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1. Rick Olson says; December 12, 2008 @ 5:08 pm

   Kimberly, great art. I especially like Emslie’s vision of Vertigo and Brothers’ Edwidge Fenech. I seem to remember she was a choice for the 20 Actress Meme ….

2. ratzkywatzky says; December 13, 2008 @ 10:39 am

   The Alamo Drafthouse has been commissioning some great posters over the years. Here are a couple of the latest:
   http://tinyurl.com/5zoplz
   and great Cool Hand Luke and Robocop posters:
   http://tinyurl.com/5f9qdb
   Here’s the store that sells them all, and,luckily, they store images of the ones that are no longer available for your viewing pleasure:
   http://tinyurl.com/6oq5qo
   I bought this fine Two Lane Blacktop for a friend at the Flatstock convention in Seattle last year:
   http://tinyurl.com/69hd2w

3. Neil says; December 13, 2008 @ 2:44 pm

   These are indeed magnificent, including several I’d never seen. Thanks so much for posting these.

4. Bob says; December 13, 2008 @ 4:10 pm

   Great, great stuff Kimberly. I’ve been hearing great things about Darwyn Cooke myself. (He did a revival of one my all time favorite strip, the soon-to-be-utterly-travestied “The Spirit,” a few years back that I really should check out some day.)

   I have to see Jaime’s contribution at some point. Both he and brother Gilbert are pretty serious movie fans (surprised he didn’t contribute as well), so that’s got to be good.

5. Martin says; December 14, 2008 @ 4:44 am

   For people interested in very rare japanese posters, just check our new ‘Art Theater Guild’ gallery on this link :
   http://eigagogo.free.fr/Articles/ATG/atg_10.htm

6. Neil says; December 14, 2008 @ 9:42 am

   Responding to Bob’s comment, I’ve read the first half of Darwyn Cooke’s run on “The Spirit” and it is indeed a lot of fun. He also did a Catwoman story, “Selina’s Big Score”, which is done in the style of Richard Stark’s Parker novels, and it’s magnificent… and even more excitingly is currently working on a series of adaptations of the original Parker novels.

   And that First Man in Space is one of my favorites up there.

7. logboy says; December 14, 2008 @ 1:36 pm

   love sienkiewicz; surely you mean “stray toasters”?

8. cinebeats says; December 15, 2008 @ 1:14 am

   Glad you enjoyed the post, Rick & Neil! And thanks for sharing other art links ratzkywatzky & Martin.

   Neil - I sort of stopped following comics after 1998 so I think I must have missed a lot of Cooke’s early work. I’d like to see his Spirit and Catwoman stories so thanks for the tip. I like Cooke’s style a lot.

   Logboy - Thanks for catching my typo, which I’ve dutifully corrected. I was also reminded of a Wolverine story that Bill Sienkiewicz did that I really liked. It was a mini series turned into a graphic novel called Inner Fury. I’m not much of a Wolverine fan, but I really liked the way he drew him. Sienkiewicz is a talented artist!

9. Luca says; December 16, 2008 @ 1:47 am

   Great post!
   I simply think on nowdays illustration would have to be used more for Cinema!

10. Keith says; December 16, 2008 @ 7:50 am

    That is so awesome! I love all of those. I would love to have any of those on my walls in my pad. Thanks for sharing those with us.

11. Paul says; December 16, 2008 @ 8:53 am

    Here’s a link with a few more samples of the new poster art: http://www.ericskillman.com/artdirection.html

    Great blog btw!

12. ratzkywatzky says; December 16, 2008 @ 10:49 pm

    And then there’s this Chris Ware piece I just read about on Greencine:
    http://tinyurl.com/5omrzv

13. Andrew Monroe says; December 17, 2008 @ 8:48 am

    Darwyn Cooke did a terrific Justice League of America mini-series: The New Frontier. It`s been collected in a trade and also, if you`ve got deep pockets, a beautiful hardcover Absolute Edition. It should be right up your alley, Kimberly, as it`s set in the Silver Age. I love his retro style. Btw, The New Frontier was also made into an animated film, the dvd is fairly cheap and should also be at Netflix. They did a respectable job of capturing the style of the comics, if neccesarily also having to leave out a lot of the subplots.

    I loved his all-too-brief run on The Spirit too.

14. Neil says; December 17, 2008 @ 12:13 pm

    I second Andrew’s comments on “The New Frontier”. Excellent stuff. My problem is only being a little in love with “Selina’s Big Score” - which is out of print and can be found cheap in its own package and is now a part of the larger “Batman: Ego” collection, along with some other things of varying quality.

    I agree about getting comics. I go to the comics store and looking at the shelves of new things… Some of which I’m sure I’d like… and getting a massive headache, so I end up leaving empty handed or with a trade collection of something from the ’70s.

15. cinebeats says; December 17, 2008 @ 3:55 pm

    Also well worth a look is Charles DA COSTA’s Blog where he posts terrific illustrations of lots of great actors including Alain Delon, John-Paul Belmondo and Diana Rigg.

16. Bill says; December 23, 2008 @ 6:37 pm

    All great stuff. I set the vertigo illustration as my desktop. Hope you post some more stuff like this as your choice of images is excellent.

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