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Even with a host of new comics coming from Marvel lately, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur sounds like one of the most interesting (and adorable). To find out more, we sat down with writers Brandon Montclare and Amy Reeder to discuss how they and artist Natacha Bustos brought back a classic Jack Kirby creation—with a twist.
Lots of great MG&DD art by Natacha Bustos in the link!
Etsy seller using my art without permission. Contacted them TWICE and reported them to Etsy TWICE, no action taken. I guess you can just sell stolen art now.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/199875744/batman-print-grand-theft-auto-gotham?ref=market
That’s really disappointing - I’ve been a big Etsy fan for some time.
Maybe if others flag/report/etc, they’ll take notice.
Not cool… signal boosting to let people know (also contacting Etsy about this)
Signal boosting this again because the art thief is still selling the stolen art on etsy. Tried reporting on my part, and by re blogging this again I hope other Etsy users will help make similar reports too.
Garb Week!
Nayika and Yaksi, intimate lovers as well as a traveling doublet of deep cover emissaries, utilise their craft as dancers as a front. This is one of the best kept secrets of the temples, and the organisation of warrior-spies has its tendrils in all layers of society. It appears that these young women have encountered a situation in which all bets are off. Time to blow cover and engage. Models: Meghan Ghent, Suna Dasi. Photography: Art Attack Films. Costumes and Accessories: Suna Dasi.
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From my comic PITCH BLACK, which you can see more of here.
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Pimp my ride: the impromptu cardboard edition
Yearning for a souped-up supercar? Perhaps photographer Max Siedentopf can help you out. This guy has been wandering the streets of Amsterdam giving random cars DIY makeovers with the help of cardboard and tape.
That’s right. No need for a trip to the auto dealer — Siedentopf will customise your old Peugot or Volkswagon with tools you can find at the local newsagency.
Recently VICE spent the evening with Max as he pimped out old cars around town, and when asked why he spends his evenings doing this, he answered: ‘Individuality, self-expression and status are more important than ever these days. But for some reason you see that things as ordinary as cars are getting personalised less and less, while it could be a strange but great form of self-expression. I thought I’d do people a favour by giving them a custom-made supercar’.
Amazing woodcarved spoons by Giles Newman. He resides in northern Wales and makes individually designed and hand crafted green wood spoons carved using only traditional hand tools. Find his work on instagram and etsy.
Black Gotham: A Family History of African-Americans in Nineteenth Century New York City
by Carla L. Peterson
“Part detective tale, part social and cultural narrative, Black Gotham is Carla Peterson’s riveting account of her quest to reconstruct the lives of her nineteenth-century ancestors. As she shares their stories and those of their friends, neighbors, and business associates, she illuminates the greater history of African-American elites in New York City.
Black Gotham challenges many of the accepted “truths” about African-American history, including the assumption that the phrase “nineteenth-century black Americans” means enslaved people, that “New York state before the Civil War” refers to a place of freedom, and that a black elite did not exist until the twentieth century. Beginning her story in the 1820s, Peterson focuses on the pupils of the Mulberry Street School, the graduates of which went on to become eminent African-American leaders. She traces their political activities as well as their many achievements in trade, business, and the professions against the backdrop of the expansion of scientific racism, the trauma of the Civil War draft riots, and the rise of Jim Crow.
Told in a vivid, fast-paced style, Black Gotham is an important account of the rarely acknowledged achievements of nineteenth-century African Americans and brings to the forefront a vital yet forgotten part of American history and culture.”
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Inktober 4-7. First one is a Tachikawa School G pen and the rest are with a Zebra G nib and inkwash.
Washed Up: Transforming a Trashed Landscape by Alejandro Durán
Durán on his project:
Washed Up addresses the issue of plastic pollution making its way across the ocean and onto the shores of Sian Ka’an, Mexico’s largest federally-protected reserve. With more than twenty pre-Columbian archaeological sites, this UNESCO World Heritage site is also home to a vast array of flora and fauna and the world’s second largest coastal barrier reef. Unfortunately, Sian Ka’an is also a repository for the world’s trash, which is carried there by ocean currents from many parts of the globe.
