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As Irene and I walked south down Chicago’s Michigan Avenue Saturday, I happened to look to the left at just the right moment to spot the Hulk looking back-because this print by artist Doug Bloodworth was hanging in a gallery window.


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Since I’m always bitching to you when I see fine art interpretations of comics go for big bucks while images by the artists who toiled in the field go for peanuts-as when I complained that a pop artist’s version of Green Lantern sold for 7,723 times more than one by the man who created the character-I owe it to you to share that for once, the ( Read more... )

Steve Thompson, aware of my strong feelings about the paintings of Sharon Moody, alerted me to the comics-inspired art of Vin Vicini. Funny thing is, in spite of what could be seen as superficial similarities, the new images I saw didn’t bother me at all. So let’s take a look at a couple of Vicini’s paintings, and then I’ll explain why.

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I was feeling slightly glum last night about some of the things I wrote about Sharon Moody over the past few weeks, because even though I did write that “I’m not saying Moody isn’t a skillful artist, or that she’s bad person” and reported that her paintings are “a spot-on recreation of the original, showing a high degree of craft,” my bottom line ( Read more... )

I headed to Manhattan Saturday for a visit to the Bernarducci Meisel Gallery so I could see for myself those Sharon Moody paintings which had so ticked me off three weeks ago. Would experiencing the real-world art hung on a gallery wall, as opposed to seeing them diminished into relatively small .jpgs, change the way I felt? Would attempting to ( Read more... )

As I head to New York to see in person the Sharon Moody art exhibition I’ve been going on about ever since this post-I’m hanging out at the Baltimore Amtrak station right now-I realize I’ve never shared the ad that started it all.

So here it is!


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I’ll be heading into Manhattan tomorrow to visit the Bernarducci Meisel Gallery and, I hope, reach some sort of closure as far as those Sharon Moody paintings are concerned. But while in town for the day, a guy’s got to eat, right? And if this guy’s got to eat in Manhattan, it’s going to be at Shopsins as often as possible.

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2011 is over and done with, so I thought I’d look back and see which of my posts were read the most last year.

One thing that’s clear is you’re all as interested in the issues raised by those Sharon Moody paintings of comics books as I am-my initial commentary on the matter was my most-clicked post of the year (almost virally so), and 3 of the top ( Read more... )

Several readers who’ve been following my posts on the paintings of Sharon Moody have pointed me toward a recent New York Times article titled “Apropos Appropriation” by Randy Kennedy. Kennedy, reporting on a lawsuit that arose over appropriation by artist Richard Prince, wrote:

In March a federal district court judge in Manhattan ruled that Mr. ( Read more... )

Some who’ve read my recent posts “A few words in defense of Jack Kirby, Sal Buscema, Irv Novick, and other anonymized artists“, “A few further thoughts on the artwork of Sharon Moody,” “Brian Bolland’s brilliantly blistering rebuttal,” and “Why a comic book isn’t a Hershey’s bar” seem to have gotten the erroneous impression that I’ve have a thing ( Read more... )