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| Online Art Board Supplies Comic art for the major US companies such as Marvel or DC is drawn on special art board that includes 'blue line' indicators so the artists draw to the correct size proprotional to the final US comic book art size. Artists contracted to the companies are provided with this board, although I am not sure if this is still supplied gratis, as it was in Paul Neary's day as Editorial Director at Marvel UK, or if they have to pay for it. Page measurements apparently vary slightly from company to company, so using ordinary Bristol board and a ruler may be a better option for the aspiring artist than seeking down this specialised board. 2000AD is now published pro to US comic book size. BlueLine There is a type of Bristol board called BlueLine which features these the official comic page measurments printed on it. It's solicited through Previews and, therefore, most comic shops should be able to order it. Some artists don't like it. Bristol Board • Most art supply shops in Belfast sell Bristol board in A3 20 sheet blocks. Art Supplies • Great Art Supplies Gerstaecker UK Limited / Great Art, Normandy House, 1 Nether Street, Alton, Hampshire GU34 1EA Telephone Order line 0845 601 5772 (Local call rate) Described as Europe's largest and brightest catalogue for art materials, this company says "Whatever your angle - whether you're an art student, leisure painter, art teacher or professional artist - we're sure that you'll find that we are full of all the supplies you need." They publish a variety of catalogues for each country -- one artist I know orders material from their French rather than UK edition. • London Graphics Company 16-18 Shelton Street, Covent Garden London WC2H 9JL Tel: 020 7759 4500 Fax: 020 7759 4585 London Graphic Centre was established in 1973 as a specialist graphic materials supplier to the London Design and Advertising market. Dip Pens • Hans Presto This Swedish (with English translation) site apparently stocks and sells just about every dip pen ever made. It also has sections on Lettering, Comics and Handwriting. (thanks to artist Kev Hopgood for this one) |
NEW BRITISH COMICS COLLECTIONS AVAIALBLE NOW... This is the first Dan Dare collection I've edited for Titan Books, comprising work by Frank Hampson, Frank Bellamy and Don Harley.
Superb World War 1 strip first published in Battle and another collection edited by me for Titan
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Calvin Innes
Official:
www.calvininnes.com
Blog: www.calvininnes.com/blog
British artist and creator of the fortnightly web
comic The League of Really Bad Superheroes. Freelance illustrator,
designer, cartoonist, artist and animator, Calvin is also a published
children's author, with books available in the UK, USA and across the
internet. He's been drawing and painting for as long as he can remember,
and now splits his time between freelance illustration, running his
animation studio, My
Little Big Town, and running his web and graphic
design studio (GizMedia).
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D'Israeli
Official: homepage.ntlworld.com/lynnfo
Official Blog: disraeli-demon.blogspot.com/
Actually comics writer, artist
and illustrator Matt Brooker. He has obver 12 years
experience as an illustrator, comic artist and writer
working for with clients as diverse as DC Comics, HarperCollins,
2000AD
and the BBC.
His official web site has a very
useful guide to colouring comics on computer,
considered recommended reading!
Jenika Ioffreda
Official web site: www.neptunefactory.com
London-based Jenika's work includes Checkmate:
Infinite Technology and Vampire
Free Style (which features a cat that can speak
with stars and a witch learning to fly).
Frazer Irving
Official web site: www.frazerirving.com
Award winning Britihs artist and illustrator
for Marvel, DC Comics and 2000AD (among
many others)
Raised on a diet of comics and Gene Pitney tunes Frazer survived
a comprehensive school education in Essex and moved onto a degree course
at Portsmouth university where he got a "Desmond", and then spent
five years in poverty working for peanuts as a security guard at the Royal
Academy and also selling sex toys via mail order before getting a lucky
break drawing comics for 2000AD.
Since then he has drawn for all the big shots in comics and travelled the
world via comicons where "I have met and mated with the most awesome people
on the planet." Frazer also plays in a band called the Atom Heart Brothers.
• Read a 2007 interview with Frazer Irving on Comic
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