Brian Kolm
Author's posts
Feb 01
more Marc Davis-America Sings!
Here is some more Marc Davis illustrations from the Audio Animatronics show America Sings. These come from Vacationland magazine. Here’s Sam the American Eagle and his owl sidekick. They hosted our “trip” through American music. I remember clearly, Sam sang in the finale: “and we should all remember, as history moves along, that everything is …
Jan 31
My Influences: Marc Davis-Animator and Imagineer
Marc Davis has been a big influence on me as an artist. It was Marc’s style of pen and ink with watercolor washes that influenced the look of a lot of my work, including my current style of comics starting in BTGC#2. Besides being a talented animator at the Disney Studios (Tinker Bell, Mallifciant,Cruella DeVille), …
Jan 31
The difference between color and black and white.
I recently did this poster for the Cartoon Art Museum for their upcoming Comics for Comix event. BTW It will be held on Feb 10, 2006.
Jan 29
Asterix and the Vikings poster
The Animation studio, A. Film, producing the animated film Asterix and the Vikings has an image of the official poster. They have created the film with a talented english voice cast (Paul Giamatti (Sideways) as Asterix), even though IT WON’T BE RELEASED IN THE US. Let’s cross our fingers that that changes. To find out …
Jan 29
The Evil Overlord Devises a Plot
While doing some research on Google, I found this helpful page(s):from a lecture on Stupid Plotting Tricks By Teresa Nielsen Hayden. While most story tellers strive to be unique and original, sometimes it’s best to stick with a time tested story element instead of reinventing the wheel. Ms. hayden’s workshop is part of the Viable …
Jan 29
BOOKSTEVE’S LIBRARY: Enchanted Voyage
Booksteve’s Library is a site about…well everything. As the author, Steven Thompson states in the heading: A look at books, movies, comics, music, ads and collectibles from my vast and virtual pop culture library. I was lead there from Cartoon Brew with pictures of Hanna-Barbera Land at Kings Island. I went there on a trip …
Jan 29
Space Ghost comic by Alex Toth
From the semi-official Alex Toth website tothfans.com. They post scans of the Mr. Toths work every day on a regular basis. I went to the site today and found that the page of the day was the cover of Hanna-Barbera TV Stars comic with a Super Hero theme. The next page, tomorrows is the first …
Jan 26
The other blog…er…log
It has come to my attention that some of you don’t realise that I have two diffrent blogs. The other one is my Production Log for my comic book sieries Beyond the Great Chimney. Most of my notes on craft and technique as well as my artwork will be more likely found on the log. …
