Here's three great pieces of Star Wars inspired Geek art from artist Frank Stockton. These were done a couple of years ago, but I haven't posted the first two pieces before, so here you go!
This is what the artist had to say about the image above:
Between Esb and Rotj, Luke withdrew to his former Master Obi-Wan's hut in Tattoine to complete his Jedi training in solitude. For this piece, I chose to illustrate the moment of him completing the construction of the light saber he would eventually use to defeat Darth Vader and rescue his father with.
While listening to the Star Wars Radio Dramas, I was struck by what is perhaps the most intense scene in A New Hope; Darth Vader's interrogation of Princess Leia Organa. The scene, which explicitely conveys the sick and twisted evil that had overtaken Anakin by that point, foreshadows some of the...
This is what the artist had to say about the image above:
Between Esb and Rotj, Luke withdrew to his former Master Obi-Wan's hut in Tattoine to complete his Jedi training in solitude. For this piece, I chose to illustrate the moment of him completing the construction of the light saber he would eventually use to defeat Darth Vader and rescue his father with.
While listening to the Star Wars Radio Dramas, I was struck by what is perhaps the most intense scene in A New Hope; Darth Vader's interrogation of Princess Leia Organa. The scene, which explicitely conveys the sick and twisted evil that had overtaken Anakin by that point, foreshadows some of the...
- 6/2/2012
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
2:40: And that’s the way to end the show! Enjoy the after parties, everybody!
2:35: Best Graphic Album-New: Tie! Return of the Dapper Men, by Jim McCann and Janet Lee (Archaia); Wilson, by Daniel Clowes (Drawn & Quarterly)
2:31: Best Graphic Album-Reprint: Wednesday Comics, edited by Mark Chiarello (DC)
2:28: Best Adaptation from Another Work: The Marvelous Land of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, adapted by Eric Shanower and Skottie Young (Marvel)
2:18: Best Continuing Series: Chew, by John Layman and Rob Guillory (Image)
2:13: Best Limited Series: Daytripper, by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá (Vertigo/DC)
2:11: That King fella on American Vampire has talent. Of course, he’s no Joe Hill…
2:08: Best New Series: American Vampire, by Scott Snyder, Stephen King, and Rafael Albuquerque (Vertigo/DC)
2:06: Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award: Nate Simpson for...
2:35: Best Graphic Album-New: Tie! Return of the Dapper Men, by Jim McCann and Janet Lee (Archaia); Wilson, by Daniel Clowes (Drawn & Quarterly)
2:31: Best Graphic Album-Reprint: Wednesday Comics, edited by Mark Chiarello (DC)
2:28: Best Adaptation from Another Work: The Marvelous Land of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, adapted by Eric Shanower and Skottie Young (Marvel)
2:18: Best Continuing Series: Chew, by John Layman and Rob Guillory (Image)
2:13: Best Limited Series: Daytripper, by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá (Vertigo/DC)
2:11: That King fella on American Vampire has talent. Of course, he’s no Joe Hill…
2:08: Best New Series: American Vampire, by Scott Snyder, Stephen King, and Rafael Albuquerque (Vertigo/DC)
2:06: Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award: Nate Simpson for...
- 7/23/2011
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
The nominations for the Eisner Awards were announced yesterday at Wondercon, and publisher DC Comics cleaned house recieving 14 nominations — the most of any publisher. Here is the complete list of nominations. If you’ve been away from comics for a while, or want to try a new addiction, then these are (some of) the best of the best out there right now:
Best Short Story
“Bart on the Fourth of July,” by Peter Kuper, in Bart Simpson #54 (Bongo) “Batman, in Trick for the Scarecrow,” by Billy Tucci, in Dcu Halloween Special 2010 (DC) “Cinderella,” by Nick Spencer and Rodin Esquejo, in Fractured Fables(Silverline Books/Image) “Hamburgers for One,” by Frank Stockton, in Popgun vol. 4 (Image) “Little Red Riding Hood,” by Bryan Talbot and Camilla d’Errico, inFractured Fables (Silverline Books/Image) “Post Mortem,” by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark, in I Am an Avenger#2 (Marvel)
Best Single Issue (or One-Shot)
The Cape,...
Best Short Story
“Bart on the Fourth of July,” by Peter Kuper, in Bart Simpson #54 (Bongo) “Batman, in Trick for the Scarecrow,” by Billy Tucci, in Dcu Halloween Special 2010 (DC) “Cinderella,” by Nick Spencer and Rodin Esquejo, in Fractured Fables(Silverline Books/Image) “Hamburgers for One,” by Frank Stockton, in Popgun vol. 4 (Image) “Little Red Riding Hood,” by Bryan Talbot and Camilla d’Errico, inFractured Fables (Silverline Books/Image) “Post Mortem,” by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark, in I Am an Avenger#2 (Marvel)
Best Single Issue (or One-Shot)
The Cape,...
