Art & the Comic-Con

[beastieangel01]

I love art, and comic book art as well. However, when I went to Comic-con this year and went in to the "Artists Gallery," ALL I saw was drawings and paintings of fairies and dragons.

I think I saw two artists out of 20+ that DIDN'T have fairies and dragons.

I mean, sure, faries and dragons are kind of neat. But freagin hell! I think I lasted about 5 minutes before I started speed walking through the gallery because it was all the same exact crap. And no, it wasn't a theme gallery.

:/

[adam_f]

This reminds me when I watch Conan, I look forward to him to saying 'BEWARE GANDALF!'

[Mr.Right]

Same here...

[beastieangel01]

haha :D

[adam_f]

I seriously used to pretend I had a pet dragon named Bill. He was dark green and could talk in Spanish.

[Abe Froman]

^ That was the mailman :rolleyes:

[Parkey]

I know it's not comic art, but The Wooster Collective (http://www.woostercollective.com/) has shitloads of really great stuff (street art etc.) a lot of which comes from people who used to be involved in graphic novels etc. Have a look!

[ET]

Dude, you need to look at these things more closely. Sometimes the fairies have short hair... sometimes they have long hair! And different wings too. They all kind of have really big tittays though. And don't wear very much clothing. They're all different. I wish I could eat a fairy.

[beastieangel01]

^haha

Parkey, that is a great link! Thanks for that.

I get tired of art like that too. They don't offer much to me and everyone seems to do it. I'd like to take some white-out and start flinging it around and I'm sure I'd be more satisfied.

hahaha, yep. I was so disappointed to walk in to the gallery and just see that. Also, a painting of some regular ol dragon that my 7 year old brother could have made, sold for 400 dollars there. 400! What a crock of $#@! I could have crapped out a better painting and I'm not even all that great at painting. But oh no! It wouldn't have been a dragon :rolleyes:

Lame people will like lame art and buy it, I guess.

Sorry, this just irritates me. If you are going to spend money like that, spend it a GOOD piece of art, dorks! :mad:

[ToucanSpam]

Fairies and dragons are alright. But hey, what about other stuff?



I dont know, I like art where people have swords.

[beastieangel01]

I didn't say anything about other stuff.

[ToucanSpam]

I didn't say anything about other stuff.
I mean like, why isn't there other stuff showcased at this thing? Other than fairies and dragons?


I dont make sense.

[beastieangel01]

There was, but very few.

And it's apparently because the artists aren't really all that creative and cannot come up with other ideas.

[Abe Froman]

Seems like the mid 90s is where comics had a brief explosion with good art and stories and then it died out.

[paul jones]

I rediscovered my old comics by Peter Bagge, Dennis P Wordon and Daniel Clowes last night in a box


I was having a room clean up but I would never throw those out