Mike Manley

Don’ forget our Project Forge of Monsters is still going! Our collective love letter to 70’s monster comics! You can cop a copy with the link!

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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Another old Skullkids

Sporykhin. I love those Russian painters

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Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Another old life painting from Scott Noel’s class. He loved these narratives where he had the models against the big windows in the elevator lobby. Often mixed in with the other students. Quick one class paintings. Hit it fast! Oil 2010

A life drawing from Scott Noel’s class. First he’d pose the skeleton and then the model and you’d draw over the first drawing. Nue pastel in Rives BFK 2008

Ha. It would be better to not have to stitch together posts. And post longer image threads. I was trying to post something yesterday and it wouldn’t let me— so fuck it. Facebook is still the best format that way.

A comic book page from JLA: Classified by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez & Klaus Janson depicting a despot lecturing shocked world leaders via television screens.

Check out what can be accomplished by changing the size of the protagonist's figure throughout the page. Makes time changes less dependent on panel borders, creates depth that defies the flat plane of the page, & makes a talking heads page into a journey. Superb acting, also. Garcia-Lopez & Janson.

Another great Al Williamson page

Posting here is so frustrating

Hey you know whatever works. My performance in on the board. It only matters what’s on the page or canvas. For the young social media makes it seem that you have to do all this other useless stuff so they can get likes that won’t last as career

Old inktober

Always a challenge to draw the bed chamber scenes where I can't show The Phantoms face while he is in bed. The domestic scenes are way more of a challenge than action.

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Weird Terror #7 (1953). On the cover, as coal is being shoveled into a furnace by an evil looking dude, and we are viewing this from inside the furnace, a hand is visible in the flames.

Cover by Don Heck.

Kirby and Williamson

An old day in the studio working on the Phantom with @liangarts.bsky.social and @mimisimon.com from 6 -7 years ago. The best way to tech is like this. On the job.

Al Williamson doing what he did best

Old Inktober pen and ink

Old painting of the 69th St depot

A little mini-comic I started years ago, but lost all the art

Some nice copies of Mark Schultz's pencils on Xenezoic from back in the day when he visited Williamson's studio in the late 80's.

great Mike Mignola page inked by Craig Russell that I sold during a big financial/ tuition crisis ---I really wish I didn't have to sell it--such a fantastic page--now owned by some guy in Germany I think.

Back when I was teaching my High School illustration class I’d do these fast lectures on sketching/ thumb nailing ideas. I’d give the students themes/ideas to work with. I have done this before and it helps students who are stuck with starting. Everybody was coming up with great ideas and thumbnails

Old Inktober