Illustrations by Jillian Tamaki:
Leading Men Age, But Their Love Interests Don’t
http://www.vulture.com/2013/04/leading-men-age-but-their-love-interests-dont.html
What it feels like I should be wearing as Autumn draws on Down Under…
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I missed seeing my mother on mother’s day because I was busy buying comics. So I thought I’d draw her something nice. The obvious thing would be to document something from our recent mother-daughter trip to Key West. One of my favorite parts of the trip was when we ate at Blue Heaven and we shared a bowl of their delicious carrot curry soup.
And then of course I thought haha what if we were fighting instead of sharing and talking like chickens??!?
By the time I thought hey maybe my mom won’t like this? It was too late to turn back.
Author and academic Charles Hatfield (Alternative Comics, and Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby University Press of Mississippi, 2005 and 2012) has reviewed By This Shall You Know Him by Jesse Jacobs (9780986873980 | May 2012 | $15.00 | Trade Paper).
“An art comics creation myth, cosmic, disturbing, and beautifully rendered in ice-blue and contrasting purples, with a style that welds the lovely to the grotesque…By This Shall You Know Him is (further) proof that fantasy in comics need not be hollow, generic, or ingratiating. It can be troubling instead. An inspired comic!” — Charles Hatfield
Read the whole review here!
Upon closer inspection, this example represents one of Bradshaw Crandell’s very best pastel illustrations. Crandell preceded in scope and stature, nearly all of the illustrators associated with painting a pretty face or even pinup art … in some cases by twenty years. This masterfully simple, and perfectly rendered illustration presents an idealized and stylized face that set a standard for all who followed.
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