Over the course of this project, I have identified plastic waste from fifty nations on six continents that have washed ashore along the coast of Sian Ka'an. I have used this international debris to create color-based, site-specific sculptures. Conflating the hand of man and nature, at times I distribute the objects the way the waves would; at other times, the plastic takes on the shape of algae, roots, rivers, or fruit, reflecting the infiltration of plastics into the natural environment.
More than creating a surreal or fantastical landscape, these installations mirror the reality of our current environmental predicament. The resulting photo series depicts a new form of colonization by consumerism, where even undeveloped land is not safe from the far-reaching impact of our disposable culture. Although inspired by the works of Andy Goldsworthy and Robert Smithson, Washed Up speaks to the environmental concerns of our time and its vast quantity of discarded materials. The alchemy of Washed Up lies not only in converting a trashed landscape, but in the project’s potential to raise awareness and change our relationship to consumption and waste.
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First four #inktober drawings collected!
It’s been a while since I made any comics and I’ve had this idea for a while, so I gave it a shot because I think it’s sort of cute. Elf children. Yay.
Saffran/Esche’tu (cutest elf child), Nénuro (longest hair) and Asegedeche (prettiest scholar) are all mine.
Bosto 22U Mini Review
Not Small Where it Counts
Bosto describes the 22U Mini as a budget conscious Cintiq alternative, but the price and feature set place it closer to the growing mid-tier of Wacom alternatives.
Hardware
The 22U has a 5080 lpi, 2048 pressure-level digitizer and a wireless, rechargeable stylus. The screen is 1920x1080, IPS, and LED backlit with a 72% Adobe RGB color gamut. These features used to be rare in Wacom alternatives, but over the last few years have become more common. I consider these specifications the minimum for Cintiq alternatives and am glad to see the Bosto meeting them.
The 22U’s housing is clean, functional, and surprisingly light. There are no built-in hotkeys. The requisite video and USB connections are present and should accommodate most people’s PCs. The provided stand allows for the unit to sit nearly flat or perfectly vertical and is akin to those found in Yiynova, Huion, and Monoprice’s tablet monitors. A VESA compatible mounting pattern allows for use with third party monitor arms.
The stylus feels good in hand. Some hardware with replaceable batteries feels heavy with long use. Bosto eschewed AAA batteries for an internal, rechargeable solution. The lack of a swappable battery gives the stylus a lighter weight on par with Wacom’s battery free styli.
The replaceable nib sat a bit off center in the stylus. The part of me that wants all things to sit dead center and at ninety degree angles was perturbed, but this was more a problem with aesthetics than functionality.
As a self proclaimed budget product, I was impressed with the build quality of the 22U. It’s not uncommon to run across problems with any digital art hardware—Wacom or otherwise. Dead pixels, light leakage, styli which won’t hold a charge, and dust trapped under the glass are all common issues. The Bosto was solid. I experienced no hardware failures during my testing and the unit was problem free if short on bells and whistles.
Software and Drivers
There’s not much to say about the 22U’s software and drivers. The tablet driver is Windows compatible, not Mac, and offers a very spare feature set. I’ve heard tell of community made drivers for Mac and Windows both, but was not able to test them yet.
The tablet installed easily in Windows 7 and Windows 8 and was compatible with Photoshop and Manga Studio in my testing. Most of my drawing time is spent on Macs and in Linux. The 22U being ostensibly Windows only limited my use a bit, but I can’t hold that against it. It is advertised as such and should only be considered for purchase by Windows users.
I have a mixed studio with near equal numbers of Mac, Windows, and Linux machines and hope the community driven effort to expand compatibility bears fruit. However, don’t count on fan made hacks if you’re not on Windows. It’s always best to assume that support for such third party workarounds is apt to be spotty.
Performance and Place in the Pantheon of Art Hardware
The Bosto 22U Mini’s performance is best summed up as adequate. That’s not a knock against the hardware. Most faux-Wacom tech is terrible.
