comics!

[aimeekitty]

My friend Luis drew me a DR! :D We worked together on the Simpsons (and Luis still works there.) Check out his blog!

This is a Comic-Book Day post!

So I picked up "Doctor Who: The Forgotten" recently. I took a look at some of the other Doctor Who comics,... and well, frankly... I didn't care for them. But I really like the art (by Pia Guerra) in this one! It's a good likeness while keeping things lively and not too-photo-reffed. (I wish the cover was drawn by Pia Guerra, too!!)
I took a quick look through a bunch of other american comics, and I couldn't really find anything to catch my interest. So much stuff now has bad drawing (eyes floating off the side of the face) or way too stiff and obviously photo-reffed... or just not the type of art I enjoy looking at.

I did finally pic up Jo Chen's The Other Side of the Mirror. I've been a big fan of her art for years. Her figural work even in comic panels is gorgeous!

I'm still reading (and enjoying) XXXHoLic...

I find myself loosing interest in Nana (I'm up to about 70)... all the angst is just wearing thin on me.

Also, I got a couple of Paul Adam's UNTAMED sketchbooks (you can pick them up through his website)! He's one of the folks who collaborated on our Chimera comic a couple years ago. The awesome thing about Paul's art is that he can draw hot babes, awesome looking monsters with awesome mouths, and rad action sequences.

Comments

[slai.livejournal.com]

Hi Aimee,

Yeah, Pia Guerra is one of the artists I actually like for IDW's Doctor Who. I have no idea why IDW switches artists for each and every issue. I guess they're trying to speed up the release schedule or something, but it makes for very inconsistent art for one story arc =/.

The Forgotten looks very interesting unlike IDW's first series whose storyline was just messy I thought ;b. There were a couple good issues, but that's about it.

[slai.livejournal.com]

Hi Aimee,

P.S. I just LOVE this cover X)!

[taeha.livejournal.com]

If you like Pia Guerra (I do, I love her art, and she looks like me! XD), you should check out Y:The Last Man. The entire 60 issue series has been collected into trade paperbacks, and it's a fantastic read. The art is just solid and good.

[caerbannog.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I really like Pia Guerra's art on this. Thanks for the heads up, it's been too long since I last went to the comic book store.

[bonegoddess.livejournal.com]

DUDE OMG happy belated birthday....heh.

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :) glad to see you back among the living? (or is that back among the addicted to the internet. I'm not sure that applies as living nessesarily...)

[bonegoddess.livejournal.com]

I was gone for a while because my life was weird and my job was hell, which made my life even more weird/boring/didn't wanna talk to anyone anymore.but I'm better now!

Just getting back into the whole internet art scene...you know....without getting too "close"...o_O

I want to still enjoy it after a month. getting too involved means dealing with morons.

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

just ignore the dramaz and post pretties. and then plug your ears. :P :)

[ashbet]

Mark Bagley is a huge offender in the wandering-eyeball thing -- I pointed it out to Kyle, and now he CAN'T UNSEE IT. Oops.

Pia Guerra seems to be doing a fabulous job with this!

-- A <3

[rashomonchb.livejournal.com]

I still have to photo reference the art of The Doctor that I have done. I am not planning to do a ton of art for the character. Mostly it has been for fun and for my brother who is a huge fan. I do try to adapt the different Doctors to my style for the most part and not make them too realistic. At least I hope I don't.

[semi-hitokiri.livejournal.com]

I picked up the issue too and it was great. The artwork and writing was solid. The cover artwork annoys me though, why Nick Roche?

I Know what you mean by lousy artwork these days, I was going to pick up Fantastic Four: True Story but I was hesitant since the artwork looked awful even the coloring, so I decided to wait for the graphic novel.