For several year now I have been proud to collaborate with Orbital Comics on a variety of exciting projects, exhibitions, events, signing sessions, panel discussions and more recently a series of life drawing sessions, with the Art Model Collective, themed towards illustrators and comic artists.
In their own small way these events have contributed to a greater awareness of the shop in the wider creative community and subsequently aided them in winning this year's
'Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award'
To celebrate this prestigious award (The comics equivalent of an 'Oscar') I will be hosting a special Art Model Collective life drawing event paying tribute to Eisner's Spirit comic.
Starring Ed as, masked criminologist, Denny Colt a.k.a 'The Spirit', Manko as 'Skinny Bones' & Carla as, criminal mastermind, 'P'Gell'.
This session will include dynamic poses, atmospheric lighting, music, costumes and props to create an epic celebration of Eisner's trademark character & his film noir, femme fatale inspirations (whose pun based names preceded those of James Bond fame) and roots.
Published back in the 1940s many Spirit comics are out of copyright and now lie in the public domain. To get you in the mood for this session you can read some of these for free online here
(Be warned though Spirit's sidekick 'Ebony' has not aged well, politically speaking)
(Be warned though Spirit's sidekick 'Ebony' has not aged well, politically speaking)
To give you a slight inkling of what to expect here's Manko at Orbital comics back in 2014 posing for a Film Noir themed session...
Congratulations once again to all at Orbital on a well deserved win!
See you on the 23rd,
Cheers!
Jason Atomic
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