- 4/8/2011
- by Brandon Johnston
- ScifiMafia
The 2011 Eisner Award nominations have just been announced.
Heading the 2011 nominees with five nominations is Return of the Dapper Men, a fantasy hardcover by writer Jim McCann and artist Janet Lee and published by Archaia, with nominations for Best Publication for Teens, Best Graphic Album–New, Best Writer, Best Artist, and Best Publication Design. Two comics series have four nominations: Morning Glories by Nick Spencer and Joe Eisma (published by Shadowline/Image) and Locke & Key by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez (published by Idw). A variety of titles have received three nominations, including the manga Wilson (Drawn & Quarterly), and Mike Mignola’s Hellboy titles (Dark Horse).
The creator with the most nominations is Mignola with five (including cover artist), followed by Spencer and Hill, each with four. Several creators received three nominations: McCann & Lee, Rodriquez, Urasawa, and Clowes, plus writer Ian Boothy (for Comic Book Guy: The Comic Book and...
Heading the 2011 nominees with five nominations is Return of the Dapper Men, a fantasy hardcover by writer Jim McCann and artist Janet Lee and published by Archaia, with nominations for Best Publication for Teens, Best Graphic Album–New, Best Writer, Best Artist, and Best Publication Design. Two comics series have four nominations: Morning Glories by Nick Spencer and Joe Eisma (published by Shadowline/Image) and Locke & Key by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez (published by Idw). A variety of titles have received three nominations, including the manga Wilson (Drawn & Quarterly), and Mike Mignola’s Hellboy titles (Dark Horse).
The creator with the most nominations is Mignola with five (including cover artist), followed by Spencer and Hill, each with four. Several creators received three nominations: McCann & Lee, Rodriquez, Urasawa, and Clowes, plus writer Ian Boothy (for Comic Book Guy: The Comic Book and...
- 4/8/2011
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
Nominations for the coveted Eisner Awards were announced Thursday, and in the big category of Best Continuing Series, newcomer Morning Glories got one of the nominations as did Jason Aaron’s long running series, Scalped and two soon-to-be TV series Locke & Key and Chew. Morning Glories writer Nick Spencer got his first Eisner Nomination for Best Writer and Morning Glories got multiple nominations. Other books getting multiple noms were Chew by John Layman and Rob Guillory, Return of the Dapper Men by Jim McCann and Janet Lee, Terry Moore’s Echo, Daryn Cooke’s The Outfit, and again, Locke & Key by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez.
Often described as the Oscars of the comics industry, the winners will be announced at Comic-Con International in San Diego this July. Please use the following list of nominated books as an essential great guide for some of the very best comics published in...
Often described as the Oscars of the comics industry, the winners will be announced at Comic-Con International in San Diego this July. Please use the following list of nominated books as an essential great guide for some of the very best comics published in...
- 4/8/2011
- by Ernie Estrella
- BuzzFocus.com
If you're not familiar with The Lady, or the Tiger? by Frank R. Stockton, take a minute to read that link and come back. Sucker Punch is Zack Snyder's answer to that question after he Od'd on 'shrooms and spent a night watching Moulin Rouge, Charlie's Angels and Inception, then fell asleep to Heavy Metal. The result is a mishmash of great ideas that doesn't know where it's going. With just a little more follow-through, it could have been a hit instead of the critical flop it will ultimately be remembered as.
Emily Browning, best known for her role in Lemony Snicket, plays Baby Doll, a girl attacked by her greedy stepfather after the death of her mother in hopes of securing her fortune. Instead of fleeing, she defends herself and her sister from the evil man, but a stray bullet kills the sister and the stepfather puts Baby Doll away,...
Emily Browning, best known for her role in Lemony Snicket, plays Baby Doll, a girl attacked by her greedy stepfather after the death of her mother in hopes of securing her fortune. Instead of fleeing, she defends herself and her sister from the evil man, but a stray bullet kills the sister and the stepfather puts Baby Doll away,...
- 3/26/2011
- by Mike Saulters
- Slackerwood
Composer of a string of Broadway musicals, he was best known for Fiddler On the Roof
Days after speaking at a memorial service for his Fiddler On the Roof collaborator Joseph Stein, the composer Jerry Bock has died, aged 81. With Stein and the lyricist Sheldon Harnick, Bock wrote some of the most loved and admired Broadway songs of the last century. Fiddler On the Roof, set in Tsarist Russia and starring Zero Mostel as Tevye the milkman, opened on Broadway in 1964 and broke all box-office records, running for more than 3,200 performances.
