The Artful Collector: The Art of Collecting
When asked to explain why I chose “The Artful Collector” as my byline, and what I mean by that play on words, I always respond “because there’s an “art” to collecting, whether it’s Art that […]
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Sword & Sorcery – What’s In A Name?
Sword & Sorcery has become a term of derision since the 1980s. There are good reasons for this but much of that derision is out of ignorance. The barbarian baby has been thrown out with […]
WELCOME TO 2017, and 2016’s LIST OF COLUMNS
As he has done for the past several years, Steve looks back (without anger) at the previous year’s columns, and hopes you found reading them worthwhile. And now: To Infinity—And Beyond! as someone once said!
The Retro Look and Stranger Things
Designer M. D. Jackson defends the visual style of the Netflix series Stranger Things, saying that its retro 80s look is a deliberate homage.
Computer Generated Images and the Eye of the Beholder Part 4
M. D. Jackson’s final installment on the history of visual effects in cinema takes us from the CGI revolution of Jurassic Park to the present.
Computer Generated Images and the Eye of the Beholder: Part 3
In the third part of his history of computer generated imagery, M. D. Jackson takes us from The Last Starfighter to Terminator 2, with a side trip to the Italian renaissance.
Computer Generated Images and the Eye of the Beholder: Part 2
The first use of a computer assisted visual element in a major motion picture happened in 1973 with the movie Westworld.
Computer Generated Images and the Eye of the Beholder: Part 1
In the dance of the ever-improving computer image, our own perceptions are a willing partner.
Why Was Early Comic Book Art so Crude? Part 5: The Digital Revolution
Wrapping up the series by talking about a final and really influential technological change, the digital revolution.
Why Was Early Comic Book Art so Crude (Part 4)
The fourth installment of MD Jackson’s comic art history.
Asni’s Art Blog: Space Shuttle
Having a permanent space station in orbit is all well and fine, but how to get people and materials on and off it?
Why Was Early Comic Book Art so Crude? (Part 3)
The flawed heroes and the shared universe weren’t the only revolutions that Stan Lee brought to the business
Why Was Early Comic Book Art so Crude? (Part Two)
Will Eisner was part artist and part businessman. In 1936 at the age of nineteen he and his partner Jerry Iger formed a studio that hired artists to produce comic books
Asni’s Art Blog: International Space Station
It is time I picked up the thread of my series on art inspired by real existing space exploration.
Why was Early Comic Book Art so Crude? (Part 1)
Why was early comic book art so crude? It wasn’t all the artist’s fault….
Invasive Procedures (Not for the Squeamish)
It’s cast iron stomach time as Mr. Jackson related a recent medical adventure to some SF scenes we’d probably like to forget.
Cameo Creeps: Tiny Paintings With Monster Details!
Fascinating collectible miniature monster paintings with amazing detail and bone-chilling appeal! Cameo Creeps are painstakingly detailed miniature monster portraits inspired by Elizabethan paintings of the past. What makes these unique and fascinating is their size. […]
Darwyn Cooke: 1962 – 2016
There are artists, and then there are comic book artists. Purely and simply, Darwyn Cooke was a comic book artist.
Asni’s Art Blog: Star Wars Popularity Contest: Boba Fett
I’ve come across quite a staggering amount of Boba Fett art considering that this is at best a secondary character.
Science Fiction After a Fashion
What will we be wearing in the future? Better hope SF is not accurate with its predictions.
Asni’s Art Blog: Star Wars Popularity Contest: Old Friends
What other trilogy has brought back the original actors, playing the same parts, 40 years on?
I’ve Been Watching Doctor Who for a Long Time
Okay, let me just put this out there. My favorite science fiction TV program is Doctor Who. To most of you that statement probably elicits a shrug of the shoulders and a casual “Meh. […]
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