Category: Comics

“A Savage Art: The Life and Cartoons of Pat Oliphant” – The Poster and Trailer are Here!

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A Savage Art: The Life and Cartoons of Pat Oliphant – the poster and trailer are here!

Deal me in.

In theaters September 5.
https://asavageart.com/

Patrick Oliphant was a giant slayer. In addition to being a fearless stunt pilot, executing dangerous maneuvers just to blow off a little steam, he bravely took on presidents, popes and the American corporate class with his mighty pen.

An Australian transplant, Oliphant was America’s most renowned and feared political cartoonist for five decades. With his biting wit and masterful drawing skills he attacked individual and institutional corruption, collusion, greed, hypocrisy and arrogance, no matter the size or status of his enemies.

A Savage Art is the story of Oliphant’s life and celebrated career, told in interviews with Pat, his family, friends and colleagues, in archival footage, and featuring hundreds of his cartoons.

A Savage Art also outlines the history of political cartoons, showing how important and impactful political cartoonists have been throughout the ages, and how, in our current climate of political partisanship and corporate control of the media, political cartoonists like Oliphant are critical to checking the powers that be.

Directed by Bill Banowsky

“Superman” (1978) by Tony Stella!

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I have no interest in seeing the new Superman movie.  Not to worry, I think it will do just fine without my few dollars spent on a ticket.  Also, I am not in the targeted audience demographic for the new film.

Now the Richard Donner directed outing with Christopher Reeve… well, that was a different story.

Targeted demographic or not, I think that Tony Stella‘s Superman poster is just… super.

THE PUNISHER: CIRCLE OF BLOOD Art by Mike Zeck & John Beatty!

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There have been many great artists who’ve drawn the Punisher.  I like many of their interpretations.  But for me, the Punisher by Mike Zeck and John Beatty always comes to mind first.

The splash page above is from Punisher: Circle of Blood (Vol.1 #2 page 2).  If you click over to The Bristol Board, you can see a much larger version of the page, plus a copy of Mike’s original pencils and John’s inks.  It is definitely worth a look.

Sly Stallone as Deke DaSilva from “Nighthawks” by Pat Broderick!

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I first met Pat Broderick at OrlandoCon 1977.  Pat was a young artist and I was an even younger fan.  I was impressed at how easy-going and friendly Pat was (and that’s not taking into consideration what a talented artist he is).  Over the years we became friends.  It’s always cool to see Pat at a show.  He’s still killing it with new art and comic series!

Back in 2005, at a Tampa Show, I got Pat’s take on Sly Stallone as Deke DaSilva from Nighthawks.