Stalker #2 - Steve Ditko / Wally Wood art & cover
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Stalker #2, 1975 - The swordsman without a soul continues his quest,
arriving at the literal edge of the world. Steve Ditko and Wally Wood
continue their c...
Prog Zero
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In November 2006, after an impetuous ill-thought out bid on eBay, I won the
first 1188 programmes of *2000 AD*. Rather than just have them sit piled up
in ...
Mark Harrison - Tricera-TOPS!
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Holy cowosaurus, this cover is absolutely awesome (in the curmudgeonly,
proper sense of the word as opposed to the new-fangled overly quoted
version all to...
Marie, let's eat!
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We've built it up for months, and at last Marie enjoyed her Festival of
Dairy, with cheesesteaks, pizza and lotsa ice cream. Read about the amazing
indulge...
Richard Serra at The Nasher Sculpture Center
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Photos by John Foster.
*My Curves Are Not Mad*, 1987 Cor-Ten Steel, Overall: 168 x 539 3/8 x 139
in. (426.7 x 1370 x 353.1 cm.) Each plate: 168 x 539 3...
Valiant 17th May 1975
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Just bought this issue so lets have a peek at what's of note, yes?
Sergeant Strong:
A strip i don't remember at all. He's "Simon Strong", a soldier who's h...
HIATUS
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Hello, friends. And I mean that.
In the years since I started this blog, I've made real friends around the
world.
The time has come for a hiatus. Possibly...
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ArtOrder is moving...
ArtOrder can now be found at theArtOrder.com. Right now it's just the
blog, but coming shortly we'll have galleries, forums and a s...
Bakshi's STREETS
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[image: Bakshi The Streets]
Most of the animation news blogs seem to overlook Bakshi related items, so
I'll continue to point them out here...
*RALPH BAKSH...
Wednesday evening stuff.
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Just wanted to share a few images. The first is a photograph I just came
across on Faceberk, the prototype for the "Metallic K.O." alternate finish
for the...
My Top 50 Marvel Comics Characters: (#'s 50-26)
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Growing up I always dreamed of being a Marvel Comics artist. Mark
Gruenwald, (one time editor in chief of Marvel) was a student of my Dad's
at the Universi...
Super School back in The Beano
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This week's Beano features a one-off Super School page that I drew a while
ago. There's a panel from my black and white artwork above, before it was
colour...
It Sucks Being Sue Storm!
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You don’t need Reed to tell you the answer to everything, Sue. It sucks
being Sue Storm. Filed under: It Sucks Being Sue Storm! Tagged: Invisible
Girl, Mr ...
A barrel O'Laughs
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It's that time of year again! *Happy St. Patrick's Day!*
"Maw Green" from *Four Color* #206 *[Little Orphan Annie]* (December 1948),
script, pencils, an...
Pin-Up: L'Exposition
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I was invited to contribute a piece to a gallery exhibit of artwork,
curated by the marvelous Maly Siri, celebrating vintage pin-up and
burlesque, at La Ga...
WOO HOO! ROCKETEER!!!
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The first bit of news out of the IDW panel at WonderCon this weekend is
that Mark Waid and I will be doing a 4 issue miniseries of THE ROCKETEER!!!!
It's ...
Place your bids now...
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This line art for one of my old Judge Dredd covers is now up for auction on EbayIt's my first attempt at selling on Ebay. Fingers crossed. Let's see how it ...
i've been reading...
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"When Chip got back to the shop he found, not unexpectedly, one of his
regulars, Ferd, making himself at home in an armchair with a vintage copy of
* Silver...
JEAN "MOEBIUS" GIRAUD by Francesco Francavilla
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*Click on the image to see the BIGGER VIEW*
[image: Jean MOEBIUS Giraud]
[image: Jean MOEBIUS Giraud]
I will miss you, Gir. Thank you so much for all the ma...
That’s All, Folks!
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Dear Readers, It’s with mixed feelings that we have to say goodbye to
Comics Comics for now. We’ve been offered a great opportunity to be
co-editors of The...
Batman: Arkham Unhinged – Enter Killer Croc
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The new BATMAN: ARKHAM UNHINGED cover. This week’s new chapter of BATMAN:
ARKHAM UNHINGED by Derek Fridolfs, Darick Robertson and Richard P. Clark
introduc...
New adress
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Yep I am changing this websites name to thrill power overdose officially
and thus have imported all of the past entries to the new blog...
I will be starti...
Purita Campos en U.K.
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El caso de *Purita Campos* es muy distinto al del resto de autores que
trabajaron para las revistas inglesas; mientras casi todos los autores de
que habla...
Gypsies.
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This is the end result of my trip to Russia last October. I was invited by
the Respect project to talk about comics, listen to, and take part in,
discussio...
Flesh chomps back into 2000AD
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[image: Flesh: Midnight Cowboys]
Time-travelling cowboys and murderous lizards are rampaging back into the
pages of *2000AD*, as *Flesh* returns again.
On...
TOUT EN HAUT DU MONDE, le blog
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TOUT EN HAUT DU MONDE, le blog:
Yes. The filmmakers of *Tout En Haut Du Monde* (Longway North) have a production
blog.
Mad's 1979 "Superman:The Movie" spoof
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The collection cabinet swings open this time to present issue #208 of Mad
magazine, with their spoof of "Superman: The Movie" from July of 1979. Mort
Druck...
FutureQuake 20- now on sale!
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Available now- FutureQuake 20!
