Icons

Huzzah! A book I designed for Titan last year has been nominated for an Eagle Award! Icons: The DC and Wildstorm Art of Jim Lee is in the running for Best Comics-Related Book.

If you have a moment, please pop along here to vote for it! Here's some images from the book:

You can see more at our website: amazing15.com

There's also a rumour circulating it might be up for another, even more prestigious award... More on that as we get it!

- Martin

Sucker Punch Review #2

The Art of Sucker Punch, a huge doorstep of a book designed by myself for the upcoming movie, has been reviewed on cult nerd site AintItCool. Here's a screen grab of the review - click to embiggen (or click here to visit the site). Nice!

Mart

Uncle Boonmee

I've long been a fan of designer and illustrator Chris Ware. Jimmy Corrigan is a benchmark of tiny-picture funny and some of his book covers are awesome, like this one.

This is a poster for a film I'm not at all familiar with, but it jumped out at me from the wall of other posters on Apple's trailers website and a bit of googling revealed it was, indeed, by Mr. Ware. It's an utterly joyous piece of work.

Invite

This is an invite we did for our Titan leaving party, based on the inspiration for our company name. Frankly we should both be ashamed of the arguments we had about who was gonna be Spidey…

And this is the original cover...

Martin

AMAZING!

Well it's probably well known now that Amazing15 takes it's name from Amazing Fantasy#15, the 1962 comic which features the first appearance of Spider-Man.

Since the last Spider-Man film was a whole four years ago, clearly the entire franchise is well over-due a reboot and Marc '500 Days of Summer' Webb (HA! HE HAS 'WEB' IN HIS NAME!) is helming a new movie with Andrew Garfield playing the wall-crawler. Following 'Spider-Man', 'Spider-Man 2' and the breathtakingly titled 'Spider-Man 3', the title of the new film was announced yesterday:

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN.

Amazing.

Hey! He has mechanical web-shooters!

The Office

For those who asked, here's a handful of photos of Amazing15 HQ.

Our desks. Marcus has the orange chair. We have christened that massive printer R2D2 for no other reason than we're idiots. That small door to the left is where we keep the naughty children. And the cold water tank. Keen eyes will spot that, along with some other bits and pieces, the Amazing Fantasy #15 cover canvas we got when we left Titan (thanks guys!) is up on the wall...

Behind my work station is another desk on which is my drawing board (in this photo the final page of issue #3 my comic The Absence is pasted up on it, fact fans).

As you might be able to see from this angle, when I'm talking to someone on the webcam, I have our year planner behind my head, whereas...

...when Marcus is on webcam, he has my book shelves behind him. The upshot of this is that I look all organised and stuff, and he looks all clever innit.

Martin

Olly Good

So there's this UK graphic designer whom I follow - goes by the name of Olly Moss. He's quite popular now as his work for the Levis Rolling Roadshow tour was shown on the Apple website. If you're not familiar, he does beautiful, usually three colour illustrations for movie posters and such. Very simple, but all about conveying the message in really clever/stark ways.

Yesterday Emily sent me this image:

It's called Wolverine or two Batmans? Good right?

So I went to Olly's blog to see what else he's been doing lately and, apparently, he's had commissions from Marvel and Lucas Film:

The Star Wars posters are so good. Check out how the forest trees make up Darth Vader's features on the Jedi poster and the two suns of Tatooine are 3PO's eyes - love that!

I carried on scrolling down his blog and came across this, posted end of last year, with the comment that just said, "Optimism!".

Made me smile.


Marcus x