Scott McCloud: Understanding Comics

I thought this was a cool video of Scott McCloud sharing a story about comics as a visual form of story-telling, and where it could go when translated onto the web (keeping the spacial relations intact/using the web window as a page-viewer rather than a movie screen). I think this is interesting from a design standpoint too.

Check out his comic Zot! Online: "Hearts and Minds" or some of his other web comics to see his explorations of sharing comics online. They're really fun!

Character artist Jack Kirby

An interesting interview with Jack Kirby, creator of quite a few famous comic book super-hero characters. (From A chat with...PJ Holden and Al Ewing (part four))

I'm also reading Watchmen right now. (I'll tell you how it goes.) It's got a lot of acclaim, plus they're releasing Watchmen as a movie in March. It looks pretty intriguing. (Great website design too!)

finding Inner Sanctum

I recently wanted to explore graphic novels - to see if I might find any illustrators and writers who I might connect with. (I had just finished reading The Picture Bible, illustrated by André Le Blanc, and surprisingly enjoyed it!) ... So I went to the library to explore other graphic novels and see if I might find anything interesting. ...

I happened to pick up Flight, v2 - which is a compilation of various short-stories in graphic form, from different illustrators/writers. I was amazed when the first story I read was Inner Sanctum by Michel Gagné!! Wow!! I was amazed. The whole short story is available online. You should check it out. It's amazing!

I also really enjoyed:
• "Destiny Express" by Jen Wang
• "The Orange Grove" by Kazu Kibuishi (who also organizes the Flight books)
• "The Ride" by Rodolphe Guenoden
• "Ghost Trolley" by Rad Sechrist
• "Impossible" by Herval
• "A Test for Centri" by Amy Kim Ganter.

Now I'm onto Flight, v3. So far, so good!!

Thanks Kazu and Michel!
I'm really getting into graphic novels because of Inner Sanctum and the Flight books!

Jimiyo’s FREE Motorcity

YouWorkForThem has some great stock photos, vector images, fonts, brushes, etc. I happened to find this great freebie download of bird illustrations by Jimiyo. Beautiful birds!! Free to download. Thanks Jimiyo! :)

The Reverse Graffiti Project

The Reverse Graffiti Project - a beautiful art project in San Francisco - a reverse graffiti mural of indigenous plants in an urban space.

The artist - Moose - has some other great design projects/creative ideas of communication in the city. Check 'em out! :)

My friend Matthieu Brajot also helped out on this cool project.

mural mosaic: hundreds of paintings, one masterpiece mural

This is a great collaboration project for fine artists - a mural mosaic - a beautiful idea by illustrators Lewis Lavoie & Phil Alain. I like their idea for the Wildlife Ark Mural-in-a-Book idea ... it makes buying a piece much more affordable, fun for the buyer to put together and goes well with content – seeing the beauty of each piece individually and then seeing how they synergize to form a different beauty when they're all-together.

Attitude + Power --> Performance

Attitude + Power --> Performance
Originally uploaded by Telstar Logistics

Wow! A beautiful article about the pioneer of the automotive design - Harley Earl.

I love how much information is packed into this beautiful illustration - it holds analogies for so many things. Make sure to check out the other illustrations and this article as well.