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I Didn’t Know Bruce: Bruce Lee at the Wing Luke Museum

April 2, 2015

I have a confession to make. In spite of being relatively well-rounded in other areas of nerdom (video game RPGs, tabletop games, anime and manga, sci-fi and fantasy novels, and 80s movies), there is one area in which I have fallen resoundingly flat. I hope my friends will still speak to me ...

Art & Design, Manga

Fairy Tail — Cover Stories: Judge a Book on Whether You’d Buy It

January 23, 2015

Encountering tables or shelves full of manga can be overwhelming, and you’re not always ready to do a month’s worth of research before you feel like buying a book. So how do you pick from the mess? You judge it by its cover. I do, anyway. Last time I judged Durara!, These are my ...

Art & Design, Comics

It Could Still Happen: Plan B-200 by Rachel Masilamani

January 23, 2015

I’m not a mother, but I might have been. When I was nineteen I had an abortion. It wasn’t the right time, I was depressed, and the pregnancy was working hard to hasten the end of a bad relationship. I don’t need to give you excuses or reasons, but we do it anyway, don’t ...

Art & Design

Creativity for Creativity’s Sake

November 12, 2014

What inspires our love of comics and other geek creations is the creativity involved: inventing characters, worlds, and stories and visualizing them in unique ways. Sometimes we read them to escape, to feel connected, to feel challenged. Creativity is a comic creator’s job. I envy that. ...

Art & Design

Multifarious: Art Untranslatable

October 18, 2014

I am sucker for typography and illustration. These illustrations by artist Ellen Frances Sanders depicting untranslatable words combine my favorite things: typography, illustration, and the charming and often frustrating nuance of languages: While you are at it, take a look at her other ...

Art & Design, Comics

Off With Her Head! Klimt Goes To Drakulon: A Discussion of Art, Reference, and Story

October 16, 2014

Gorgeous, right? This is Judith and the Head of Holofernes, or Judith I, by Klimt. Gustav Klimt is enduringly famous, as his work should be — it’s also often referenced. Judith, the subject of the picture, is an Old Testament heroine who achieves political grace by gratifying and ...

Art & Design

Multifarious: The Rude Art of the Polite Protest

October 11, 2014

NSFW: Painted nudity. This week it’s all art we love and art we love talking about. Welcome back to Multifarious! Artist Janet Bruesselbach has begun a series of gorgeous oil portraits of trans women, Daughters of Mercury. She’s currently raising funds for the project on Kickstarter.

Art & Design

Multifarious: Which Inspires Awe

September 27, 2014

This photographer: http://www.sashaarutyunova.com/ Absolutely stunning photographs of people, places, things. I follow Sasha Arutyunova on Facebook, Instagram, and her website. In an age of constant BuzzFeed articles telling me which “10 Photographs Will Inspire Awe,” and “25 Pictures That Will ...

Art & Design

Comic Cover Showdown: Big Trouble In Little China #4 vs Alien Legion: Dead and Buried

September 23, 2014

Welcome to Comic Cover Showdown, where we pit new comic releases against one another to see who has the stronger cover design. We’ll be critiquing covers by referring to fine art elements, so you should expect to come away from this with new knowledge. This showdown’s theme is negative space.

Art & Design, Comics

Thinking Outside the Panel

September 18, 2014

Reading David Mack’s Kabuki: Circle of Blood was an entirely new experience for me. Back then, I was firmly in my superhero phase, keen on colourful and shiny art by the likes of Jim Lee and Marc Silvestri. Kabuki’s black and white format and Mack’s style was a bit off putting. Thankfully, I ...

Arts

I Didn’t Know Bruce: Bruce Lee at the Wing Luke Museum

Fairy Tail — Cover Stories: Judge a Book on Whether You’d Buy It

It Could Still Happen: Plan B-200 by Rachel Masilamani

Creativity for Creativity’s Sake

Multifarious: Art Untranslatable

Off With Her Head! Klimt Goes To Drakulon: A Discussion of Art, Reference, and Story

Multifarious: The Rude Art of the Polite Protest

Multifarious: Which Inspires Awe

Comic Cover Showdown: Big Trouble In Little China #4 vs Alien Legion: Dead and Buried

Thinking Outside the Panel

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