showed this page to some students today as an example of a perfect use of the comics medium: Eye direction :cloud movement, horizon line, kid running/scale Small rough word balloons to show distance/sound being drowned out by waves vs large sharp balloon/text so perfect.

Amen! Forgive the shameless plug but this exactly the reason I made LIZARD IN A ZOOT SUIT. Pachucas deserve adventure too! https://t.co/OgR23eYjfn




As comics get more "widescreen" I've really come to appreciate the sweet, skinny, vertical panels of Miller's DD




Perez used them as well (probably where they first saw them) and they're great at showing mood (1st image)but Miller's controlled pacing, movement AND mood. Cinematic without being widescreen




Take a Toppi Break with me won't you? Master of texture, design, use of negative space and scale.

Today's inspiration Rodolfo Damaggio's Captain America Storyboards

Some Rodolfo Damaggio to end your week right

As comics get more "widescreen" I've really come to appreciate the sweet, skinny, vertical panels of Miller's DD

we do not spend enough time gushing over how great John Bogdanove is. Great Cartooning skills, amazing draftsmanship and gestures. From a new mutants annual and X-terminators

Kurtzman. I want comics to be colored like this again

Urasawa's celebrity portraits are the best

my favorite Neal Adams stuff was his comic strip work...what a legend

Toth famously said " Strip it down to the essentials and Draw the hell out of what's left". Calling something "simple" because of a lack of (over)rendering implies that less lines = less work. Here's Toth keeping it Simple

Little Breakdowns of the "hellboy style" made by @TadStones for the Hellboy animated shows to capture the @artofmmignola magic. So great https://t.co/wiUceHtiKC

Let's spend Monday gushing over Barry Windsor-Smith, shall we? This is the closest we will get to seeing how Michelangelo would've drawn comics. Classic draftsmanship and beautiful storytelling

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