The concept of reincarnation and the possibility that we return in some new form is an idea that humanity has thought about and obsessed over for thousands of years, and it's fertile ground for storytelling ideas. Next year, First Second continues that tradition with Old Souls by Brian McDonald and Les McClaine, which focuses on one man's obsession with his previous life.
The odds are pretty good that you're already familiar with the art of Les McClaine, whether it's as the creator of the webcomic an artist for the Axe Cop TV show, the co-creator of The Middleman, the artist of The Tick: New Series, or any of his other work as a comic artist and illustrator. If that's the case, you're no doubt already aware that he's one of the most talented artists around, able to shift between multiple styles with each being as fantastic as the last.
But you know what? It's never the wrong time to take a look at some of his amazing work, and if you're one of the poor souls who doesn't already know how beautiful his work is, you're in luck! Check out a few selections from his portfolio below!
Five years after more or less concluding its run as a comic-book-turned-TV-show-turned-comic-book, writer Javier Grillo-Marxauch and artist Les McClaine are reuiniting for a brand new adventure bringing together both the original Viper Comics version of The Middleman and its TV counterpart thanks to a successful Indiegogo campaign.
Movies: Empire Magazine's 2012 Summer Movie preview has new shots of Judge Dredd, The Amazing Spider-Man and The Hobbit in action.
Creators: Sam Humphries, Ramon Perez and cover artist Julian Totino Tedesco are teaming for John Carter: The Gods of Mars, a five-issue series adapting Edgar Rice Burroughs' same-named novel, in March...
If you've been following Les McClaine's blog -- and you should be -- then you already know that over the past two months, the artist of The Middleman and The Tick has been doing something amazing. In an incredible panoramic piece of art called Mayhem at the Manor, McClaine has been telling the story of an assault on Wayne Manor by an army of Batman's greatest foes through a cutaway packed with incredible details and a massive cast of heroes and villains...
The Eisner and Harvey-winning cartoonist behind such works as Same Difference and Other Stories, The Eternal Smile (with Gene Luen Yang) and Good As Lily (with Jesse Hamm), Derek Kirk Kim is expanding his creative repertoire with a new live-action Web series...
It's getting to be that time of year when you can hardly turn around without running into someone in the middle of a monologue about "the true meaning of Christmas." Thing is, comics are a medium that support the viewpoint that escapism is an okay thing to have once in a while...