Sammy Harkham on this Fall’s new issue of Comics Anthology ‘Kramer’s Ergot.’
An all-star contributor list, all presenting three 16" x 21" pages.
Month: August 2008
Rob Kenna – known to many as ‘the good DJ’ at Windsor’s Loop has passed away.
As usual, someone else said it better already: "I always felt like The Loop was a timeless place where no matter what, the same guys would be there — spinning Blur, The Pixies and Bowie on that fabulously blinding dance floor."
The attention to detail in these is encouraging.
Some truly insane crunching of NBA statistics to visually represent playing styles.
It's an interesting illustration of the relative name recognition of well rounded players vs. role-players. Also: Joe Dumars – the outlier in the scorer / perimeter scorer blend area.
All of the films for issues from 1958 through 2000 were stored in a building where one of the anthrax-laced letters was received and had to be destroyed for fear of contamination. The magazine published work for John Severin, Jack Davis, Will Elder, Al Jaffee, Bill Ward, Steve Ditko, Gene Colan and many other notables.
Great step by step process walkthrough on the drawing / painting of a ‘lil Gotham group shot.
Apparently artist Dustin Nguyen was selling prints of this at SDCC.
Insanely thorough review of the new Dark Knight pinball machine from Stern.
New pinball vocab learned as a direct result of this article: biff bar, bangback.
Amazingly well-presented interactive infographic of 2008 US movie box office results.
I can't get over how well this visually captures so many variables.