This opening scene literally sucks you into the story. this one point perspective pulls everything (SFX and all) into the story. Look at the P in plastic man!! Jack Cole was so ahead of his time and I don't think anyone has approached this level yet

Jack Cole really could do it all better than most Slapstick ✔️ Horror ✔️ Crime ✔️ Daily UPA style strip ✔️




Just for my own edification I thought I would try to show how the 12 principles (disney's 9 old men version) are applied to one jack cole page. From Plastic Man 49


okay art folks: I am currently in a deep dive of cartoonists like Jack Cole, Eisner, Oksner, Lucey who else should i be looking at? who else is in this lange





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

Eisner