http://justsayah.com
The official website of comic book artist, Adam Hughes. These are some sites I visit on occasion. I hope these links work. If they don't, odds are, it's on my end, since I really don't know what I'm doing--website building-wise. If a site looks interesting and the link doesn't work, type it or paste it in your address bar.
I try to keep up with those who should be linked here, but, when I'm busy, it's often the first thing I forget. Feel free to e-mail if I've promised a link, or if you just want to suggest a link.
www.myspace.com/mlpetersartist -- Yeah, like everyone else, I'm on myspace.
www.comicspace.com/mlpeters ...And on comicspace
http://www.artbistro.com ...And on this new-ish (to me, anyway) art-focused social networking site.
http://comicartcommissions.com/ A comic art commissions site I'm on there, as are many other artists.
www.heavymetal.com or www.metaltv.com I don't know why there are two different url's, but the one will lead to the other. This is the site for the famous illustrated fantasy magazine. Through the years, they've published a lot of great stuff; Jeff Jones' I'mAge, Bernie Wrightson's Captain Stearn and Freak Show , Jim Steranko's adaptation of the movie Outland (a masterful comics adaptation of a slightly better than average movie) a whole lot of stuff by Richard Corben, Simon Bisley, and ...oh yeah, a few stories by me.
www.rehtwogunraconteur.com/ A fan magazine devoted to the work and life of writer Robert E. Howard (1906-1936), creator of Conan, Kull, Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn and many other characters. I have a 4 piece portfolio, illustrating the Conan tale, "Shadows in Zamboula" in the June 8th, 2006 issue.
www.barrywindsor-smith.com The official website of Barry Windsor-Smith. Barry was the original artist on the Conan the Barbarian comic book. His comics credits include issues of The Uncanny X-Men, Daredevil, The Avengers, Dr. Strange (in Marvel Premier), Machine Man, Archer and Armstrong, Eternal Warrior, Rune, and Barry Windsor-Smith: Storyteller. He's also a fine artist, creating many paintings and drawings, many of which, along with a sampling of his comics work and a sort-of biography, you can find in his recent Opus books. Young Gods and Friends is his latest publication.
Barry's work has had the greatest influence on my own, both directly and indirectly--it's from an interview he did, that I first learned of the Pre-Raphaelites and Alphonse Mucha.
There was a yahoo group devoted to BWS, but it disappeared.
www.berniewrightson.com Bernie Wrightson is well known as a comic book and horror artist. He co-created (with writer Len Wein ) The Swamp Thing. His work appeared in a number of DC Comics horror and Mystery comics, The Weird, Batman vs. Aliens, stories in Warren magazines, like Eerie and Creepy, Heavy Metal Magazine, and a couple of Marvel Comics graphic novels. He's created a number of art prints, illustrated several books by Stephan King and others. Possibly his most critically acclaimed work was his illustrations for Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. A large book called, A Look Back, collects a lot of his work. Bernie also does design work for movies, such as Ghostbusters, and The Faculty.
Bernie's influence on my work, is second only to Barry Windsor-Smith. Like Barry, Bernie's own influences have influenced me too, especially Franklin Booth, who's work inspired the line work Bernie used on Frankenstein.
Bernie Wrightson Yahoo group -- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/berniewrightson
www.kaluta.com Michael William Kaluta first became known for his work in the early 1970's on The Shadow comic book, but left comics to produce a number of symbolist and fantasy art prints. From time to time Kaluta has returned to comics, drawing StarStruck, returning to The Shadow for a graphic novel and the more comics. His recent comics work has been a great number of covers for many titles, most prominently Books of Magic. Mike Kaluta has also done a considerable amount of design work for movies and television. His eye for interesting composition and design is second to none.
Mike Kaluta's yahoo group -- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Kaluta Mike sometimes participates.
www.ulster.net/~jonesart Jeffery Jones also has worked in comics, drawing Idyll for National Lampoon, I'mAge for Heavy Metal, as well as drawing stories for DC Comics and Warren. He's most famous for his paintings, both fine art and covers for novels. Many of his paintings are available as fine art prints.
These four artist, Barry Windsor-Smith, Bernie Wrightson, Mike Kaluta and Jeff Jones shared studio space for a period in the late 1970's. A collection of their work was published in a book--The Studio. It's hard to find, but worth tracking down.
www.nealadams.com Website of comics great Neal Adams, famous for rejuvenating such characters as The Batman, Green Lantern, Green Arrow and The X-Men during comics "Silver Age" (mid 1960's -70's). As well as drawing ground-breaking stories Neal fought for creators rights within the comics industry. Neal Adams, as head of Continuity Studios also has a distinguished career in advertising and design.
