Amanda Conner is more of a recent discovery of mine (don’t miss her Supergirl in Wednesday Comics!), and although she’s better known for her Power Girl art, her Catwoman is the cat’s meow:
Category: Books & Comics
Catwoman by Darwyn Cooke
You might remember back in January I did a series of blogs featuring the FF’s Sue Storm (AKA Invisible Woman) as interpreted by different artists.
Well, I’m going to do something similar for June, except we’re moving from good girl to no-so-good girl, and from Marvel to DC to feature another personal favorite, Catwoman.
Today’s art is from Darwyn Cooke:
It was hard to pick just one, so here’s a few extra:
My goodness! I’d give an awful lot to be able to draw like Cooke. WOW!
Make sure you come back next Thursday for more Catwoman! PRRRR!
Art Fair Wares
So last weekend I participated in my very first art fair, and despite unbelievable poor weather I actually did quite well. Of course the entire enterprise is a work in progress, but I thought I’d share what I’m actually selling.
Below is what my framed originals look like. They’re in a 11 x 14 black all wood frame with an 8×10 mat under some really nice plexiglass.
My prints are pretty similar except there’s no frame, they’re 8 x 10 with a 5×7 mat, and, of course, they’re signed reproductions.
I’m also selling some new books that aren’t yet up at the site:
As soon as they’re available online I’ll letcha know.
Anyway, I’ll be posting more about the traveling Andertoons Tent O’ Fun soon. Stay tuned!
2011 Schaumburg Prairie Arts Festival
So yesterday was the big day I’ve been working toward for pretty much the last year. My very first art show!
It started out pretty well. I got the truck all packed up:
And I got the tent set up correctly, although I forgot the optional rear door:
The sky was threatening and I heard some far off thunder, but I was finally set up and ready:
Here’s a closer look inside:
We had a some decent rain the first day, but nothing the tent, the attendees and myself couldn’t handle.
Then came Sunday:
See that big yellow/orange blob in the middle? Yep, that’s Sunday’s weather.
I managed to get one sale in before the skies opened up, then opened wider. Then there was some apparent rip in the fabric of reality which seemed to anger a few different gods as Schaumburg channeled that rain planet from that Star Wars prequel.
I stuck it out for a good five hours until reports of pending insane winds. I imagined myself and my wares being blown into the lake while being struck by lighting, then I tore everything down as quickly as possible.
It took me about an hour, and I meant to get a picture of myself as a drowned rat after driving home through the flooding streets, but I was sorry enough a specimen that even my sense of humor has been soaked through.
Still, I made some decent money considering how little serviceable weather we actually had for the weekend, and I not only got through my first show, but survived what even many of the regular battle-hardened art fair crowd called the worst weather they’d seen in years.
Whew!
Lynda Carter
I seriously doubt there’ll ever be a better Wonder Woman than Lynda Carter, and if you needed more proof:
