Burrito cake, vows including meticulously designed charts, robocop ice sculpture.
Author: adamkempa
Early ‘Jimmy Corrigan’ Original page sells on eBay for $6500.
Too rich for my blood, but considering other prices fetched, this is more than fair for such an early page. This particular page is also of special interest to type / lettering nerds: Four unique logo treatments!
Robert Goodin’s ‘cover version’ of the Cover to Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories #211.
I've been following the Covered blog – where cartoonists reinterpret favorite comic book covers – since it was announced, and this is by far my favorite. I'd love to see a whole series of deanthropomorphized covers.
Citing Alan Moore's Swamp Thing hardcover as an example, the author makes a good point: that simple investments like recoloring dated-looking work can pay huge dividends by increasing accessability to new fans. Obvious counterargument: watchmen. Oh, those colors.
Tom Gauld has posted excerpts from his sketchbook on Flickr.
I love Tom Gauld's work lots.
1:45 in. I do not think that means what you think it means.
Shadowy Men on Shadowy Planet’s 1988 tribute to the Ventures Christmas album.
"Faster Santa Claus, Ho! Ho! Ho!"
A page from Laura Park’s sketchbook.
Based on this flickr feed and her two 'Do Not Disturb My Waking Dream' minis, I am predicting great, great things. Very reminiscent of pages from the Acme Novelty Datebooks in both quality and density.
The syncopation is a little weird, so I couldn't tell what it was that was being played until I read the tags.
Pinup model Bettie Page died this week. I don’t think I ever posted images of the insane push pin mosaic I made in 2006, but since it used an early photo of her as source material, this seems like an appropriate time to do that.
This is a full size, standard 5 foot by 4 foot cork board, covered entirely by colored pushpins. I did roughly one row of pins every few days during 2006. If I were the type to call things I made ‘Pieces,’ this ‘piece’ would be titled ‘Pinup.’
There’s really not much backstory to this – the concept occurred to me and seemed pretty fun, and I was in the middle of a long period of indulging my tendency to make ridiculous mosaics. Many projects of this nature (ie Large-scale mosaics built from non-traditional art supplies) yield cries of “Too much free time” and the like, but I would submit that in practice the actual assembly is meditative in a weird, procedural, decidedly non-mystical way. The finished mosaic now lives in my Wife’s office.
Below: Pins in bulk, source material, and a peek at the workarea. More angles of this mosaic, and two other ridiculous mosaics can be seen at mosaics.kempa.com.
