[Via Sharon Moody/Gizmodo]
Jun 20th 2012 By: Caleb Goellner
Sharon Moody Paints Classic Comics From Another Perspective [Art]
[Via Sharon Moody/Gizmodo]
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Bleeding Cool reported on this 6 months ago. Comics Alliance seems to lag other comics news sites by a few days, but 6 months? Come on.
Also, DC and Marvel should take to calling the reprinting without compensation of Kirby/Ditko/etc's work as a "trompe l'oeil" and then maybe they can get some of the art scene on their side lest said scene reveal their double standard on this subject.
I bet Art Forum scooped Bleeding Cool.
June 21 2012 at 9:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
RM
Honestly, these are amazing. I am blown away.
June 21 2012 at 3:16 AM Report abuse Permalink +2 rate up rate down ReplyI'm just curious as to what Kate Beaton's take is on the subject. Also, I agree, the Kirby, Shuster and Siegel families clearly need reimbursement for this work.
June 20 2012 at 11:55 PM Report abuse Permalink -5 rate up rate down ReplyReimbursement? This is a terrific trompe l'oeil painting of a book. A painting is a unique object, no one is running off copies of comics to sell. Why should Kirby's grandchildren get reimbursement for this?
June 25 2012 at 4:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply@ Mr. Komodo
No but you could very well write about the lord of the rings. How it affected you or as a fiction piece about how the character's lives are changed by it. That would be a more analogous comparison. To imply that Ms. Moody is somehow trying to pass the actual books as her own comics is patently idiotic and very fanboyish. If that is somehow getting your ire, I'm sure you were outright PO'd whenever marvel licensed Kirby artwork without paying him.
oops for my reading comprehesion skills. Sorry Mr. Komodo I thought that you were commenting on the merits of Moody's paintings. My sincerest apology. That said I'm still blinded by rage from the bleeding cool posters who thought this work was somehow illegitimate. It seems to have given me an itchy trigger finger.
June 20 2012 at 10:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWait, are you telling me that those are paintings?
June 20 2012 at 9:18 PM Report abuse Permalink +3 rate up rate down Reply
JRC
a part of the artists statement from her website:
"Recently I have been making paintings based on games, toys and other forms of entertainment that reflect the universal human desire for amusement, diversion, and stimulation. These seem a proper subject for trompe l'oeil paintings, which by their very nature are intended to divert and entrance us with their illusionism and by the questions they raise - in a playful way - about perception and reality."
So cool. I love these paintings. I love what she's doing.
June 21 2012 at 2:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyim the only one who gets a creepy vibe from this paintings?
June 20 2012 at 7:19 PM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down ReplyProbably. I'd like some bigger prints so I can convince myself they actually are paintings.
I don't mean to say CA would lie about that... they're just good enough to convince me they're real.
Cnaught
Damn it, now I want Oreos
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Darklighter
Ce n'est pas une bande dessinée.
June 20 2012 at 5:28 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down ReplyYes, because that's exactly the point and why it's interesting.
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