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Poster: How Very Tokyo. Robbie Mahoney, GTF. 2009

Zangief paper cut figure

early sketchbook drawing of Envy Adams, 2004

scanned for the color edition of Scott Pilgrim vol 2, which will come out in October 2012. (Vol 1 is out August 2012)

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT

i’ve seen this pic go all around up and down the internet with all different attributions! it’s a joke. it’s fanart. it’s a diss piece. it’s by me.

HERE’S THE TRUTH: this was drawn specifically for me by Aaron Ancheta, junior assistant on vol 6. Date: AUGUST 2009. This was a few months before he actually became my assistant. I drew some of his characters (voila) and asked for a pic of “scott pilgrim punching someone’s head off in a geyser of blood” in exchange.

I posted it on flickr and the scott pilgrim forum and then it escaped into the wild where it continues to confuse people to this day.

Aaron drew amazing Scott Pilgrim characters so i hired him as my assistant.

approaching shadow | fan ho. 1954.

Japanese Art: Misty Day in Nikko. Hiroshi Yoshida. 1937

Super Moon? How About a Super Sun!

“On May 5, 2012, while everyone else was waiting for the “Super Moon” astrophotographer Alan Friedman was out capturing this super image of a super Sun from his back yard in Buffalo, NY!

Taken with a specialized telescope that can image the Sun in hydrogen alpha light, Alan’s photo shows the intricate detail of our home star’s chromosphere — the layer just above its “surface”, or photosphere.

Prominences can be seen rising up from the Sun’s limb in several places, and long filaments — magnetically-suspended lines of plasma — arch across its face. The “fuzzy” texture is caused by smaller features called spicules and fibrils, which are short-lived spikes of magnetic fields that rapidly rise up from the surface of the Sun.

On the left side it appears that a prominence may have had just detached from the Sun’s limb, as there’s a faint cloud of material suspended there.”