I actually think I became aware of Egon Schiele at the same time that I became aware of Gustav Klimt and I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a common pairing. Stylistically you can definitely see some grounds for comparison Read more…
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I think as much as anything that Jamie McKelvie writes it is his design work which I find so fascinating and compelling — it is not something that everyone who puts comics together pays much attention to. I think it Read more…
Talking of the wondrous hyperlink bounce — the internet led me here from, of all place, facebook. Metatextual reading, the idea that you read books in an associative web of links set up by references and influences, obviously takes on Read more…
Thankfully there are more and more entry points becoming available into different areas of the creative sphere — every single time you make one discovery there are a thousand more in attendance — all hyperlinked and convenient for you. To Read more…
I have my wife to thank for finding this artist, and is often the case nowadays it was an accidental stumbling across him while looking for something else online. I looked over and there he was, or rather there his Read more…
I can’t remember where I saw this — maybe it was that arch egotist Jim Morrison who gave me the idea — but in an effort to get to know myself and elucidate some upon my new books, I am Read more…
these are some of the books i have been working on this week — all covers designed by moi. let me know what you think. you can buy them here my store
the (r)evolution of modern expression: it is a phrase that captures so much of the spirit of mike’s work, whether it is his art or his writing. the pieces are alive with process, with thought, with meaning — like the Read more…
To complete the trilogy of talented artists from Whitechapel that I wanted to draw people’s attention to comes Zira Sparovec. I have had the pleasure, as have the other members of Warren Ellis’s extended online community, to see some of Read more…
I seem to be spotlighting people that I have found through Whitechapel, Warren Ellis’s online community today. The number of people on that site with real creative talent is staggering and some of the work that you are privileged to Read more…