August 2012
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Milo Manara is an Italian artist who gets a lot of love from indie comics fans and is a much bigger deal in Europe than the States, but among comic artists, he’s very well-regarded and he and Chris Claremont did a great one-shot called X-Women, to which this was the cover.
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I’m just a huge fan of this one: Maggie the Mechanic, from Los Bros. Hernandez’s seminal series Love & Rockets, by comics’ most sought-after portrayer of pretty girls, Adam Hughes. Hooray.
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Here’s a beautiful P. Craig Russell colored line drawing of Elric from his truly wonderful Stormbringer miniseries (adapted from the Michael Moorcock novel) for the long-defunct Topps Comics. It’s way, way out of print, but it’s not that expensive and honestly one of the most visual accomplished graphic novels I’ve had the pleasure to read.…
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And, of course, I’d be really remiss if I didn’t include the amazing xkcd, which my math guy brother put me on to and which I heartily recommend to you all.
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A really beautiful/funny variation on “The Swing” by the inimitable Kate Beaton. If you are ever in need of a laugh, her Hark! A Vagrant webcomic is far and away the funniest humor strip out there right now.
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I try not to post too much girly art on here, just because it quickly becomes a bottomless pit of sleaze, but I do like some of the cheesecakier comics artists and Frank Cho is definitely one of the best. Here’s his “X-Chicks” drawing from a few years back. Enjoy responsibly.
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I understand why people hate Frank Miller. I think his blog post on Occupy Wall Street was stupid and poorly informed and very obviously the work of someone who lived in New York during the Taxi Driver era and doesn’t seem to understand that the city and its youth culture have changed drastically. I’m sorry…
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And one of the best 2-page spreads in the Grant Morrison/Frank Quitely masterpiece We3, which is full of stuff like this. Get the deluxe edition–it’s longer.
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Rare and strange: a picture of The Punisher by the late, great Moebius.
GRAPHOMANIA 