasy painter Eric Deschamps whipped up this DaVinci Last Supper tribute for Giant magazine. I know this one’s a bit old, but I just stumbled upon it and thought it was pretty darn cool.
LOST + Shazam
August 16, 2007 – 1:32 pm
Few more of my favorite sketches from Mike Wieringo. You can see a mountain of work on his Deviant Art page too.
Mike actually drew just about the entire LOST cast in his Deviant Art gallery, including Eko! I think he nailed Charlie dead-on above, and his Sawyer is eerily life-like too.
I’ve got a soft spot [...]
