If you watched the The Mandalorian, you’ll recall that the series did something very cool at the end of each episode — it showed concept art from that episodes as the credits played.
The imagery was created by some of the best concept artists in the business, including Ryan Church, Christian Alzmann, Brian Matyas, series production designer Doug Chiang, and others.
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Sensing the demand, StarWars.com began posting the art on its blog along with “character posters” like the ones below.
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A third season of The Mandalorian is in pre-production, but THE LEGEND WILL RETURN NEXT YEAR as first fans will see The Book of Boba Fett in December 2021.
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Three other connected series, The Book of Boba Fett, Rangers of the New Republic and Ahsoka are also in the works, plus another season of The Mandalorian as well as Obi Wan Kenobi is on the way as well!
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So much happening, I’ve been waiting so long, the production level, the writing, we have years, if not decades of Star Wars ahead of us! I personally have worked with the Disney Imagineers, and I will tell you, these are some of the brilliant people that make the magic happen, for Marvel Studios & the MCU, Star Wars, and I’m positive they have a blueprint for decades to come! I’ll read, write, create, or listen to music often before I consider television, unless a series or film I’ve been waiting on is upon us, Empty Man is one I cannot stop watching! The plans Star Wars & Disney+ have released thus far have me prepared to suit up, take to the stars, where no central government exists, chaos reigns, because the secrets out, I’m a Mandalorian. Weapons are part of my religion.
Argentine artist Ignacio Noe depicts classic cheesecake models cheerily posing as all hell breaks loose around them. Explosions, avalanches, nuclear accidents, giant beasts — none of it fazes Noe’s women in the least!
Argentine artist Ignacio Noe has published numerous books in a wide range of genres — from children’s books all the way to not-at-all children’s books. His most recent project, an erotic book called The Piano Tuner, just wrapped its Kickstarter funding campaign. You can see examples of his art on his Facebook page (and his workshop Facebook), his Instagram and his Blogspot blog.
A few years ago he combined his love of pinup art with more action-style illustration in a series called “Suddenly,” which finds classic cheesecake models cheerily posing as all hell breaks loose around them. Explosions, avalanches, nuclear accidents, giant beasts — none of it fazes Noe’s models in the least. We asked him just what’s going on here.
You have beautiful pinup girls here with all sorts of disaster or deadly chaos happening around them. That’s a bit of a contrast. Why are you combining these things?
That combining began to take shape in a comic. I’ve always had a fondness for the naive erotism in classic ’50s pinup, and in my comic book Exposition I found the opportunity to develop it. In this book, I show an old illustrator of pinups visiting the retrospective exhibition of his works. Each illustration shows a beautiful woman who is lightly stripped by a naive accident, and as he looks at each of them he remembers the sordid circumstances that inspired the image. In his memories, the accidents are dangerous, and the women ending completely undressed.
When I made the illustration portfolio “Suddenly” I focused on the intensity of accidents, not on the moral intention. In these illustrations, it is not a small accident that undresses the women but a great catastrophe. I started to create the images making a reference to a classic pin-up and playing with the contrasts. But then, I began to work on the meanings that this awakened in me and I felt that it was necessary to avoid the tragic, the gore, and the sarcasm, and as a consequence, little by little another idea emerged. Thus, the accident became an expression of the forces of nature in action and the beauty of women is one of these forces.
On one hand, these could be seen as damsels in distress — but on the other hand, they’re undisturbed or even amused by the chaos around them. How do you describe them?
The accidents of my illustrations are uncommon, there are no injuries or deaths. I avoid the tragic in my images, this gives me the possibility of seeing in the accidents only the action of the forces whose only consequence is undressing a woman. The girls smile because they do not feel threatened, they have nothing to fear, they accept nudity as an inevitable consequence of the accident because they are aware of its power. Nothing that happens is alien to them. By representing women and chaos united in this way, I feel that the beauty of women is revealed to us as one of the elemental forces of nature.
Now, in my more recent illustrations, I am working on this subject in a more explicit way. I am making a book with them.
These make us think of the weird pinups by Art Frahm, who always caught his women in a moment of panic as they are carrying groceries and their underwear falls down. But this is like Art Frahm with a lot more danger and no groceries. Was he — or was some other artist — an inspiration?
I know the illustrations of Art Frahm but I don’t like the image of the dropped panties. When I say that I love classic pinup I mean almost exclusively George Petty and especially Gil Elvgren.
George Petty’s watercolors are astonishing for their precision and subtle art deco stylization of his happy, carefree women. And Gil Elvgren’s oils set the standard and the best of style with his almost unaware women of their beauty and troubled by small domestic accidents. The character in my comic “Exposicion” is named Gil in homage to Elvgren.
The last two images here are from a new project in the “Suddenly” vein that Noe is currently developing.
Ignacio Noe has been published in the Argentinian magazines Fierro, Noticias, and Genios; as well as Lancio Story and Leternauta in Italy; and Kiss Comix in Spain. His books have been published by Delcourt, Dynamite, Les Sculpteurs de Bulles, Other Criteria, and Casterman. He is currently published by Advance Publishing in the U.S. and Glenat in Europe.
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