Similar to James Jean’s style, and his ability to create some great Fables covers for DC/Vertigo is Brazilian artist Joao Ruas, who’s given the spotlight at Abduzeedo.
Check out their gallery of a few of his ethereal works right here.
R.I.P Steve Jobs
“So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know – just explore things.” – CNNMoney
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs’ Stanford Commencement Address
Collage from here.
This is What Catwoman Should Look Like on Film
Anne Hathaway’s Catwoman costume for The Dark Knight Rises film is pretty bland and impractical. Thanks to Coolvibe though, I spotted a great alternative from artist Sven Juhlin’s blog, which you can see below, along with his interpretations of Captain America and Juggernaut.
Batman: Year One’s Catwoman
Here’s the first look at how Catwoman will look in her short film on next month’s Batman: Year One animated film. Cool. She resembles her comic counterpart closley. Hopefully Anne Hathaway in next year’s The Dark Knight Rises will too. Official details below.
Warner Home Video to unveil Catwoman animated short, first Justice League: Doom footage at New York Comic Con
Warner Home Video, Warner Premiere, DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation proudly present an action-packed hour of first looks at DC Universe Animated Original Movies properties on Friday, October 14 from 3:00-4:00 p.m. at New York Comic Con.
Central to the panel will be the world premiere of the animated short Catwoman, starring Eliza Dushku (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dollhouse) as the voice of title character. The 15-minute short will be included on the release of Batman: Year One, which streets October 18 on Blu-ray, DVD, for Download and On Demand.
The panel will also include the very first footage to be seen from Justice League: Doom, the highly-anticipated next entry in the ongoing series of DC Universe Animated Original Movies.
The panelists, which include the ultimate voice of Batman, Kevin Conroy, DCU executive producer Bruce Timm and casting/dialogue director Andrea Romano, will offer a glimpse into the 2012 DC Universe Animated Original Movies slate, give away some exclusive prizes to inquisitive audience members, and quite possibly welcome a few surprise guests to the stage.
An autograph session with the panelists will immediately follow the panel.
Spider-Man Costume Redesign Winners
Project Rooftop is a great site that occasionally runs costume contests on comics characters. Seeing as there’s a new Spider-Man in Miles Morales (in the Ultimate Universe, and the first issue of his series was released this week), now’s a good time for them to announce their winner of their latest contest. Below is the winning entry by Mike Dimayunga, and 2 of my faves (by Corey Lewis, and Rosy Higgins) of their many great entries in their Spider-Man: Webhead 2.0 contest.
Cool Cities and Cars
Here’s a funky gallery of posters celebrating cities of a few superheroes, and ads from some of pop culture’s best cars. Go here to check out artist Justin Van Genderden’s site.
Super Powers Print
Honouring the great Super Powers cartoon and toy line from the ’80s is this new screen print from Mondo Tees and Sideshow Collectibles. It’s $100 and is limited to only 250 copies. More info here.
MASScanvas, My Chemical Romance & Make-A-Wish
The lead singer of my Chemical Romance Gerard Way wrote the excellent The Umbrella Academy series from Dark Horse. That’s excuse enough to share this here video featuring the band and a competition they recently run in conjunction with MASScanvas. The band chose 5 shirts (and they’re all great), which are now available to buy right here. There are only 2019 made of each design and if you make a purchase before Friday, you automatically go into a draw for a VIP experience with the band or a signed guitar. The better news is that proceeds go towards helping the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
While we’re talking shirts, Slave Labor Graphics have just released a shirt featuring a long out of print design by Jhonen Vasquez. Check it out here.
The Sketchbook Project
I found this a while ago on arty site Abduzeedo and quickly signed up for it, not that I’ve done much drawing since my one year at art school years ago, and some more at Uni when I was studying Digital Film Making slightly less years ago.
The Sketchbook Project is, “like a concert tour, but with sketchbooks.”
Thousands of sketchbooks will be exhibited at galleries and museums as they make their way on tour across the world.
After the tour, all sketchbooks will enter into the permanent collection of The Brooklyn Art Library, where they will be barcoded and available for the public to view.
Anyone – from anywhere in the world – can be a part of the project.
It’s a cool idea. They send you a sketchbook, you choose a theme, you fill it up and send it back. Then it goes on a tour, gets into the collection at the Brooklyn Art Library and can be uploaded to their digital library.
Check out all the details at their site and go nuts with inspired, and inspiring, scribblings.
Art & God
From here. Great stuff.
Minimalised Marvel
Here’s a funky gallery interpreting a few Marvel characters as minimalist posters from artist Marko Manev. I like the way he used the Fantastic Four, and even got the Scarlet Spider his own design. The old Spider-Man clone doesn’t get much love.
Sweet Inspiration
Photo, and coffee, taken by me while on holiday in Sydney. We don’t have Starbucks in Perth, or Krispy Kreme either. We have lovely weather though.
Coran Kizer Stone Gallery
Behind the cool name of this American artist is some even cooler talent. Check out a gallery of his best character work here, including a handful of redesigned JLA pics, Mario beating up Sonic, a gun toting Smurf, and the toughest Woody from Toy Story you’ll ever see.
I’m loving that team of cybernetic adventurers. He’s a character designer for Warner Bros but Marvel or DC need to get this guy doing some covers pronto.
Biblically Inspired Posters
As featured on Abduzeedo, comes designer Jim LePage’s frankly awesome Word posters designed to highlight individual books of the Bible. As LaPages states:
Basically, Word is a series where I create original designs for each book of the Bible. Before each design, I spend time researching the book, finding out the themes, historical context, weirdest stories, etc. I also scan through parts of the book looking for a passage or story that could translate into a cool design. Each design isn’t meant to completely represent the book, rather it is merely based on a passage from the book.
Some of my faves are below, and you can find heaps more at LePage’s site. Apart from his keen eye, his writing is just as good, with his explanations behind each design offering honest, and sometimes funny, approaches.
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