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  • Jake Parker (update)

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    Jake Parker (no relation to your correspondent) is an illustrator, comics artist and visual development artist based in Utah. His visual development credits include work on Rio, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Horton Hears a Who and Titan A.E. He is familiar to many as the author and artist of the Missile Mouse all…

  • Al Parker

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    As the Golden Age of Illustration waned in the middle of the 20th Century, and color photography became the dominant force in magazines and newspapers, illustration itself, along with the rest of the art world, went through some major shifts. One of the pioneers of this changing landscape was Al Parker, an American illustrator and…

  • Jake Parker

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    Jake Parker (no relation to yours truly) is an illustrator and comic book artist living in New York. He as done conceptual art and illustrations for companies like Disney, Warner Brothers and Wizards of the Coast. He has also done a number of comic stories, including contributions to Flight VOL1 and VOL 2. The “Comics”…

  • Charley Parker

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    I am a plein air painter, webcomics artist, cartoonist, illustrator, web site designer and web animator (yeah, me and my 5 clones) living in the Philadelphia area. I’m probably best known as the creator of Argon Zark!, the first ongoing comic created specifically for distribution on the Web. (That’s Argon, not me, pictured above…). I…

  • Kees Kousemaker’s Comiclopedia at Lambiek.net

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    Lambiek is certainly one of the oldest, if not the oldest, comic shop in the world. Located in Amsterdam, it was founded by in 1968 by Kees Kousemaker. At one level, the shop’s online presence is a webshop, a source of comics, graphic novels and related material, often hard to find, that ships worldwide. In…

  • A personal note: I’m still here because…

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    I am able to be here writing this because, as of yesterday, September 1, 2025, I have had my kidney transplant for 33 years! We were having a Labor Day barbecue with friends, when my wife called me into the house to take a phone call. It was Jefferson Hospital. I had been in to…