She's from Rivne, Ukraine, and although extensively trained in fine arts, seems to aim for a sort of impressionist-inspired 'intentional primitivism,' a bit like Henri Matisse's latter stuff, perhaps....
I love how the sketchiness of the inking works perfectly with this rainy scene. It's from book one of the terrific series Aya de Yopougon, scripted by Marguerite Abouet, recounting her life spent living in a small town in Côte d'Ivoire, late 70's. At least, that's the starting point. I'll try to do a proper overview later,...
Haha, gotta love that last panel for the Red Rackham vibes. 😁...
Copyright and Trademark 1988 Lucasfilm, Ltd
Copyright and Trademark 1988 Lucasfilm, Ltd
This is from the book Les cybers ne sont pas des hommes ("Cybers are not men"), in which François Landon wrote the script. The book follows a format in which text appears on one page, then a wordless splash page on the next. I found the 1st/3rd-person narrative rather surreal, almost cynical in tone, in which a couple...
The back cover from the album we covered a couple weeks ago....
Copyright and Trademark 1988 Lucasfilm, Ltd
Copyright and Trademark 1988 Lucasfilm, Ltd
Baynes was an English artist who illustrated a landslide of works in an impressive variety of styles over the years. The turning point came from... well:...
Miou! Miou, get back here!...
Cruising Tumblr today, I was intrigued by the top-left piece. It reminded me somewhat of the work of the late, great Patrick Nagel. So then, to work finding more......
This little story is from Romain Dutreix' darkly-hilarious Impostures series, which are collections of satirical tributes to famous BD cartoons....
Note: this is all based on the prior post, its comments, and maybe a little bit of research on my end....
Someone in an Asterix forums recently complained that Obelix never got a proper love interest, and it got me thinking... I mean, it seems that across Asterix, Lucky Luke, Tintin and probably many other popular series, very few (or outright none?) of the main characters discovered a bona fide romantic partner, and I suspect that...
This story finds Corto reuniting with many friends from previous stories, searching for the Mu, the fabled lost city. The Mu story is incredibly convoluted, making this a particularly hard translation. Lots of statements contradicting previous statements. It took me a while to come to the decision that Pratt was doing this on...
This is the cover of a book, and unfortunately I found the contents rather mediocre by the standards of all the fun fan-based Tintin art out there. So I'm going to pivot by moving on to a few more hand-selected goodies I've uploaded below. Some of them involve film references or artist homages:...
Well, well!...
I admit... I'm sort of a huge, pompous blowhard when it comes to the strident truism "great art or not, a good story still needs good storytelling and plot!"...
I don't know much about Olsen other than he has a Danish-Norwegian surname and his art vaguely fits under the umbrella of 'LC.' Specifically, I enjoy the playful style he uses in his comics. More samples from Tiny Dracula here:...
https://arthive.com/res/media/img/oy800/work/f58/188515.webp...
I'm kinda stressed these days, but much thanks to @https://lemm.ee/u/[email protected] and @https://lemm.ee/u/Taniwha420 for filling in!...
L'histoire vraie d'Ersin Karabulut, célèbre artiste de bande dessinée turc....
I rather randomly picked up the first four books in this series a couple decades ago when I was in France. It was a rather new experience for me as a Canadian to read a graphic novel with adult content. It is funny! I also learned a lot of vernacular and adult French in the process. Plus, I really liked the vibrant art....
This is by Tyler Miles Lockett, and the first in his Atalanta series....
