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on 11/24/2016
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on 9/23/2016
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By: Thomas James,
on 6/3/2016
Please enjoy the wonderful illustration above by Terri Murphy, our Pick of the Week for last week’s topic of TRIBAL. Thanks to everyone who participated with drawings, paintings, sculptures, and more. We love seeing it all!
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By: Thomas James,
on 5/27/2016
Please enjoy the wonderful illustration above by Thom Sevalrud, our Pick of the Week for last week’s topic of WHEELS. Thanks to everyone who participated with drawings, paintings, sculptures, and more. We love seeing it all!
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By: Thomas James,
on 5/20/2016
Please enjoy the wonderful illustration above by John Hinderliter, our Pick of the Week for last week’s topic of NOSTALGIA. Thanks to everyone who participated with drawings, paintings, sculptures, and more. We love seeing it all!
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By: Thomas James,
on 4/15/2016
Please enjoy the wonderful drawing above by Petri Suni our Pick of the Week for last week’s topic of TOOL. Thanks to everyone who participated with drawings, paintings, sculptures, and more. We love seeing it all!
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By: Thomas James,
on 4/8/2016
Please enjoy the wonderful drawing above by Yu-Wei Liang our Pick of the Week for last week’s topic of SPARKLE. Thanks to everyone who participated with drawings, paintings, sculptures, and more. We love seeing it all!
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By: Jessica Holden,
on 4/3/2016
Emily Isabella is an illustrator from Hudson Valley, her work varies from book illustrations, packaging designs to textile designs. Her work reflects on the delights of the everyday, in a very beautiful way. Her clients have included Anthropologie, Frankie Magazine and Birch Fabric to name a few.
To see more from this illustrator visit her website
By: Thomas James,
on 4/1/2016
Please enjoy the wonderful drawing above by Mary Haasdyk, our Pick of the Week for last week’s topic of WISDOM. Thanks to everyone who participated with drawings, paintings, sculptures, and more. We love seeing it all!
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By: Thomas James,
on 3/29/2016
Please enjoy the wonderful drawing above by Carrera.Works, our Pick of the Week for last week’s topic of DRAGON. Thanks to everyone who participated with drawings, paintings, sculptures, and more. We love seeing it all!
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Alexandra S. D. Hinrichs, author of Thérèse Makes a Tapestry, loves exploring new places, including France, where she once studied.
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By: Chloe Baldwin,
on 3/15/2016
Post by Chloe
Lotta Nieminen’s illustrations are packed with detail, colour and narrative. The bold vector shapes combined with subtle texture and an atmospheric colour-scheme is what really brings this work to life. Lotta Nieminen’s talent doesn’t stop at illustration either. She is also a graphic designer and art director who runs her own studio based in New York.
If you would like to see more of Lotta Nieminen’s work please visit her portfolio.
By: Thomas James,
on 3/11/2016
Please enjoy the wonderful drawing above by Ileana Rovetta, our Pick of the Week for last week’s topic of CHILDHOOD. Thanks to everyone who participated with drawings, paintings, sculptures, and more. We love seeing it all!
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By: Thomas James,
on 3/4/2016
Please enjoy the wonderful drawing above by Clare Owen, our Pick of the Week for last week’s topic of VILLAGE. Thanks to everyone who participated with drawings, paintings, sculptures, and more. We love seeing it all!
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By: Thomas James,
on 2/19/2016
Please enjoy the wonderful illustration above by Apolline Etienne, our Pick of the Week for last week’s topic of HAT. Thanks to everyone who participated with drawings, paintings, sculptures, and more. We love seeing it all!
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By: Jessica Holden,
on 2/15/2016
karolin schnoor is a German freelance Illustrator and designer, who uses screen printing as an integral part of her illustration practice. Inspired by a love of colour and pattern her illustrations can be found in magazines, stationary, calendars and mugs with a vast array of products to purchase in her Etsy shop. Some of her clients include; Harper Collins, Creative Review and The New York Times.
To see more from this artist visit her website.
