I have one more Spectre series to post, but I figured this week I’d take a break from that series and post something else. I saw something recently about artist Eric Canete’s latest work, and it made me think of this post from back in January, which made me look up his works on the Grand Comics Database to see if he’d done many covers. Although not really a cover artist, I did manage to find 7 pieces that I dig. So without further ado, here are 7 Covers from the incomparable Eric Canete:
(Have a favorite series of your own? Or an artist? Character? Submit your own set of 7 covers by sending me small files (i.e. 72 dpi for the web) to ferret at ferretpress dot com and include “7 covers” in the subject line. Also, let me know if you have a blog or website you’d like me to link to.)
So the press has been all aflutter for Marvel Comics’ kind of borderline offensive “Girl Comics” anthology. Billed as a sort of “celebration of female talent” in the industry, it seems more to me like a consolation prize, and more than a little exploitative. But that’s not the point of this post. I’ve just seen this promo image too many times, with no comment, to just let it go.
Among the high-quality work by some of my favorite creators like Ming Doyle, Colleen Coover, Valerie D’Orazio, and others, there are also some “pinups” of questionable taste – most specifically this one by Sana Takeda (click to enlarge – if you dare):
Am I the only person who’s noticed that She-Hulk has two left feet, LITERALLY? Was that a subversive move, or just a careless one?
I don’t know much about Sana Takeda save from what I’ve Googled. But, as we’ve suspected all along, having Aspen Comics on your resumé apparently gives you free rein to play fast and loose with basic anatomy…
Oops, almost forgot! Here’s your weekend dose of comic book character versus another comic book character: Lobo/Judge Dredd: Psycho-Bikers vs. The Mutants From Hell.
That title alone has enough testosterone for a 3-day weekend!
One of my collaborators, Chris Arrant, interviews the comix destroyer over at CBR. Besides the new DJ’ing gigs, Pope’s noodling away on Battling Boy and other things that won’t leave his studio. I think that’s one of the oddest admissions that’s never mentioned. Paul Pope is drawing every day. Really. It’s not mentioned in this interview, but he’s probably sitting on a hefty pile of warm-ups, unfinished comics, finished comics and the in-progress THB. He said as much the last time he talked at the Wexner.
Adhouse apparently dropped a new THB mish-mash at the Baltimore Comicon last weekend. You can still purchase THB #2 over at Adhouse’s site. It’s about $8 with shipping (for a 32 page comic). I’m kind of curious as to why this wasn’t offered in the DM. Given he’s an established cat, this would have done alright. That publisher’s a curious bird. I’m hesitant to drop $8 on some b-sides, unless I can find some guys who want to go in on grouping an order. Ahem…
I don’t know anything about this 1992 3-issue mini-series by Gerard Jones and Eduardo Barreto, other than the fact that I really dig the cover designs:
I’m not a big fan of all these “break into comics” competitions, as by and large they tend to be gimmicks, designed more for the sake of publicity than actually finding talented newcomers. But this one looks to be pretty solid: Eagle Awards Initiative. Organized by the same folks behind the long-running British “Eagle Awards,” they are open to previously unpublished creators (self-published books seem to be ok, as they define professionals as ones that have received a page rate from a publisher).
Entries, which will be considered on their individual merits, will be judged by a panel of the industry’s top talents. Each should be a clearly told, self contained story of between 4 and 10 pages with no restrictions as to genre. Entrants can be a single writer/artist, a writer and artist, or a writer, penciller and inker team…The winner will have their story published in print and digitally, in multiple languages, and have it available to anyone on the planet.
A cash prize is on offer to the top three entries as voted by the judges:
First: £1,000
Second: £500
Third: £250
They’ve definitely rounded up an impressive list of folks as judges:
Stan Lee
Karen Berger (Executive Editor, Vertigo)
Ellen Abramowitz (Chairman/President, MOCCA)
Tom Brevoort (Editor, Marvel)
Diana Schutz (Editor, Dark Horse)
and a ton of other prominent editors, writers, and artists, including Jeff Smith, Bryan Talbot, Mark Waid, Dave Gibbons, Becky Cloonan, Peter Bagge, etc.
Deadline for entry is November 1, 2010. So head on over and read the submissions guidelines.
I had no idea PANELista Craig Bogart was a batman character created by John Ostrander and Jim Aparo:
(Batman Annual #24, October 2000. Cover by Michael William Kaluta)
Or do you not get royalties because they spelled your name the “extreme” way?
Insert my usual complaints here, then follow the LINK.
Continuing with our look at the various Spectre series at DC, we turn to the 1992 series, helmed by writer John Ostrander, which lasted 63 issues. This series featured a rotating cast of excellent cover artists, which made it difficult for me to pick just 7. (Incidentally, you can find covers from this run in previous 7 Covers posts, here and here.) But here we go:
Artists, left-to-right, top-to-bottom: Charles Vess, George Pratt, Dave Johnson, Kent Williams, Rafael Kayanan, Michael William Kaluta, and series artist Tom Mandrake.
(Have a favorite series of your own? Or an artist? Character? Submit your own set of 7 covers by sending me small files (i.e. 72 dpi for the web) to ferret at ferretpress dot com and include “7 covers” in the subject line. Also, let me know if you have a blog or website you’d like me to link to.)
Forget about Batman and his Batmobile, or even his “God bullet,” the real technologically awesome bullet is the super-speedster all-electric car built at The Ohio State University (my Alma Mater) which recently broke the world record for fastest electric car:
Popular Science has the details.
“…driver Roger Schroer throttled VBB2.5 to a peak speed of 320 miles per hour, logging a two-way average mile speed of 307.66 miles per hour.”
Found on Nationwide Boulevard, outside the Convention Center parking lot: “Stuped Fuck learn how to Park.”
Another ERB-related post for PANELista Brent Bowman…it’s Tarzan vs. Predator: At The Earth’s Core.
I haven’t read this mini-series, but given that it’s written by Walt Simonson, and drawn by Lee Weeks, odds are that it’s a pretty solid, entertaining read (despite the crass premise).
A new one keeps springing up every three months it seems. The indie-con in Pittsburgh is in mid October and is a two-day show. Tables are $25-$45.
Here’s a nice wrap up of an indie con in Minneapolis that happened this weekend. This is one I’ll think about for next year, if they’ll have it again.
For the last decade or so, indie legend Peter Kuper has been doing the venerable Spy vs. Spy comic in Mad magazine. What’s amazing about his style is that he creates them all via hand-cut stencils and spray paint. You can buy the original art on his site. Here’s a look at one of them:
And there’s a great, lengthy interview with him on the Graphic NYC site.