www.greenmanpress.com Charles Vess's site. Charles has also worked in comics and fantasy art. He's drawn stories and graphic novels for Marvel Comics, drawn The Sandman, Stardust (the original DC/ Vertigo illustrated version, not the later novel version) and an issue of the original mini-series Books of Magic, as well as many covers for the regular series for DC/Vertigo. He illustrated Shakespeare's A Mid-Summer Night's Dream, in 1988. He self-published a comic book series, The Book of Ballads and Sagas, adapting Scottish, Irish and English traditional ballads into comic book form. His work appears as covers on several fantasy novels, and many of his paintings and drawings are available as prints.
www.lurid.com/pcr P. Craig Russell's official website. P. Craig Russell has drawn comics for Marvel, most notably Killraven and Doctor Strange, The Sandman for DC, and a whole bunch of opera adaptations for Star*Reach, Eclipse, and Dark Horse. Yes, you read right, "Opera". Not being an opera fan, I don't get it -- by "get it", I mean understand. I buy Craig's opera stuff -- the visual storytelling and drawing ability is amazing. He actually visually captures the feel of music. But why opera? Excepting Craig's comics adaptations, the closest to opera I get is watching an Bugs Bunny cartoons (Elmer Fudd singing "Kiw d' wabbit", or 'kill the rabbit", for those that don't speak Fudd, to the tune of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyrie). Of course "The Ring of the Nibelung" probably makes a more coherent comic than say, "The White Album" ("The Beatles").
www.michaelzulli.com Michael Zulli's new website. Michael Zulli creates artwork in a Symbolist vein, with elements of the Pre-Raphaelites and Impressionism. He is a fine artist who happens to draw a few comics now and then -- including Puma Blues, The Sandman (the issue " Men of Good Fortune" and the four issue story-arc "The Wake"), Witchcraft and it's sequel Witchcraft: Le Terreur, Seekers into the Mystery, and several others I'm forgetting right now because my comics collection isn't close at hand. Well worth a look.
http://members.aol.com/QHoover/index.html The web site of fantasy artist Quinton Hoover, best known from his artwork for the card game Magic : The Gathering. Check out his site, even if, like me, you never got into the card game. It's good stuff, ranging from comics themed material to fantasy and Art Nouveau.
http://schismcomics.com Website of Mike Pascale, creator of Bru-Hed and Nasti. Mike's one of the most decent folks in comics.
http://justsayah.com
The official website of comic book artist, Adam Hughes.
www.coppervaleinternational.com Home of James Owen, comic book creator, illustrator, prose writer, publisher of Argosy Quarterly, International Studio and various works of his own. His best known comics creation is Starchild -- highly recommended.
www.waldenwong. com Website of inker Walden Wong. Walden's worked for pretty much every major comic book company.
http://www.gallery-worldwide.com An online fine art gallery, selling original art. I haven't sold through them yet, but they seem legit and have linked to me. Worth a look.
http://twomorrows.com Publishers of great books and magazines about comics, including The Jack Kirby Collector, Back Issue, Alter Ego, Draw!, and much more.
www.comicartcommunity.com Auctions (no I'm not plugging it because I have anything to sell there yet, but maybe soon), Message Boards, Gallery, and Links.
www.dragonberry.com Comics Art Links Directory
This site links to a whole bunch of artist's site, art sellers, and online galleries. Definitely worth a look for comics fans. Highly recommended.
For the latest in comics news, and a multitude of resources, forums, etc -- highly recommended.
An interesting site. A sort of virtual comic book convention. They also have message boards on comics and a variety of other subjects.
www.comicartcommunity.com Comic book art for sale, comic book art galleries, message boards --highly recommended.
www.artmagick.com An art site, with a focus on the Pre-Raphaelites, symbolists, art nouveau, and other romantic, late 19th and early 20th century artists. If there's a better site for any of this kind of art, I haven't found it. Now if I could only find a good site on classic Illustrators...
Unfortunately, this site isn't what it used to be, probably the costs of maintaining such a huge hi-resolution collection of art became too much. The site had dwindled down to little more than an art links site, but recently began to grow and add artwork and other features. I hope it does well.
www.fineart.sk/index.php?cat=1 I don' really know much about this site, but they have out of print art books by Andrew Loomis online --whole books scanned in. My second hand copies had missing pages, so this was a good way to fix that. It appears to be free. I wonder about the copyrights, but since these books are long out of print, and are invaluable to artists...
There are a lot more cool sites I haven't had time to visit, or that don't need me telling you about them. I'll update this page from time to time. If anyone on this links page doesn't want to be here, just e-mail me. If anyone would like their site linked here, they can do the same.
www.gallery-worldwide.com Art
Gallery Worldwide. Artwork in different styles and media. Website offers a
wide variety of
features and services that enable customers and artists to buy and sell art.
They asked me for a reciprocal link, and they seem to be on the level, so, here
they are.
If any links don't work, or if the places they go to appear dubious, let
me know and I'll try to fix the link or remove it.
Contact me -- or at "mlpetersartist (at) yahoo (dot)com" (lately, some mail has been getting caught in my ISP's spam filter).
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