Fantasy Theater

If you're a movie buff, an illustration buff, or both, this one's for you:

http://boingboing.net/2015/09/23/80-great-movie-posters-with-th.html

Microsoft looks pretty much like you'd expect, but check out Apple...!

http://thenextweb.com/dd/2014/04/28/7-tech-logos-became-iconic/

Tracy J. Butler, ace artist of Lackadaisy, lays out the principles and practices of good character design:

http://lackadaisycats.tumblr.com/post/67909264429/notes-on-character-design

One for my commercial art colleagues..."special" client comments turned into posters:

http://digitalsynopsis.com/design/idiotic-client-feedback-turned-into-hilarious-art-for-charity/?goback=.gde_3927131_member_184097922

Matthew Olin combines superheroes and typography:

http://www.geek-art.net/matthew-olin-superhero-typographic-classifications/

http://flavorwire.com/190248/george-orwells-1984-a-visual-history

A collection of covers for various editions of Orwell's 1984. As you might expect, lots of staring eyeball iconography. My favorite is the 1950s one that looks like a lurid pulp novel...I bet a lot of people picked that one up and were disappointed.

Award-winning letterer Todd Klein has been doing a series of logo studies on his blog -- taking a character like Superman, Batman, et. al. and examining how their logos evolved over the decades. Fascinating stuff if you're a design/typography junkie like I am. In his latest post, I made a small contribution by supplying a scan of an obscure "Robin the Boy Wonder" logo:

http://kleinletters.com/Blog/?p=5902

Interesting look at the thought process behind a fantasy novel cover:
http://www.orbitbooks.net/2009/02/03/cover-launch-best-served-cold/
(spotted by laylalawlor)

Student film based on Rugg and Maruca's STREET ANGEL:


Fan-made Doctor Who anime:
(spotted by Newsarama)

In the past, I've just done simple type treatments for the covers of my comic, in the interest of letting the artwork dominate. But I finally decided I really ought to have an official Fantasy Theater logo. This still needs some tweaking, but I'm happy with the overall look.

Album meme via jbacardi:

Let's Make a Band:
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.

2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.

3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

You then take the pic and add your band name and the album title to it, then post your pic.

( I think I had that one on vinyl )

In other imaginary news, my buddy Eric and I were talking about old comics we wish would get reprinted. That inspired me to mock up a cover for a theoretical collection of Michael Golden's Batman & Man-Bat stories from the '70s:

( Patience is a virtue )
I spent way too much time on that logo... it's the old "Batman Family" logo (since that's where most of the stories originally ran), with a Golden-drawn Batman head swapped for the original Infantino(?) one. And I used the '70s DC bullet logo instead of the new one, just because.