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Check it out: Farel Dalrymple, one of my favorite comic book artists, did a short story entitled "Em and Gwen in: Magic Spell" for the Dark Horse Presents series run through Myspace. It's surreal, ambiguous, and stars precocious children, like most of the works I've read by him. The art is fantastic- his style is so dynamic and playful, with excellent attention to line. I'm not sure how I'm feeling the colors though (done by Jim Campbell). Nothing wrong with it, I just think I like his black and white stuff best. It's a bit more audacious, I guess.
For more from this exceptional artist, he posts news and sketches fairly regularly to his livejournal, and both contributes to and edits the phenomenal Meathaus anthologies. He's also the guy who did art for the acclaimed Jonathan Lethem-penned Omega the Unknown revamp.
And his solo graphic novel Pop Gun War ranks among my favorite comics (you know, the one that's the basis for my tattoo?). I'd recommend anything he's worked on for fans of imaginative, sort of weird, and really gorgeous comic books. Or anyone who trusts in my good taste!
Let's take a turn and talk a little about comic art, a topic dear to my heart but one which I haven't had much chance to discuss here.
I went to the NY Comic Con for the first time today and am still sort of reeling. So much going on all at once! But it was very fun, despite feeling pretty unorganized. One of the highlights was meeting Greg Horn, one of my favourite comic book cover artists. He was so nice! Unfortunately I missed the opportunity to get a personal sketch drawn because I was partying with Joss Whedon. Le sigh, priorities.
He signed my issue of Emma Frost #14, an excellent but short-lived series through which he first came to my attention.
I purchased this print, which he signed as well! And he showed me pictures of his son!
His work is just so stunning, incorporating fantastic angles and posing for really eye-catching pieces. Any comic with his image on the cover is instantly something I'd like to read. He works in an impressive near-photo-realism uncommon to the over-the-top genre. He seems to often drift into made-for-pinup mode and characters, but that's cool considering his main audience. Check out some images I dig below, and be sure to keep an eye on his website. He updates it pretty frequently with images and commentary about his process as well as personal news.
He did a cover for one of my favourite series ever, Mystique (the first issue of which I searched tirelessly and fruitlessly for while I was there).
He's known for the numerous Elektra covers he's done. A lot of tactful maneuvering to avoid showing her bare behind.
More recently, he did a series of promo images for Secret Invasion, with a bunch of popular Marvel characters turning into Skrulls. Badass.
I don't even know what this is from but damn if it isn't an awesome image to end with.
Batman #195 by Kelli Nelson. (orginal cover)
Strange Worlds #4 by Mark Todd. (original cover)
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #211 by Robert Goodin. (original cover)
2001: A Space Odyssey #6 by Michael DeForge. (original cover)
Eerie #14 by Krisztián Puska. (original cover)
Battle Chasers #7 by Michaela Colette Zacchilli. (original cover)
X-Factor #31 by Marcos Pérez. (original cover)
For more from this exceptional artist, he posts news and sketches fairly regularly to his livejournal, and both contributes to and edits the phenomenal Meathaus anthologies. He's also the guy who did art for the acclaimed Jonathan Lethem-penned Omega the Unknown revamp.
And his solo graphic novel Pop Gun War ranks among my favorite comics (you know, the one that's the basis for my tattoo?). I'd recommend anything he's worked on for fans of imaginative, sort of weird, and really gorgeous comic books. Or anyone who trusts in my good taste!
Let's take a turn and talk a little about comic art, a topic dear to my heart but one which I haven't had much chance to discuss here.
I went to the NY Comic Con for the first time today and am still sort of reeling. So much going on all at once! But it was very fun, despite feeling pretty unorganized. One of the highlights was meeting Greg Horn, one of my favourite comic book cover artists. He was so nice! Unfortunately I missed the opportunity to get a personal sketch drawn because I was partying with Joss Whedon. Le sigh, priorities.
He signed my issue of Emma Frost #14, an excellent but short-lived series through which he first came to my attention.
I purchased this print, which he signed as well! And he showed me pictures of his son!
He did a cover for one of my favourite series ever, Mystique (the first issue of which I searched tirelessly and fruitlessly for while I was there).
He's known for the numerous Elektra covers he's done. A lot of tactful maneuvering to avoid showing her bare behind.
More recently, he did a series of promo images for Secret Invasion, with a bunch of popular Marvel characters turning into Skrulls. Badass.
I don't even know what this is from but damn if it isn't an awesome image to end with.