As all the non-Wacom manufacturers have risen in popularity, the quality of the underlying technology has bettered and, in some ways, converged. Little differentiates Huion from UC-Logic from UGEE from Bosto.
Two areas of continued variance between manufacturers have been the pressure curve and jitter during slow strokes. Some hardware requires strokes that are too hard to achieve full pressure. Some require strokes that are too light. None are just right. Goldilocks wouldn’t find a comfortable bed among the lot of them. Slow strokes task the report rate of the hardware and the interpolation of the driver—its ability to convert slow, jaggy input into smooth, even lines.
Most Wacom styli have terrible beginnings to their pressure curves. When new out of the box they perform better, but, shortly after breaking a stylus in, the first twenty five percent or so of the pressure curve blows by far too quickly. You can mitigate this by using custom pressure input settings and making the first fifty percent of your pressure curve firmer. That’s a bummer. Having spent tens of thousands of dollars on pricey Wacom tech over the last fifteen years, I expect more. Wacom’s app compatibility is top notch and they have the best slow-stroke jitter interpolation. They’re still the best option, but innovation has remained largely stagnant since their Graphire days.
Huion’s latest stylus tech tends to be too soft and quick to achieve full pressure. A light press maxes out their output robbing you of some middle-to-hard end of the pressure curve expression. They suffer from middling jitter problems with slow strokes. Their industrial design is top notch and their drivers have matured greatly over the last two years.
UC-Logic, the digitizer supplier for Yiynova and UGEE, has a stiffer pressure curve that requires more force to achieve full output. It’s stiff, but the UC-Logic tech has maybe the highest fidelity pressure curve in all digital art hardware I’ve tested. Wacom and Huion blow out their pressure curves too quickly and the UC-Logic tech tends to allow for a fuller range of expression. Jitter mitigation is slightly better here than in Huion tech, but is still worse than Wacom’s. Their industrial design tends to leave one wanting. They look and feel slapped together. The exception to this aesthetic black hole is UGEE who seems to be pushing the UC-Logic tech further than Yiynova. They’re relatively unknown and it’s a shame. They’ve made some of my favorite tech to date.
The Bosto 22U Mini uses a different digitizer than their other units according to discussions with their reps. Pressure input was a bit jagged with many tiny peaks and valleys during a single stroke, but that can be solved for in most software that offers a modicum of line correction. Here’s the interesting thing about Bosto’s new 22U. Overall stroke pressure sat somewhere between Wacom and UC-Logic. It was near the middle ground of pressure curves. That’s notable. That’s borderline exciting. Jitter was no worse than on UC-Logic tech but still lagged behind Wacom a bit. But Bosto has my interest. The 22U held its own.
Value
The 22U costs $50 to $100 cheaper than its mid-tier counterparts. If you’re running Windows, don’t mind a spartan set of driver features, and budget is your foremost concern, you could do worse.
I had issues with the digitizer technology in Bosto products prior and was not shy in heaping criticism their way. To their credit, they saw fit to send me this new monitor with a new, different digitizer inside knowing I wouldn’t pull punches. Performance and price are a decent value. I like where their product line is headed and hope they keep building on this momentum.
As is the case with nearly all my Cintiq alternative reviews, the addendum of “not bad for the money” applies in hefty amounts. If you’re simply unable to purchase Wacom hardware, this Bosto, Yiynova’s MVP22U (v3), and Huion’s GT-220 offer compelling options that each have benefits and drawbacks.
The Bosto 22U Mini left me pleasantly surprised. For many, I suspect their purchasing decision will depend on price and compatibility.
Details
Manufacturer
Bosto http://bosto-tablet.com/
Product Link
http://bosto-tablet.com/models/22u_mini/
Price at Time of Review
$649
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This is definitely what they actually looked like :D
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Brad Bird Confirms ‘The Iron Giant: Signature Edition’ Blu-Ray
Today, Warner Bros. confirmed The Iron Giant: Signature Edition Blu-ray release to Cartoon Brew, noting that the studio doesn’t yet have an official date and reminding us that Bird’s remastered masterpiece of war and peace, which includes two new scenes animated by Duncan Studio, will be available digitally in the fall.
