2024年10月

For this feature I’m turning my eyes towards manga. I really hope everyone knows what manga is, but just to be safe, manga, literally, means comics in Japanese. Right now one of my favorites manga artist/writers is Boichi. Mu-jik Park (박무직; born January 29, 1973), known professionally as Boichi, is a South Korean manga artist living in Japan. I first came across his work, probably online somewhere but I know it was this image; What struck was the boldness of the composition as well as the speed in the lines and detail, above all. All of his work has this level of detail and it’s quite striking. The other striking thing is that his work is

This one is for the younger crowd. Let us introduce you to a legend. Jim Aparo. Jim Aparo was an American comic book artist, best known for his DC Comics work from the late 1960s through the 1990s, including on the characters Batman, Aquaman, and the Spectre, along with famous stories such as The Brave and the Bold, “A Death in the Family”, and “KnightFall”. Aparo was primarily self-taught by studying and copying comic books. Growing up and taking inspiration from characters such as Superman, Batman, and Captain Marvel. Aparo was influenced by artists such as Alex Raymond and Milton Caniff. Aparo started his comic career later than most artists around the time working in advertising first while sending his art

This is a special one for me, because I place Juan Gimenez as 1 of my Top 5 Favorite Artists of All Time. Juan Antonio Giménez Lópezwas born in Mendoza, Argentina. He finished his high school education as an industrial designer. He attended the National University of Cuyo’s School of Arts and Design followed by the Academy of Fine Arts in Barcelona. His early professional career was spent in advertising, with writing and drawing comics as a side activity, he eventually moved into comics as a full-time profession by his thirties.  He started getting his own stories published when he was sixteen years old in Argentina magazines Frontera, Misterix and Hora Cero.  He published his first French release Leo Roa (The Starr

ROSS ANDRU Part 1  My favorite comicbook artist of all time is John Romita Sr. Has been since the day I first saw his work. I must have been 4 or 5 at the time. I lived with my grandparents, you see, and their youngest son, my uncle, had stacks of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN and MARVEL TALES comics around the house.             So telling you how much I admire John Romita’s work … is kind of a strange way to start discussing my love for the work of Ross Andru, eh? But here we are. First off, don’t worry. Future me is already working on an essay detailing my love of Jazzy