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I'd been looking forward to the Temple of Art panel for a while, but I'm guessing that since it was at 8 p.m on Saturday night at SDCC, most people did not have it on their radar With a panel that included filmmakers Allan Amato and Olga Nunes, as well documentary subjects Bill Sienkiewicz, David[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] There are no shortages of books and websites displaying fantastical artwork. But Vision Illustrated, edited by Hugo Bravo, stands out from the crowd by providing not only art, but also a glimpse into the creative process. Alongside full-page illustrations of the final product, Vision also displays thumbnail sketches, color and black-and-white studies, images of art in[...]

And perhaps other readers will have noticed this comparison too. The cover to both the first and final issues of Star-Lord, both by Kris Anka who in a rare for Marvel these days turn managed to do every issue of the series and all the covers, has a wonderfully smart element at play that thematically connects[...]

From the mass exodus from the area, to news of food and supplies unable to reach the innocent people trapped inside, one wonders just what can one do? Well, Emily Owen has come up with one idea to help as much as possible. Owen has started a comic art auction online, with all proceeds going to aid[...]

Daniel Kesner is an artist with an eBay account, which he is using to sell original piece of artwork. But exactly how original are they? Take his image of Reverse Flash. And then take the big reveal page from Flash #40 by Brett Booth Like he did. Or compare his Darth Maul…. Which seems to be a take on this version[...]

The San Diego Comic Art Gallery attached to comic book publisher IDW is launching their  Comic Book Art of Star Wars exhibition tomorrow, running until the end of January. The exhibit will feature 30 pieces of rare Star Wars original art from the very first comic book series released by Marvel Comics in 1977, mostly from the first[...]

And a bunch of retailer exclusive covers, many not yet seen… Let's start with pages…   And then covers! [...]

This came across my radar when Mike Mignola shared the event on Twitter, since, of course, he has artwork in this show paying tribute to the filmography of his collaborator Guillermo Del Toro But many more artists have turned out to celebrate him too The opening reception for the show is tonight, September 11th in[...]

I investigated the Andy Warhol Exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York last weekend, an exhibit focusing on the reassemblage of Warhol's famed and in many ways career-launching soup cans in the original manner of their display when they debuted in 1962 in California That is, they were displayed in a linear[...]

By Michele Brittany, West Coast Bleeding Cool Correspondent Former DC and Dark Horse writer/editor Barbara Randall Kesel addressed a packed room of anxious Wondercon attendees on how to defeat the dreaded creative block that writers and artists face, in her panel titled Where Do Ideals Come From? Banishing the Blank Page. There are going to be days[...]

Artist Stjepan Sejic has a unique style that stands out whether he's drawing Witchblade and Aphrodite IX for Top Cow, Dresden Files covers for Dynamite or Rat Queens for Image… I was even lucky enough to have him do a cover for my Sinbad series at Zenescope years ago So I would think that some[...]

Hart S Fischer tweeted @bleedingcool unpublished missing original art for my comic series Bill the Bull surfaces 20 yrs later in an auction: http://t.co/9w9EBFkGbG — Hart D Fisher (@Hart_fisher) October 2, 2014 The listing reads, The reserve starting bid is set at $5350 and this listing will be transferred to Heritage Auctions in Dallas Texas or Los Angeles if[...]

Mack, best known as the creator of Kabuki and his amazing writing and artwork on Daredevil and the gorgeous covers for Alias, had a very busy SDCC, with the announcements for his cover work for the upcoming Fight Club 2 series coming from Dark Horse Comics, and a new Kickstarter campaign, The Temple of Art,[...]

UNFINISHED Have you seen this artwork? JLA artist John Dell tells us, I noticed the piece missing three days ago, more than likely it was removed at a store signing or a Gulf Coast show within the last year. I was looking through my Table portfolios with the purpose of removing personal items I had no intention to  sell. It[...]

The Temple of Art is a documentary project and book project, currently crowdfunding, the brainchild of photographer Allan Amato that arose out of his photographic portraits of artists in a variety of multi-modal mediums It has grown to encompass some of the most visionary creators in their respective fields and to make a statement about[...]

