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Below is a new print I made for the "REVIVAL" Print Portfolio organized by Josh Dannin, Adam Leestma, and Sage Perrott. It is the text from page 23 in the comic, with a white layer overlay printed on gray paper. I wanted to find a new way of showing the correlation between the narrative and... Continue Reading →
I recently completed my first book. The book is a visual deconstruction of each page of the original Iron Man comic. All imagery is removed, and only the dominant background color(s) remain. In order to achieve this effect, I only use the color scanned from the original pages. I had to digitally cut and paste... Continue Reading →
I recently completed two new silkscreens for a few upcoming exhibition opportunities. Both prints are silkscreens, and are alphabetical lists of all the words used in the comic book IRON MAN issue 178. This continues my new interest of finding ways to reorganize the information presented in the original book. "IRON MAN Volume: 01 Issue:... Continue Reading →
On January 12, 2014 the group exhibition for Future Tenant “SHAME OF THE CITY: Deconstructing and reconstructing comic book narratives” closed. This exhibition featured 23 artists from all over the country (and Canada). Every artist was assigned a page from the “Iron Man” comic I have been working with and was asked to make new... Continue Reading →
Summer is usually my most productive time, and I hope this summer stands up to that rule. This month, I completed three new CMYK Silkscreen prints. "Bench" CMYK Silkscreen 7"x7.5" "Bench (II)" CMYK Silkscreen 7"x7.5" "Got to." CMYK Silkscreen 4.5"x10" On a more personal note, my interest in my recent work was solidified by a... Continue Reading →
PRINTERESTING posted a recent studio visit, written by Taryn McMahon. http://www.printeresting.org/2013/01/14/studio-visit-joseph-lupo/
The other major aspect of my summer research was CMYK printing all 23 pages of the Iron Man issue 178 comic. This series is similar to an earlier series of black and white prints using the entire page of the comic. All imagery is removed, and only the dominant background color(s) remain. In order to... Continue Reading →
As I alluded to earlier, I had a very busy few weeks getting caught up printing all the digital images I had been making over the last six or seven months. With the help of my studio assistant, WVU undergraduate student Joe DeLong, we successfully printed two series of prints. Below are examples of recent... Continue Reading →
All the prints are in, and my latest portfolio project "NOT Approved by the Comics Code Authority" is complete! I was really lucky to have a great group of artists participate in this project. These artists all are working with or are inspired by comic imagery. Portfolio participant Andrew Kozlowski organized a panel presentation for... Continue Reading →
After months of working on the digital version of this image, I have finally completed the CMYK Silkscreen of the "Building..." There were a lot of edits and changes/corrections that needed to be made to this single panel page of the Iron Man comic I have been working from for the last few years. You... Continue Reading →
Joseph Lupo 