Behind the cover by Dave Thomson celebrating the final episode of the
current Neroy Sphinx caper we have 8 strips to astound ...
bunnies, skateboards, tattoos.
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Sup talented and attractive people. I ‘been busy with school! I’ve been
dipping my toes in more 3D-related arts, learning how to cast, work with
ceramics, ...
Bastion's 7 webcomic page 6!
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Bastion's 7 Created by: Sean Galloway
Plotted by: Sean Galloway and J.Torres
Written by: J.Torres
Art by: Sean Galloway, Rob Haynes, Derek Laufman, and DJ W...
The Hills above Clonmel
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Happy Saint Patrick's Day, everyone!
Here's a little plein air painting that I did in County Tipperary, Ireland
in 2004.
On that trip I didn't rent a ca...
MEGACITY UNDERCOVER 2 - EXCLUSIVE SIGNING!
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To celebrate the release of *MEGACITY UNDERCOVER 2*, We'll be doing an
exclusive Signing and Q&A at the wonderful *ORBITAL Comics*, in London, on *Satu...
ONE LOVELY DRAWING, part 40
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Artists who can't draw have become emboldened by the excuse that
traditional drawing skills are less relevant today. The focus of art has
shifted, we are ...
Radio Silence for a While
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Hi folks,
You've no doubt noticed that the Blog has been a bit quiet of late. While
I've still been tweeting periodically the actual content here has
been...
Partners in Crime
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Yeah I know they are not partner..:) I think these two guys are cool as
hell so I had to eventually draw them. *Commissioner James Gordon* and
Harvey Bull...
Claude Lorrain: The Enchanted Landscape
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Claude Gellée, also known as Claude Lorrain (from his birthplace, the Duchy
of Lorraine, once an independent nation in what it currently northeastern
Franc...
Gosh!
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I'm so out of touch that I had no idea about this:
http://www.goshlondon.com/move/
I'll definitely be there on the 30th to bid farewell to the old shop (an...
More Editorial!
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And here's a few more recent illustrations I did for Boston Magazine. They
were all designed to accommodate a masthead in the top left and usually a
few pa...
The blog is dead, long live the blog
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So my new blog went online here this morning.
I decided about a month ago to close Pimpernel's Blog.
I have a bunch of reasons... some of which i talk abo...
The new iPad (or iPad 3)
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So, yesterday, Scott (co host of our occasional sunny side comics podcast)
went down to the apple store and bought himself an ipad3 and while he was
there ...
Moustache Monday!
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A young flying chap knows he has to earn his right to enter the select few
who sport a bit o' tash. Here we see the more experienced man showing a
young ...
Reprint This! Update on Flex Mentallo
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Everybody online has beat me to this, but *Flex Mentallo*, featured here
back in August of '09, is currently scheduled for a new hardback collection
in t...
Action Comics #1
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Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to
leap tall buildings in a single bound. Yes, it's all there, and not by
coincidence...
Forgotten Man Graphic Novel - Page 65
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I’ve been working on a large project, drawing the art for the graphic novel
adaptation of Amity Shlaes’ New York Times bestselling book, “The Forgotten
Man...
Johnny Alpha
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A Johnny Alpha doodle - i promised to do a strip for Zarjaz a while back so
just playing about a bit with the costume a wee bit in order to decide how
i w...
THE STARS ARE RIGHT!
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As was announced today over at SMH HQ - DEADBEATS is coming to a bookshop
near you this autumn, both in the UK and in the US. I first talked about
this Gr...
Barsoom Swag
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I thought i would share this gorgeous Ben Caldwell commission i got ages
ago...
John Carter and Dejah Thoris with some Tharks, from Edgar Rice Burrough's ...
Harker returns (at last!)
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It’s been a long time coming, but Roger Gibson and Vince Danks can finally
reveal the reason there’s been no Harker for the last 17 months…. they’ve
got th...
Sold out (again) DARK JUDGEMENT 01
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Just to let folks know that the extra copies of DARK JUDGEMENT 01 I printed
up to accompany the release of the second special have now all gone. That
boat ...
NYCC 2011 Commissions — Daredevil
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*Daredevil*. 2012. Acrylic on card stock, 7 × 10.5″.
Morning, folks! Today I'm 31 years old. Yippee! When I started working for
Marvel, I was just *bare...
Special Announcement to All Followers!
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Hi all ! Recently I have been subject to unwarranted abuse and snide
remarks from a poster called Kid Robson. If you would like to read some of
his comment...
FAS Alumnus, Jerry Lazare
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When *Famous Artists magazine* began its "Spotlight on Alumni" series,
Canadian illustrator Jerry Lazare was the first graduate featured.
[image: Lazare08]...
On The New Avengers #21 (Part 1 of 2)
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*In which the blogger, caught up in trying to hit the deadline for a piece
which may - unbelievably - appear in supermarkets and newsagents across
the nat...
Inspector Morse prequel Endeavour gets full series
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*Inspector Morse* prequel *Endeavour* has - unsurprisingly - been
commissioned for a series of four feature-length episodes. The one-off
special broadcast...
The Phoenix Comic
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The next issue of the Phoenix comic arrived today and it is an absolute
smasher. It's usual guys are in there looking ace, including Neill Cameron, Jamie ...
Facetime with Leon Beyond
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Leon Beyond has been getting involved in trivia-related events in his
community. For example: the recent CHILI/TRIVIA ("Chilivia") Cook-off in
McKarney Co...