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Re: What Are You Reading?
By: Chiprocks1 Date: March 2, 2013, 8:07 am
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[quote author=Mac link=topic=9.msg17391#msg17391
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I take it, this is new art? Alphonse Mucha definitely has some
influence, I can see that just in the cover.
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Good eye on the influence. Book cover and interior art is by Amy
Reeder Hadley.
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Re: What Are You Reading?
By: Chiprocks1 Date: May 1, 2013, 10:32 pm
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KISS Kompendium - Gene Simmons & Paul Stanley - 2009
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Re: What Are You Reading?
By: Chiprocks1 Date: August 14, 2013, 12:11 am
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Superman: For Tomorrow (2013)
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Re: What Are You Reading?
By: Neumatic Date: August 26, 2013, 9:33 pm
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I finally got Peter David's Sir Apropos Of Nothing, which I
didn't realize was a comic book. And to be honest, I"m not a
big fan of the artwork (it would be so amazing in an Al
Williamson style). At least it's bloody funny, the Gunslinger
from The Dark Tower shows up a couple times and there's
brilliant lines like "a sky had suddenly turned as black as a
lawyer's heart."
I'm still getting into it, but I'm definitely glad I got it.
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Re: What Are You Reading?
By: Chiprocks1 Date: August 27, 2013, 4:57 pm
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Justice League, Vol. 1: Origin (The New 52)
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Re: What Are You Reading?
By: Chiprocks1 Date: September 27, 2013, 7:04 pm
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Justice League, Vol. 2: The Villain's Journey (2013)
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Re: What Are You Reading?
By: Chiprocks1 Date: January 30, 2014, 2:23 pm
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Batman Vol. 2: The City of Owls (The New 52 - 2013)
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Re: What Are You Reading?
By: Chiprocks1 Date: July 9, 2014, 4:48 pm
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I Love Trouble - Volume 1 by Kel Symons & Mark Robinson (2014)
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Re: What Are You Reading?
By: Neumatic Date: July 8, 2015, 10:24 pm
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I picked up the JLA line that just came out, issues one and two
because they're drawn by Bryan Hitch and I love me some Bryan
Hitch. It's a little less "widescreen cinematic" and a bit more
"Comic book" and that's fine by me, even if I love the former.
Decent reads, though I'm amazed that no one in this comic book
world apparently ever saw Independence Day or The Day The Earth
Stood Still or any episode of The Twilight Zone, cause dang.
SOMEONE should be saying SOMETHING.
Nice little touch: Batman is Ben Affleck. Straight-up Batfleck
in the book. And Alfred is David Niven. I can't really place
any of the other heroes yet, though.
I also picked up the first issue of All-New Archie, and it's...
certainly different. It's a five minute read, tops, but it's a
good five minutes. The art style is real interesting but the
detail in it, well, that's something else. There's not a LOT of
detail thrown in, but what's in there is good, the facial
expressions, the body language, the fashion the kids in the
background wear, I'm real impressed. It might be one of those
books that works better in bigger chunks like TPBs, but it's
definitely worth checking out.
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Re: What Are You Reading?
By: Neumatic Date: January 7, 2016, 10:13 pm
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J Scott Campbell Time Capsule: 1994-2004
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I could write so many words on this thing.
First, it's books like this which is why I don't really ask for
things for Christmas: this is the kind of thing I'm interested
but I know that no one I know would know exists or to get.
I think I've spoken about how, despite the fact that I've been
drawing for as long as I can remember, I've only started to feel
like a real artist in the last couple, and that's really because
I dropped it as my primary focus, and started experimenting
more. So it was funny reading this and realizing that I went
through a lot of the creative concerns and struggles that he
went through developing his style and creating his stories. In
fact, I remember going through the same thing he went though
when he talked about wishing he had been more mature writing
about some things like Rainmaker's lesbianism or wishing he had
plotted stuff out more before starting (the difference being my
early stuff thank god wasn't public), that's one of the big
things that made me switch to focusing on writing (plus I could
write FAR faster than draw).
I'm a huge fan of J Scott Campbell's caricatures, so I'm glad to
see that there's a whole chapter devoted to it as well as lots
of talk about Mort Drucker (I wonder if, had I discovered
Drucker as a kid, if that would have significantly changed how I
learned how to draw).
Oh, and Chip, if you have the book, can you figure out who the
women in the top of 258 and the bottom of 259 are? I recognize
everyone else but them.
I also gotta say, I love all the talk about Pixar and animation
in the book. I saw that lousy Gen 13 animated pilot, and it was
real disappointing because you're expecting other people to be
able to draw just like him 24 times per second. That's not
fair. But you look at Campbell's art now and you could take any
of his drawings and turn them into a 3D model and could probably
be dead-on-balls accurate. One of the things that makes him a
master is how well he does the musculature and fat and
everything beneath the skin, it feels real and solid and
rubbery... they're 3D without being 3D, put the right computer
talent and you could get something that really feels like those
drawings come to life, even if they don't have the linework in
the end product.
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