J.M.W Turner’s birthday today (1775). Mike Leigh‘s Mr Turner, is a wonderful movie about its subject. “It is only when we are no longer fearful, that we begin to create.” (JMWT). 👍🖌️🎥

Love the way that Tom Cruise goes into the nitty gritty of doing stunts—the physicality of it, as well as the filmmaking aspects, to get the moments he wants the audience to see. An underrated filmmaker.

Colin Brown David McDonald Absolutely there is the potential to do one, but meanwhile we're publishing his long form work. The upcoming Kelpie the Boy Wizard has tributes to John in the back, along with a prose appreciation. Tomorrow People Vol. 2 is also out from our collaborators comicbooknews.co.uk/article/the-to…

April 19, 1996: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace: Iain McCaig's idea of a female Sith was used for the Nightsisters in video game Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Jedi Alliance (2008) and the TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars in 2011.
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April 18, 2000: Star Wars: Attack of the Clones: EVERYTHING needs to be designed. Kurt Kaufman’s concept for the air bus that transports Anakin and Padmé to the Theed palace. #StarWarsArchives19992005
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April 17, 1996: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace: George Lucas asked Doug Chiang to put the head of a rejected trade baron concept on a duck body and feet, and add little bat wings, to create Watto.
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My works are a mixture of my fears, my passions, and my boundless imagination

April 16, 1996: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace: j.s.h.u's stunning, I repeat STUNNING, design proposals, melding Millennium Falcon and Blockade Runner aesthetics to make an updated Republic Cruiser for the opening scene.
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Here are some of the comics I saw on sale at Fnac Lisboa this week, including Brubaker/Sean Phillips' RECKLESS, Daniel Clowes' MONICA, and the comic adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's THE ROAD by Manu Larcenet (which I saw in Le Havre, and upcoming in English).

Nice to see so many of my TASCHEN books on sale at Fnac in Lisbon. Star Wars, James Bond, Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock et al.

I did an interview with #KinoKino about the new JAMES BOND: DR. NO book from TASCHEN which starts 4 mins in (in German but you see closeups of the book): ardmediathek.de/video/kinokino…

Had a wonderful trip to #Lisbon with the family. Here I am at the castle overlooking the city, mapping out all the places we visited (and all the gelatos we ate).

April 13, 2004: Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: Erik Tiemens’s haunting and atmospheric concept art for shot MLP 140 depicting Padmé’s arrival on Mustafar. Anakin awaits.
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Visited the Nicolas Floc'h exhibit at MAAT Museum in Lisboa and saw this underwater photo... reminded me of E.T.

Charles Spencer Chaplin was born on this day in 1889, 135 years ago. Happy Birthday, Charlie!!! 📷

April 12, 2000: Star Wars: Attack of the Clones: Ed Natividad’s design for the insidious and highly poisonous kouhun creatures that Wesell sends to attack Amidala as she slumbers.
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April 2002: Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: Love this quote from Ryan Church. It is interesting to note that Ryan, Doug Chiang, Erik Tiemens and the rest were the first generation of artists who grew up with Star Wars:
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Coming in to land at #Lisboa Airport.