Thursday, December 16, 2010

Ron Garney

Comic book artist known for his work on titles such as Justice League of America, Silver Surfer, Captain America, and more recently, Wolverine: Weapon X. he was also the costume illustrator for the movies I Am Legend and The Sorcerers Apprentice.

Steve Mcniven

Steve is a Canadian comic book artist. the title that got him into the lime light was Meridian. but is now known for his work on Marvel's Civil War, Ultimate Secret and New Avengers.

Mark Bagley

Mark is an american comic book artist born in Germany. his talent was discovered through the Marvel Try-out Contest, which he won first place for penciling. since then he has worked on such titles as New Warriors, The Amazing Spider-man, and Ultimate Spider-man.

Frank Miller

Frank is both a comic book artist and writer. He is known for his books Sin City, 300, The Dark Knight Returns, and his work on the Daredevil series.

Jim Lee

Jim is a Korean-American comic book artist and another of the founders of Image Comics. Jim is in the guinness book of world records for X-men #1, a 1991 spin off series that holds the record for the best selling comic book of all time.

David Finch

David is an american comic book artist known for his work in Top Cow Productions. He has done work for Marvel and DC as well including books like Ultimatum, and Brightest Day.

Todd McFarlane

Todd is an american comic book artist and designer. He is Known for the creation of his character Spawn, and has done a lot of work on amazing spider-man as well. Many classic spidey poses can be credited to him. He is also one of the 8 founders of Image Comics.

Mike Deodato

Comic book artist born in Brazil. Made famous by his work on a photorealistic comic adaption of the tv series Beauty and the Beast. he has worked on comics like Wonder Woman, The Amazing Spider-man, and Dark Avengers. Currently he is doing art for the ongoing series, Secret Avengers.

Dave McKean

Dave is an illustrator, photographer, designer, and comic book artist from England. He has designed the book cover for Coraline, and has even worked with such Comic book writers as Grant Morrison.

John Romita Jr.

American comic book artist. His father was also a famous comic book artist pioneer. JR JR is best known for his work with marvel comics. More recently, he teamed up with Mark Millar to draw Kick Ass.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

ABOVE

ABOVE is started of writing graffiti in California, and after studying in Paris, returned with a new technique. now, ABOVE hangs arrows with his name and other things written on them on cables around the city much like we see shoes tossed over and electrical or telephone line.

Buff Monster

Buff Monster is actually a character of the L.A. graffiti artist Random, but has grown to be super famous. Each incarnation of the monster may look a little different but each has the same focus: the buff.

NIck Walker

English graffiti artist who worked around bristol, but now sticks to canvases. he uses a combination of freehand and stencils in his pieces. He has also designed graffiti for films such as Judge Dredd and Eye's Wide Shut.

Pisa 73

German street artist who also works as a designer. often uses stencils, stickers, and posters in his work that exhibits an experience or fear.

Swoon

Swoon is a female street artist from NYC who is most famous for her paper cut-outs and life size wheatpaste posters of people. Many of the models she uses are her close friends and family performing everyday tasks.

London Police

The London Police is a group of a couple people who began their work in Amsterdam but who's goal was to make art as they traveled the world. Since then their iconic character has popped up everywhere around the world.

Flying Fortress

Flying Fortress is started out as a graffiti writer but wanted to use a logo that more people would see on more of a global scale, so he chose a soldier. as he continued to put his soldiers up around munich and other cities around the world his army grew and it continues to do so.

Os Gemeos

Os Gemeos are twins living in Sao Paulo. These two are pioneers of brazilian street art and are mainly known for their characters that can be seen in giant murals all around the world. Gemeos means twins in portuguese.

blek le rat

A street artist very similar to Banksy, Blek le rat is from Paris and mainly uses stencils in his work. The second half of his name, "le rat" comes from his earliest stencils, which were of rats.

Miss Van

Miss Van is female street artist known for her female characters which are very similar to those of Fafi. She currently lives in Toulouse, France.

Miss 17

Miss 17 is one of the more famous female graffiti writers. she is from New York and has traveled the world putting her pieces up.

Revok

Revok is a writer from Los Angeles and is a member of the seventh letter crew. his pieces are very intricate and include many colors.

Ewok

Ewok is one of my personal favorite graff artists. He is an influencial, Jersey-born writer, but lived most of his life in New York. He is known for his crazy letter styles and bright colors.

Seen

Seen is another one of graffiti's pioneers from New York. his pieces could be seen all over the subways during the 70s. involvment in the Style Wars documentary shot him into graff fame and he began to write all over the world and inspire other artists.

Great and Bates

two graffiti artists from Copenhagen that are easily some of the most influential artists in Europe. Each also does their own solo works but together, the two are known for their amazing and vibrant murals.