The show made Bock world-famous for his lilting, instantly familiar Jewish melodies and catchy rhythms. There was consummate artistry in the way he could set to music even so banal an exchange as "Do you love me?" "Do I what?" "Do you love me?" "Do I love you...?" with its tender, affirmative swerve in the last phrase.
Between 1956 and...
Days after speaking at a memorial service for his Fiddler On the Roof collaborator Joseph Stein, the composer Jerry Bock has died, aged 81. With Stein and the lyricist Sheldon Harnick, Bock wrote some of the most loved and admired Broadway songs of the last century. Fiddler On the Roof, set in Tsarist Russia and starring Zero Mostel as Tevye the milkman, opened on Broadway in 1964 and broke all box-office records, running for more than 3,200 performances.
The show made Bock world-famous for his lilting, instantly familiar Jewish melodies and catchy rhythms. There was consummate artistry in the way he could set to music even so banal an exchange as "Do you love me?" "Do I what?" "Do you love me?" "Do I love you...?" with its tender, affirmative swerve in the last phrase.
Between 1956 and...
- 11/4/2010
- by Michael Coveney
- The Guardian - Film News
Mondo Tees has unveiled their latest officially licensed Star Wars poster called Luke's Destiny created by Frank Stockton. This has been such a cool Star Wars poster series, and I can't wait to see what else is going to be released.
The print above is just so cool, and it was exclusively revealed over at Ugo, the man behind Mondo Tees, Ishmael, reveals his ten favorite Mondo prints of all time in the article over at the site.
The print above will go up for sale on Thursday October 28th. Follow @MondoNews on Twitter to find out what time it will go on sale.
Here’s what Ishmael had to say about the Luke's Destiny poster.
We’ve never used Stockton before and always with someone new you’re wondering, ‘is this going to work?” But we saw the first sketch and we knew.
I love that this is the...
The print above is just so cool, and it was exclusively revealed over at Ugo, the man behind Mondo Tees, Ishmael, reveals his ten favorite Mondo prints of all time in the article over at the site.
The print above will go up for sale on Thursday October 28th. Follow @MondoNews on Twitter to find out what time it will go on sale.
Here’s what Ishmael had to say about the Luke's Destiny poster.
We’ve never used Stockton before and always with someone new you’re wondering, ‘is this going to work?” But we saw the first sketch and we knew.
I love that this is the...
- 10/27/2010
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Inside the Internet's first financial-news network -- a mashup of CNBC, the Bloomberg terminal, and the real-time Web.
There's an old saying on Wall Street: When you have something good, you're not going to share it. "But you can't develop good ideas without collaboration," counters Howard Lindzon, CEO and cofounder of StockTwits, referring to the traders who use his social stock-picking site. "From 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., we're all in the trenches together." Lindzon's 17-person team has spent more than a year building the Web's most comprehensive -- and accessible -- virtual trading floor, letting users share ideas and data in real time without paying or registering (premium services deliver most of StockTwits' revenue). The site, which attracts 300,000-plus unique visitors a month, has expanded to include its own news feed, user-generated charts, and Web TV channel. Here's how it works.
1. Virtual Traders
Every day, the platform receives roughly 12,000 postings,...
There's an old saying on Wall Street: When you have something good, you're not going to share it. "But you can't develop good ideas without collaboration," counters Howard Lindzon, CEO and cofounder of StockTwits, referring to the traders who use his social stock-picking site. "From 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., we're all in the trenches together." Lindzon's 17-person team has spent more than a year building the Web's most comprehensive -- and accessible -- virtual trading floor, letting users share ideas and data in real time without paying or registering (premium services deliver most of StockTwits' revenue). The site, which attracts 300,000-plus unique visitors a month, has expanded to include its own news feed, user-generated charts, and Web TV channel. Here's how it works.
1. Virtual Traders
Every day, the platform receives roughly 12,000 postings,...
- 6/9/2010
- by Dan Macsai
- Fast Company
Image Comics is to release a fourth instalment of its anthology book Popgun. According to Cbr, the next volume of the compilation comic will arrive in February, packed with contributions from several high-profile creators. Featuring a cover illustration from Choker artist Ben Templesmith, the book contains contributions from Frank Stockton, Andy Ristiano and Jeffrey Brown. Popgun veterans and creative duo Amanda Becker and Janet Kim will also return to the anthology. "We wanted to make [the fourth Popgun instalment] even more eclectic (more)...
- 12/30/2009
- by By Mark Langshaw
- Digital Spy
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