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Fans Show Their Love For The New-Look Batgirl
Fans Show Their Love For The New-Look Batgirl
Fans Show Their Love For The New-Look Batgirl
It's always nice to have a good news day in comics -- and DC probably agrees after the rapturous reception to yesterday's announcement of the new direction for Batgirl from the new creative team of Cameron Stewart, Brenden Fletcher, Jordie Bellaire, and new discovery Babs Tarr (who we've been telling you about for aaages). Judging by all the Batgirl fan-art produced since yesterday's announcement, we feel sure there's a big appetite out there for a Batgirl comic deliberately designed to appeal to a female and family audience -- and for Batgirl's smartly designed and stylish new costume. With credit to Batgirl fan ComixBookGurl for her Twitter call-to-action, we collected all the new Batgirl fan art we could find in order to celebrate what may be the best Batgirl... ever?
Convention Sketchbook: Original Art From Heroes Con 2014
Convention Sketchbook: Original Art From Heroes Con 2014
Convention Sketchbook: Original Art From Heroes Con 2014
Summer is in full swing, which means that convention season is upon us once again, and with it, the opportunity to get art from some of your favorite comic book creators. As much as I like digging through back issue bins and hanging out with pals from across the country, filling up my sketchbook is one of the most fun parts of going to conventions. So much, in fact, that I actually had two in circulation this year. One was continuing my theme of tokusatsu characters like the Power Rangers and Kamen Rider, while the other was just a general collection of favorite characters. Which, as you might expect, ended up with two drawings of Destro. Check out the new pieces below, featuring art from Tom Fowler, Kevin Mellon, Tom Scioli, Jordan Gibson and more!
Artists Celebrate Harold Ramis With Touching Tributes
Artists Celebrate Harold Ramis With Touching Tributes
Artists Celebrate Harold Ramis With Touching Tributes
Like everyone else, the staff of ComicsAlliance was deeply saddened this week by the death of Harold Ramis. As an actor, writer and director, Ramis had a hand in crafting some of the films that shaped our lives and our sense of humor, including Caddyshack, Animal House and, of course, Ghostbusters, where he played the deadpan Dr. Egon Spengler and cracked up countless moviegoers just by telling th
Best Art Ever (This Week) - 10.11.13
Best Art Ever (This Week) - 10.11.13
Best Art Ever (This Week) - 10.11.13
We make a regular practice at ComicsAlliance of spotlighting particular artists or specific bodies of work, but because cartoonists, illustrators and their fans share countless numbers of great images on sites like Flickr, Tumblr, DeviantArt and seemingly infinite art blogs that we’ve created Best Art Ever (This Week), a weekly depository for just some of the pieces of especially compelling artwor
The Complete Jack Kirby Character Sketchbook (Summer 2013)
The Complete Jack Kirby Character Sketchbook (Summer 2013)
The Complete Jack Kirby Character Sketchbook (Summer 2013)
  For the past few years, I've been taking a sketchbook to conventions across the country and getting pieces of art with a single theme: Characters created or co-created by the King of Comics, Jack Kirby. After 52 sketches, you'd think I'd be running out of characters, but with only a couple repeats, it's still going strong. Today, in honor of Kirby's 96th birthday, I'm putting all the sketches in
Best Art Ever (This Week) – Superman 75th Anniversary Edition
Best Art Ever (This Week) – Superman 75th Anniversary Edition
Best Art Ever (This Week) – Superman 75th Anniversary Edition
We make a regular practice at ComicsAlliance of spotlighting particular artists or specific bodies of work, but because cartoonists, illustrators and their fans share countless numbers of great images on sites like Flickr, Tumblr, DeviantArt and seemingly infinite art blogs that we've created Best Art Ever (This Week), a weekly depository for just some of the pieces of especially compelling artwork that we come across in our regular travels across the Web. Some of it's new, some of it's old, some of it's created by working professionals, some of it's created by future stars, some of it's created by talented fans, and some of it's endearingly silly. All of it's awesome. In honor of this year's 75th anniversary of the first appearance of Superman and this weekend's release of Man of Steel, we present for the second time a compilation of some of the coolest portraits of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's brilliant creation that we've highlighted in this feature over the last few years. We know it's cheating but we didn't count on going away for a month and then coming back in the middle of a big media event. All-new next week evermore.
Best Sketchbook Ever (This Week): Jack Kirby Creations From HeroesCon 2013
Best Sketchbook Ever (This Week): Jack Kirby Creations From HeroesCon 2013
Best Sketchbook Ever (This Week): Jack Kirby Creations From HeroesCon 2013
I'm not much of an original art collector, but getting a sketch from an awesome artist is one of my favorite things to do at a convention. For someone who can't draw at all, watching artists at work is like seeing actual magic happen, and at the end of it, you have a picture of Batman. It's basically the best thing.
Joel Carroll Draws Super Cute Super Heroes [Art]
Joel Carroll Draws Super Cute Super Heroes [Art]
Joel Carroll Draws Super Cute Super Heroes [Art]
In a world where far too few superhero designs look like they could cleanly fit into a scene from Crayon Shin-chan, one artist took it upon himself to unleash a doodle army upon the internet and fix that situation forever. That artist's name is Joel Carroll, and his Wolverine, Batgirl, Black Adam and Evil-Lyn are so cute that you'll want to pinch their puffy little cheeks...