Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Who is at? I got 1 supanova and a microphone

I haven't met Nicola, but at my first Comicfest in 2002 I saw her, she was the tall red head, hanging with the Red Star guys.
She'd pop up on ozcomics from time to time, showing little bits of her portfolio. The cool thing was that she was one of the few artists that concentrated on sequential art, not just the odd pin up or sketch but properly thought out sequential art, you know, like comics have.
One that I can still remember was an Elektra 4 pager.
She doesn't have much of a site (none of this years' guests do) but it used to have these gorgeous pencil pieces; mainly Wonder Woman and Battle of the Planets, but they were nice and lush (I prefer her pencil work a bit more than her inking). Her first professional work was with Phosphorescent comics, doing covers on the second volume of the Watch series. Then she moved OS, that's overseas, to the US, that's United States. It seemed like it didn't take long for her to pick up work, i remember her posting about a Top Cow series, that i don't think my local ever got in, and then some indie work, but her main claim to fame , so far, was Star Wars 26,27 (or 27,28 - they are buried in my collection anyway)
The Star Wars stuff looked very nice, so full and rounded. Just beautiful. if she ever gets on Wonder Woman I may even buy it. On a WW related noted, I think in the last days of ozcomics, she posted up a reworking of some published Wonder Woman pages, which i've heard is a good way of practicing your storytelling skills and something that gets an editor's attentions. (During film school we used to reedit films all the time and look where i am today - no wait move on)

Personally, Nicola, was interviewed for ozcomics issue 4 and provided the cover of the same issue (which also featured Doug Holgate). Nicola will be appearing at Artist Alley, and according to the Supanova website will be doing portfolio reviews.

Otherwise - for some art and halfway down for an interview

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