Category: Art

‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ Trivia

Film School Rejects presents 25 Things We Learned from the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Commentary.  Here are three of my favorites…

2. We see the number 42 early on — and will see it in the film again — and it’s a reference to Miles Morales’ (Shameik Moore) origin story involving a lottery that landed him at his elite prep school. It was also Jackie Robinson’s jersey number, but “it has nothing to do with Douglas Adams.”

9. It was Ramsay’s idea to hold off on the visual comic language — word bubbles, panels, etc. — until Miles is bitten by the spider.

“If you hit pause anytime a train goes, because everybody wanted to animate Stan [Lee], he’s in almost every single train.”

Frank Miller’s Daredevil Covers

What we have today is a gallery of Frank Miller’s Daredevil covers courtesy of PencilInk.  Man, that was a glorious run of well-written, well drawn stories.  Miller of course did the writing and pencils and Klaus Janson provided the inks.

If you click over to PencilInk you can click on each cover to see a larger version as well as a summary of the issue.

“Going to the Chapel” New Crime Mini-Series Preview!

Going to the Chapel is a new four issue mini-series written by David Pepose, with art by Gavin Guidry, colors by Liz Kramer, and letters by Ariana Maher.  Pepose describes the series as…

…Die Hard meets Kill Bill meets 3000 Miles to Graceland.

If that’s not enough to get you interested, then perhaps Syfywire’s coverage with more of Pepose’s discussion of the series, character sheets by Maan House (who also created the cover above) plus preview pages by Gavin Guidry.

Josh Greathouse’s Art Book!

Joshua Greathouse has a new art book featuring covers, sketches, paintings and a preview of his next series Unprofessional coming out.  Enlightenment is now on Kickstarter.

If you click over to give it a look, you’ll get a glimpse of the Get Carter piece that Greathouse did for me.  I’d think that for many readers of this site, the Stallone art would be enough to support Josh’s Kickstarter.  ; )

Legends of the Dark Knight: Michael Golden

Legends of the Dark Knight: Michael Golden is a book that quite a few readers are going to want. If “Michael Golden” in the title isn’t enough to get folks to reach for their wallets perhaps the fact that it will be a hard cover reprinting rarely seen stories featuring Batman drawn by, you guessed it, Michael Golden!

The 1970s stories starring Batman featuring the slick artwork of Michael Golden are collected for the first time, including appearances by the Demon and Man-Bat. Golden is renowned for his design skills and unique interpretation of Batman and other heroes, as seen in these early stories, written by well-known comics writers including Dennis O’Neil, Gerry Conway and Mike W. Barr.

Collects shis collects stories from Batman Family #15-20, Batman #295, #303, DC Special Series #15, Detective Comics #482, Batman Special #1, Batman: Gotham Knights #22. It also collects the covers from Detective Comics #625-626, 628-631, 633, 644-646, Batman #484-485, Showcase ’93Nightwing#66-77 & #129-130 and the Man-Bat entry from Who’s Who in the DC Universe #12.

Legends of the Dark Knight: Michael Golden is available for pre-order now.