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    drawnblog:

    Toronto Comic Arts Festival: Pencil it In (by Toronto Comic Arts Festival)

    TCAF is coming in just over a week. I can’t wait. This video trailer featuring some of Toronto’s finest cartoonists talking about their tools — holy heck. Love.

    redesign     comics     design     characters     illustration     fashion    
    redesignrelated:

Wonder Woman character redesign from DC Comics
At 69 years old, Wonder Woman undergoes another wardrobe and body makeover for issue no. 600 of the comic book.
“…The new costume was designed by the artist Jim Lee, who in February was named co-publisher of DC, alongside Dan DiDio. Given the assignment, “my first reaction was, ‘Oh my gosh,’ ” Mr. Lee said in an interview. But he welcomed the challenge: “When these characters become so branded that you can’t change things, they become ossified.”  The new look — with an understated “W” insignia, a midnight blue jacket and a flinty fusion of black tights and boots — is darker than the famed swimsuit-style outfit, and aims to be contemporary, functional and, as Tim Gunn of “Project Runway” might say, less costumey…” —via The New York Times
see also the NYT “Evolution of Wonder Woman” slideshow

    redesignrelated:

    Wonder Woman character redesign from DC Comics

    At 69 years old, Wonder Woman undergoes another wardrobe and body makeover for issue no. 600 of the comic book.

    “…The new costume was designed by the artist Jim Lee, who in February was named co-publisher of DC, alongside Dan DiDio. Given the assignment, “my first reaction was, ‘Oh my gosh,’ ” Mr. Lee said in an interview. But he welcomed the challenge: “When these characters become so branded that you can’t change things, they become ossified.” The new look — with an understated “W” insignia, a midnight blue jacket and a flinty fusion of black tights and boots — is darker than the famed swimsuit-style outfit, and aims to be contemporary, functional and, as Tim Gunn of “Project Runway” might say, less costumey…” —via The New York Times

    see also the NYT “Evolution of Wonder Woman” slideshow

    humor     comics     legos     nostalgia    
    posters     illustration     design     comics    
    new Chris Ware posters(first discovered via OMG Posters)

    new Chris Ware posters
    (first discovered via OMG Posters)

    tech     computer     cartoon     comics     humor    
    “What your email address says about your computer skills” 
My favorite is @aol.com: “Prints out emails and brings them over to your house.”
(via The Oatmeal)

    “What your email address says about your computer skills”

    My favorite is @aol.com: “Prints out emails and brings them over to your house.”

    (via The Oatmeal)

    design     tattoos     typography     Helvetica     weird     comics    
    characters     books     comics     design    
    books     comics     art     design     illustration     work    
    The Artist in the Office: How To Creatively Survive and Thrive Seven Days a Week by illustrator Summer Pierre (via summerpierre)

    The Artist in the Office: How To Creatively Survive and Thrive Seven Days a Week
    by illustrator Summer Pierre (via summerpierre)

    apple     books     comics     technology     design    
    Chris Ware     illustration     comics     design    
    comics     magazines     art     illustration     culture     design     politics    
    “The Art of Rebellion,” Steven Heller reviews “New visual books on the comics artist Harvey Kurtzman, classic underground comics, political posters from the Lebanese civil war and mug shots” (via NYTimes.com)

    “The Art of Rebellion,” Steven Heller reviews “New visual books on the comics artist Harvey Kurtzman, classic underground comics, political posters from the Lebanese civil war and mug shots” (via NYTimes.com)

    covers     science fiction     design     illustration     comics    
    mudwerks:

Golden Age Comic Book Stories
Fantastic Universe 69 issues ~ June-July/1953 - March/1960 (All digest sized except the last 6 are pulp size)Here’s the lion’s share of the covers!

    mudwerks:

    Golden Age Comic Book Stories

    Fantastic Universe 69 issues ~ June-July/1953 - March/1960 (All digest sized except the last 6 are pulp size)Here’s the lion’s share of the covers!

    comics     humor     Peanuts    
    video     animation     graphic design     comics     books    

    benjaminhilts:

    Be A Nose!

    Short animation for Art Spiegelman’s new book, music by the Black Keys

    (via timothymcsweeney)