Category: Art

LEAD CITY by Eric Borden and Kyle Brummond!

The LEAD CITY graphic novel by Eric Borden and Kyle Brummond comes out today.  I bought LEAD CITY when it was first on Kickstarter.  If you didn’t, here is your chance to get the complete series in a single trade paperback.  The synopsis from the publisher…

A farmer enters a deadly gunfighter competition in order to save his family.

Doesn’t exactly make you want to shell out your hard-earned cash, does it?  That’s too bad, because LEAD CITY is a fun story with cool art.  Let’s try the write-up from Kickstarter.  If LEAD CITY sounds like something you’d like, you know what to do.

Sly Stallone as Jack Carter by Gary Shipman!

Gary Shipman is a self taught artist and writer.  Shipman has been nominated for Eisner, Harvey and Russ Manning awards.  When I saw that Gary Shipman was regularly doing sketchcard (and other) commissions on WhatNot, I decided to try to get one.  As you can see above from Shipman’s riff on Sly Stallone as Jack Carter, I succeeded.  And he nailed it.  Look for more Gary Shipman art here in the near future!

You can see more of Gary Shipman’s art at his webpage, his Instagram page and on his Whatnot stream.

Robert McGinnis’ Censored Art for “Dr. No”!

Tony Stella shared this on his Twitter feed and I thought it was interesting.  The bottom art by the great Robert McGinnis was used to promote James Bond in Dr. No.  Compare it to the top art and you can see how it was censored prior to use.  Bond is given shorts.  The lady isn’t as well endowed and what she has is better covered.  Also note the changes in her face.  In the top art she seems to enjoy her, uh, job at hand much more.  ; )

GOTHAM CITY: YEAR ONE by Tom King and Phil Hester!

GOTHAM CITY: YEAR ONE by Tom King (writer) and Phil Hester (artist) has been getting rave reviews.  It is coming out in hardcover and Kindle editions on September 5th.  Here’s the lowdown…

There once was a shining city on the water, a home for families, hope, and prosperity. It was Gotham and it was glorious.

The story of its fall from grace, the legend that would birth the Bat, has remained untold for 80 years.

That’s about to change.

Superstar creators Tom King and Phil Hester team up for the first time to tell the definitive origin of Gotham City: how it became the cesspool of violence and corruption it is today, and how it harbored and then unleashed the sin that led to the rise of the Dark Knight. Two generations before Batman, private investigator Slam Bradley gets tangled in the “kidnapping of the century” as the infant Wayne heir disappears in the night…and so begins a brutal, hard-boiled, epic tale of a man living on the edge and a city about to burn.