Eric Gill is one of those artists where you have to divorce your feelings about the art from your feelings about the person – that is if you think the art merits such an effort. I have to admit that Read more…
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I think I found Fernando Chamarelli using stumbleupon to browse Flickr so it was one of those wonderful fortuitous moments that occasionally lead us somewhere that we are going to enjoy visiting many times. His profile describes the influence of Read more…
This comic has a great feel from the start — an atmosphere that permeates from the establishing panels of the first installment right through to the current week\’s episode. It has grit — the same kind of grit that pumped Read more…
Freakangels on full alert; well, most of them. I like that the gang are still maintaining their idiosyncratic paths in spite of the current threat to Whitechapel. Here we see the community working together; we see what the whole Freakangels Read more…
When the true crescendo comes in this first arc it is going to be interesting to see how the characters bring what we have seen of each of their personalities to bear on the situation. We saw how handy Jack Read more…
It may strike some people as strange if I admit that I know very little about the artist himself and that I was never overly bothered to find out about him. In the same way that I can watch an Read more…
So, we have seen the freakangels policing each other and now we get to see one go into action against someone who has attacked him. Duffield once again displays a real ability for capturing the kineticism of violence and not Read more…
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…
In one place someone settles in and in another place someone is unsettled. Sometimes it is hard to remember that each episode is only six pages long. To do what he does with those six pages every week shows just 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…