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With the release of their second generation budget Cintiq alternative, the MSP19U, Yiynova gets it right

Yiynova took on Wacom’s tablet display monopoly last year with their release of the DP10 and MSP19. I purchased those units and they left me wanting.

The Yiynova used Waltop…

paddymacjr: Really, the New Yorker magazine? Marvel...

Sat, 04 May 2013 05:05:27 -0400

paddymacjr:

Really, the New Yorker magazine? Marvel Entertainment drew that image? Not Jack Kirby and Don Heck? Really?

Sure, your art department was happy, having ironically depicted the goofy, clunky, first comic book appearance of Iron Man to illustrate the review for the new-fangled, shiny, 3D movie version of the hero-robot. Sure, the legal department cleared it because, yes, a court of law has upheld the fact that a corporation created this art. But your massive fact check department let an attribution like this slide?

When every other week your back pages feature an “illustration” or two that’s nothing more than some Photoshop fun with stock photos, the person doing the shopping gets credited as well as the people who snapped the pictures and the syndicate who bought them. Why couldn’t the same respect be extended to one of pop culture’s most tragically under respected creators?

A couple years ago a Harry Bliss cartoon appeared in your caption contest which was an homage to Kirby’s cover to Tales to Astonish #39. It features a typically lumpy and dumpy Kirby monster scaling the wall of an apartment building, and a typically upper-middle class New Yorker cartoon character talking on the phone and sipping red wine, completely unaware of his impending doom. There was a bit of a tizzy when the denizens of the internet pointed out that the cartoon was based mostly on a Kirby drawing, and Kirby wasn’t credited. Although I think an “after Kirby” note probably should have accompanied the new drawing, I’ll never begrudge a cartoonist for appropriating existing work. Especially when the very meat of his joke is taking a hokey comic book monster and putting him into the context of snooty, high-brow Manhattan everyday life. But this is different. This straight-up is a Jack Kirby drawing. Of Iron Man. Illustrating a review of Iron Man 3. With no credit.

The New Yorker has done so much for comics. You give cartoonists who think in terms of one-liners a chance to actually make a career of it. With the influence of Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman, you’ve helped to legitimize alternative comics among the literary elite. Please stop treating Jack Kirby, who those few of us who are more interested in comics than in superheroes call “King,” like nothing more than a finger in the hand of the corporate master he once served.

DISCLOSURE: I know some people who work at the New Yorker, and happen to be madly in love with one of them. I’ve also been madly in love with the magazine ever since I was a little boy flipping through each issue once it arrived in order to find all the cartoons, swears and boobs within.

zonanegativa: Escena de Hilda and the Midnight Giant de Luke...

Fri, 03 May 2013 06:40:50 -0400

zonanegativa:

Escena de Hilda and the Midnight Giant de Luke Pearson, obra nominada a la Mejor Publicación Infantil en los premios Eisner. El resto de nomiados a un solo click

Se merece el Eisner. ¡Tres veces!

thumbcramps: hi guys! this is a comic i made for a final in my...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:06:45 -0400

thumbcramps:

hi guys! this is a comic i made for a final in my comics in literature class. we had to do a research paper on a topic we’d discussed in class and then accompany it with a comic with a relevant subject. my paper was about hyper-sexualization of women in comic books, but i decided to broaden it out here as well as personalize it and make myself the subject and discuss something i’ve been subjected to in the convention circuit and on the internet as well as thousands of other women, as well as give a cue to thought about how the comic book industry as well as the video game industry and even just media in general (all of which are male dominated) push such ridiculous pressures onto girls and women.

also, it feels kind of silly to have to add this since i hope it’s obvious, but i am very aware that there are men that don’t subscribe to this attitude, and am incredibly grateful that these issues are brought to light to people other than the ones that are subjected to it.

anyway haha i have literally been staring at this for 9 hours i don’t even know which direction is up anymore. thanks for reading!!!

Mantis MechOk, I think I’ll leave at that. This was basically an...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:27:06 -0400

Mantis Mech

Ok, I think I’ll leave at that. This was basically an experiment on texture and depth of field,…

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Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:53:42 -0400

Another mech WIP

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krishnas: adrianalikestea: theartofpaigey: fuckyeahillustrativ...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 02:21:00 -0400

krishnas:

adrianalikestea:

theartofpaigey:

fuckyeahillustrativeart:

Tangle Foot Comic on Tumblr!

HOLY. SHIT. ::grows massive art boner::
It’s like Hirschfeld-meets-Hewitt…

Wooooow these are amazing!!

So expressive! Love these!

FRENDEN: Custom Photoshop Inking and Pencilling Brushes

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 02:49:24 -0400

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frenden:

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Photoshop doesn’t do well at interpreting light tablet pressure. Making thick-to-thin strokes requires a lot more care and deliberate line control than would even be necessary…

Score TMNT RULE OK on Threadless

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 09:02:09 -0400

Score TMNT RULE OK on Threadless:

¡Quedan dos días para votar mi cami ninja! ¡Cowabungaa, familia!

aitorierana: Can’t… resist…grumpiness...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 05:28:17 -0400

aitorierana:

Can’t… resist…grumpiness superpowers…fading…

También soy fan de esta boleta.

joanquiros: Practicing #Fraktur ¡Menuda bestia parda del...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 05:21:01 -0400

joanquiros:

Practicing #Fraktur

¡Menuda bestia parda del lettering, maadre!

laserbeamsgo: I just finished this piece, of ROM the...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:58:07 -0400

laserbeamsgo:

I just finished this piece, of ROM the Spaceknight, for the fun of it. Additionally, I decided to experiment with a stripped down coloring style to see if this is the route I want to take coloring the new comic I’m working on. I’ve been really influenced by Bronze Age comics lately… can you tell?

This original piece can be purchased here: http://nvy.gd/13eQWeK