Archive Page 40 | Nasa Messenger, Wonder Woman as drawn by Scott McDaniel, Super Maze number 7, and Kay Francis

Comic Book Brain by Erik Weems. Business site is here.

THINGS TO CLICK

Frank Quitely page from Batman and Robin #2

Tim Sievert page from That Salty Air

Darwyn Cooke page from Batman Black and White

ONLINE COMICS

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Friday, January 18, 2008

This is the image for the front page of my comic book story "Blanket of White" which I am currently working on.

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Messenger at the planet Mercury

NASA image from their "Messenger" probe on its approach toward Mercury, approximately 17,000 miles out.

About NASA Messenger with some history
The last time anything man-made got this close to the planet Mercury was the NASA probe Marinar 10 back in 1974 through 1975.

The complete article with photographs, graphics and an outline program of the Nasa Mesenger program is here.

Monday, January 14, 2008

Jim Aparo : Brave and The Bold VOlume 2

Jim Aparo Batman
Jim Aparo book THE ART OF JIM APARO was
announced in 2005 by twomorrows publishing.

DC Comics has come out with a second volume collection of old Brave and the Bold comics. Part of their low budget black and white "Showcase" series, this book is priced retail at $16.99 USD - or $11.95 USD from amazon.com. It's a "phone book" style tome, and uses pretty cheap newsprint paper, which is interesting because all the comics in this volume were originally printed on that fairly awful newsprint paper in days of yore.

This particular volume has a lot of the early Aparo Batman work (also some nice Nick Cardy art, too). Aparo is only just coming into his 1970s style, and in these pages you can see his compositional strengths are pretty much established, but his detailed inking work has yet to begin to streamline (the most recent art printed in the book is from 1973.)

Jim Aparo index for this site here.

Click to view the page below (from Brave and the Bold #107
from 1973) enlarged.