The five determiners of comics quality: Talent. Editorial taste. Budget. Availability. Time.

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With comics you are actually interacting with art, with drawings in a way you don't do even in animation. You read, think, read, think, repeatedly. Consider everything from the expression of the line to whatever thoughts the text evokes. As complex as you make it. The most active consumption of art.

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This personal work was later used for the album cover for Dark Ages by Soulfly, but I made some changes digitally at the request of the band, specifically Max Cavalera who I’d worked with on the Sepultura covers. www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/ap...

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The painting was a reaction to news of the fighting in Sarajevo in 1992, but unfortunately war as a topic for art will be universal and eternal, especially as we continue to be influenced by hate and drawn into intractable wars.

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APOTHEOSIS OF WAR (1992)
 Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 20” x 19” 

People often ask me, “Where do you get your ideas?” I always have so many that I don’t think I’ll live long enough to paint them all...and if I ever experience a shortage, I just have to pick up the morning paper. #horror #art

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