SPIDER-MAN

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FOR ADAM

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Click here to download all 7 pages in a PDF.
Some people have been asking where they can get a copy of this comic. Sorry, but is a wholly digital creation. Ink has never touched paper! If you right click on the above images, you can download and print them out if you want to make your own Sabotage comic. They are hi-rez enough that they should still be 150 dpi if printed out at standard comic book size: 6.875"x10.5" (although anything that's printed and folded - double sided - needs pages in multiples of 4, I don't know what you're going to do with the extra blank page. I'd recommend putting it inside the front cover - a dedication page! For your autograph collection). Print 'em, give 'em to friends, enemies, strangers - whatever you want. Hide them on buses or throw them into the windows of passing cop cars. Please don't sell them. This is a tribute to Adam Yauch; it's not for you or I to profit from financially. Peace!

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SNEAK PEEK

...of a thing I'm working on. Should be finished next weekend, I think.

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THAT'S BETTER

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ZOLA PROCESS

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DOOOM

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RETRODOK

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GREEN LANTERN

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The trailer was so bad I never bothered to watch the Green Lantern movie. Shame, because the character/concept is pretty cool. He was created in 1940 (below left) and revamped in 1959 (middle). And 50 years later, still has legs (below right). 

I decided to tweak the costume a bit. I did a kind of stylized lantern-shining-in-the-dark thing and gave him white boots to match the white gloves. Actual boots. Even if you can get on board with the conceit of running around in a speedskater-type onesie, you want more between your feet and the pavement than a layer of lycra when you're fighting crime (or fighting anything, for that matter). 

A 1950's F-100 Super Sabre in the background to signify where he has come from and outer space glimpsed through the upper atmosphere above to show where he's gone.

It's interesting the extent to which popular entertainment shows where people's heads are at. In the 40's there seemed to be a preoccupation with magic/occult and exoticism. The Shadow, the Phantom, Fu Manchu; and superheroes got their powers through magic talismans from far off lands. 

Post WW2, superheroes were no longer necessary to the publics psyche, the war having been won and America enjoying prosperity. 

In the 60's there was a resurgence of the costumed hero  along with the rise of the counter-culture and it was science, especially radiation, giving them super powers. 

Now that there is again a resurgence of super heroes in popular culture (usually created by some kind of genetic modification in the new batch of movies), you have to wonder why we're once more drawn to the superhero. The world is looking a little dire at the moment. We must feel we need saving again.

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CHICKS BE ROWDY

Animation designed by the awesome Dave Cooper. He never updates his website or blog or Flickr page, so heres a link to a Google images search for his work. He does paintings and comics and toys. He also did a kids book under a pseudonym, I presume because his other stuff can get kind of porn-y. I like this song, too.

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ANDRE JUILLIARD

A panel by the French comics artist.

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AWESOME NEW MOEBIUS INTERVIEW

"... now I am like a unicorn."

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ART SPIEGELMAN

Art Spiegelman on accidental protagonists:

Click to enlarge this excerpt from the September 1995 issue of the Comics Journal (#180). If you are able, I recommend tracking down this issue as well as #181 for an amazing two part interview. This guy is smart. Looking forward to hearing the Pulitzer Prize winning comics creator speak in two days.

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MOEBIUS EXHIBITION

... at the Fondation Cartier Pour L’Art Contemporain in Paris. Click here for a bunch of crazy pics. Looks like a huge show in a huge venue.

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FRENCHING

French illustrator Enki Bilal came up in class the other day, so I thought I'd (re)post a couple of videos that feature him schooling suckas in his studio. They seem to be from some kind of "day in the life" type of documentary. I'd love to find the whole thing intact. I could watch hours of this.

While we're on the subject of awesome Frenchness, a new blog popped up featuring the work of the peerless Moebius. It's not well organized, but there's a lot of his work to check out. Stuff like this:

Oh! And here's Moebius rocking a Cintiq at last year's Angouleme festival in France.

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THE DROP

I did a 10 page comic for a school assignment.  It is formatted to fit a 1440 X 900 monitor when viewed full screen.

Click here to download a 7 MB Pdf, or view it online as a slide show here.

Below is a small version of all 10 pages.

I envisage the character's helmet being wired for sound.  This is what would be playing during the descent. 

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ANGOULÉME

The Angoulême International Comics Festival in France is a pretty big deal. Over there they kind of look at it as an art form. In North America there is a disproportionate amount of superhero comics. It's kind of like if, at the Oscar's, there was just action movies - Lethal Weapon winning best picture. Then you go over to Europe and see all this other beautiful stuff.

They recently announced their short list of the best stuff of the year. There are half a dozen or so books who's publication language was originally English. The rest, I'm not even sure if you can get them over here. They look pretty, though. Click on the covers for a closer look, then click again for a brief description, if your French is okay. So cool to see all the different styles that are represented. You'll notice a complete absence of capes, as well...

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PLAINCLOTHES

On his blog, Paolo Rivera just posted a cover he did for an upcoming issue of Fantastic Four, in a 60's illustration steez. Love those graphic shapes and use of color, clothing and body language to talk about the character's personalities. I also love this page on the right from a 1969 issue by Jack Kirby. Awesome outfits!

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DECONSTRUCTING ROY LICHTENSTEIN

David Barsalou has a website and a Flickr page where he tracks down the source material for Lichtenstein's comics-derived works.

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PAGE FLOW

Bryan Lee O'Malley, creator of Scott Pilgrim, compares a page from book #3 to a page from book #5, showing how his page layout has improved. Good DeSign. From his Flickr account.

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