By Nikolai Fomich [The Gallery] San Diego's Chuck Jones Gallery, home to hundreds of classic art pieces by Jones and other animation legends, will be holding several events throughout Comic Con On display at the Gallery are Jones originals many fans will recognize – including original Jones art based upon Roadrunner and Coyote cartoons, classic Looney Tunes[...]

In those three days, there were several things I observed – good, bad and different – when comparing the expo with the Southern California comic cons I attend throughout the year. Let's start with the problems I saw with the expo Lines and particularly line management With 61,000+ attendees (last year's figures according to Wikipedia), this[...]

This is what you get when you commission Jason Pearson to draw the climatic scene from Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. He writes, Here's a commission for

And there are going to be some seriously large wallets to be carried to this display of European comic book art. The cover of Asterix And The Soothsayer (Le Devin in the original) by Uderzo will be the highest valued piece of work on display, estimated to sell for 170,000 Euros ($230,000). But we will also see[...]

Two of the legends of movie poster art, Drew Struzan and Bob Peak, are getting an exhibit of their work at the Forest Lawn Museum in Glendale, CA The exhibit, called The Masters Of Movie Art runs January 24th through May 26th.   Now some of you may be thinking… wait, isn't Forest Lawn a cemetery? Yup[...]

You can  show people getting killed, tortured, and maimed in most violent ways but you can't show nipples on a woman because that's crossing the line. Makes sense since America was largely founded by religious zealots and ass-hats that England didn't want. I just wanted to let your fans know that illustration and other art that Facebook[...]

More to come, it seems.   Someone who's replaced every part of the bison.   Not so much a kingfisher, more a king assassin.   They look slow… but they're powered by nuclear fusion! Their heads can keep turning right round until they unscrew off completely.   Yeah, c'mon poachers, take this mother's horn. Mechanical vultures also double as a tent for inclement weather, such[...]

Chris Thompson writes for Bleeding Cool; My love affair with Hugo Pratt‘s Corto Maltese really took hold on my most recent trip to Italy. Although beloved

Certain creator names redacted at his request; Back in the mid 1970s I wrote a book called "The Green Princess" and since I couldn't sell it (it wasn't all that great), I decided I would publish it myself and fill it with illustrations from my favorite comic artists I commissioned a cover painting from Boris Vallejo[...]

There was quite a lot of feedback to Rich's piece recently on taking your chances when it comes to art commissions Anj, a blogger for Supergirl Comic Box Commentary, posted the following piece in response Bleeding Cool is reprinting Anj's blog with his permission…   I read with some empathy the Bleeding Cool post about artists completing commissions in[...]

Lots of comic book artists take private commissions for work, often using trademarked characters they've worked on, often charging hundreds, even thousands of dollars It can pay better than a publisher page rate, and the more successful you are as a comic artist, the more you can charge. But over the last few years, there seems to have[...]

Found on eBay Brendan McCarthy: "I really put my greatest effort into making sure that the Paradax comic was going to look amazing It's a great personal favourite of mine Paradax 1 and Strange Days 2 I think aresome of my best works." Paradax first appeared in the three issues of Strange Days (1984-1985). This is an increadibly RARE item[...]

Seth Reedy is a comic book artist Ish. He makes himself available for work and promotes himself readily online, taking comissions and tattoo work But some of his examples seem a little… familiar Yet he claims all the credit for himself Sounds familiar? His work seems to bear an uncanny resemblance to the art of Bruno Auriema,[...]

It's certainly a very interesting time to be a comic book creator. Comic books have generally been regarded by the art community as being somewhat of a low-brow form of art, along with their sister mediums like tattooing and graffiti But that's changed with the sudden surge of entertainment that seems to point to the conclusion[...]

  Heritage Auctions is selling the original art to the cover of Spider-Man #1 by Todd McFarlane, on behalf of its owner Martin Shamus, father of Wizard Magazine's Gareb and Steven Shamus The cover of Wizard #1 was famously based on this cover It's iconic and probably bsums up nineties comics better than any other It[...]