By: Thomas James,
on 2/12/2016
Please enjoy the wonderful illustration above by Gianfranco Bonadies, our Pick of the Week for last week’s topic of MYSTERY. Thanks to everyone who participated with drawings, paintings, sculptures, and more. We love seeing it all!
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By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 2/9/2016
A couple of snap polls on Twitter suggest that people pick up comics for many reasons, but here's our own comprehensive poll -- vote often and early!
By: Jessica Holden,
on 2/7/2016
Joe Mclean is an Illustrator from Norwich, who creates illustrations using a combination of hand drawn lines, scanned textures and Adobe Illustrator. His inspirations include traditional printing processes, hand drawn type and graphic illustration. His speciality is editorial illustration and greeting cards. His clients include; Computer Arts, Spindle Magazine and Loud and Quiet to name a few.
See more of Joes work on his website and Behance.
By: Thomas James,
on 2/5/2016
Please enjoy the wonderful illustration above by Jenny Tang, our Pick of the Week for last week’s topic of SMART. Thanks to everyone who participated with drawings, paintings, sculptures, and more. We love seeing it all!
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By: Thomas James,
on 1/29/2016
Please enjoy the wonderful illustration above by Angela Ho, our Pick of the Week for last week’s topic of ORBIT. Thanks to everyone who participated with drawings, paintings, sculptures, and more. We love seeing it all!
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By: Jessica Holden,
on 1/17/2016
Zim & Zou are Lucie Thomas and Thibault Zimmermann, they are two french artists based in Nancy. They use handcrafted objects to make beautiful colourful installations. They studied graphic design for three years whilst at art school, but their studio works in a variety of multidisciplinary ways incorporating illustration, graphic design and paper sculptures. There favourite material to use is paper, making everything by hand.
To find out more visit their website and Behance.
You acknowledge that this is unscientific, but even covering that poll result seems misleading. When two of the choices are diversity, and the only other two relate to the things that a lot of people don’t pay attention to (preview catalogs, press coverage, and interviews), it’s obvious that diversity will finish with a high percentage of the vote.
Consider a poll question like: “What character do you like most?” Choices: (a) Black Widow, (b) Vice, (c) Skateman, and (d) Toad. You couldn’t then write a post saying that 100% of readers prefer Black Widow.
Lack of diversity is and always has been a liability for mainstream comics publishers, and I’d argue that the sales numbers still show that people aren’t buying based on diversity.
(Also, love the site. Really. Keep up the good work.)
First and foremost for me is whether it’s a corporate owned intellectual property or a creator owned intellectual property.
I didn’t vote on that poll on twitter and won’t vote on The Beat’s poll because an important option isn’t included. (and frankly, since The Beat constantly gives sales reports I.m pretty surprised that it was omitted)
Cost.
The cost of single issue comics, most over priced, as compared to buying a collected book or original GN. I haven’t bought a single issue of a comic in over five years now. But not because of diversity, or reviews, or cover or any on that list. I find it’s just more cost effective to buy all the chapters in the book at one time. (and because I feel pretty stupid paying $5 for a 22 page chapter of a story)
Also, 95% of what I read is by cartoonists, not a creative team.
Some factors that influence me that were not part of the poll:
– Character. Marvel was my gateway into comics so I do keep an eye on their output. But a couple decades of Marvel’s seasonal events and churned out stories have gotten me to the point where I only really care about a bare handful of the characters, and almost none of them are A-listers. For example, I’m reading Captain Marvel for Alpha Flight, and the moment they exit the book or their treatment reverts to the standard nonsense, I’m gone.
– Cost (mentioned above). I’m more likely to pick up a $3 book by an unknown than a $5 book from an established franchise. $5 first issues are the reason I decided to give Extraordinary X-Men, the last Ant-Man series, and several other of Marvel’s recent offerings a pass. On the other side of things, $1 issues have gotten me hooked on quite a few Comixology Submit titles.
– Publisher. DC’s recent flailing for direction and Marvel’s clunky attempts to synergize their comics with other-media adaptations have both been something of a turn-off over the last few years. It’s one more barrier to getting me to buy their products and has lead me to actively seek output from publishers I feel have something more interesting to offer.