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Jose Villarrubia

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About Me

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The slideshow above is a presentation of the images in the book The Mirror of Love by Alan Moore and Jose Villarrubia.
Currently working on:
CONAN
NEW AVENGERS
MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS
CROSSING MIDNIGHT
GHOST RIDER
THUNDERBOLTS
WOLVERINE
BATMAN (with Sam Keith)
JOKER"S ASYLUM
MANHUNTER
HALO UPRISING
Villarrubia is an artist who has done considerable work in the American comic book industry, particularly as a colorist. Villarrubia's fine art photography has been exhibited in the U.S., Latin America and Europe, and it is part of the permanent collection of institutions such as the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Inter-American Development Bank. He is a professor in the Illustration Department of the Maryland Institute College of Art. He has also taught at Towson University, the Baltimore School for the Arts and the Walters Art Museum. He has lectured extensively about art at Johns Hopkins University, the College Art Association, Dickinson College, the Institute of Contemporary Arts|ICA in London, the Williem de Kooning Academy, the Naples Academy of Art, and the MacWorld UK Convention.
Current work includes: Illustrating The Book of Copulations, an introduction to magic in everyday life written by Alan Moore, developing Alan Moore's Tarot deck, coloring for all the major US comics companies (Crossing Midnight for DC, Ghost Rider and Silver Surfer for Marvel, City of Others and Conan for Dark Horse) and a couple European projects (La Chica Bionica by Paul Pope for Dargaud Belgium)

My Interests

Professionaly: art, comics, illustration, photography.

For fun: NPR, film, theater, opera, music videos, dance, early Christianity, fin-de-siècle, the Symbolists and Decadents.

I'd like to meet:



Anyone interested in my work or with similar tastes/values/interests/world view.

Anyone interested in meeting me.

You are a
Social Liberal
(85% permissive)

and an...
Economic Liberal
(8% permissive)

You are best described as a:

Socialist (8e/85s)

Music:

Contemporary (in no particular order): Bjork, Rufus Wainwright, Camille, Leonard Cohen, Nina Simone, Sarah Vaughn, Edith Piaf, Billy Holiday, Phillip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Alaska.

Classical: RUSALKA!!!! Bizet, Debussy, Ravel, Satie, de Falla, Granados, Tchaikovsky, Piazzolla

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Movies:

Kubrick, Visconti, Pasolini, Fellini, early Bertolucci, Haynes, Solondz, early Polanski, early Coppola, Herzog, Bergman, Berlanga, Allen, Hitchcock.

Television:

If I watched it I would love Six Feet Under. I should get around to watching Lost and Grey's Anatomy since my friends write for them.

Books:

"The Master and Margarita", "Undine", "The Happy Prince and Other Stories", "The Book of Monelle", "A Confederacy of Dunces", "Was", "Fraud", "Books of Blood", "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay", anything by David Sedaris, David Rakoff, Kelly Link, Sappho, Oscar Wilde, Marcel Schwob, Tennesse Williams, Federico Garcia Lorca.

Heroes:

Todd Haynes, Jean Cocteau, Simeon Solomon, Mel Odom, Lindsay Kemp, Oscar Wilde, Klaus Nomi.

My Blog

Dallas here I come!

I will be a guest of CAPE! 4, in Dallas this Saturday. If you are in the area, stop by and say "hi" (or bring me something to sign!)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npZe1k6kTo8http://www.c apeday.com/...
Posted by Jose Villarrubia on Thu, 01 May 2008 02:58:00 PST

Today at the ComicCon!

http://prismcomics.com/display.php?id=1551See you there! Oh, yeah, after that I am signing at the DC booth with James Jean. from 1 to 2 PM....
Posted by Jose Villarrubia on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:10:00 PST

New York City ComicCon

Hey everyone:I am at the New York City ComicCon, which is bigger and better than ever this year. The first day has been fantastic, seeing old friends and colleagues like Olivier Coipel, Phil Jimenez, ...
Posted by Jose Villarrubia on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:58:00 PST

1,008!

I just checked and my Visit My Baltimore video got more than a 1,000 hits in about two weeks... Not a bad way to end the year!Some notes on the video:-It was filmed over a two day period.-The artwork ...
Posted by Jose Villarrubia on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:06:00 PST

Silver Surfer

Heidi McDonald mentions my new book in her blog:http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/18/silv er-surfer-struts-stuff/Drawn by the very talented Tan Eng Huat, and featuring a cover by Paul Pop...
Posted by Jose Villarrubia on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:56:00 PST

Man to Man...

There is a new great history of the male nude in photography that just came out, in simultaneus editions in English, French and othe languages. It is called "Man to Man" and it features reproductions ...
Posted by Jose Villarrubia on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:12:00 PST

Breathtaking...

That's what Tony Isabella called my coloring in FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL 1. I had the great pleasure of coloring Colleen Doran, in a very moving short story that Peter David wrote title...
Posted by Jose Villarrubia on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:17:00 PST

Getting ready for SPX!

SPX is once again this weekend, in their new venue at Mariott Bethesda North Hotel. SPX stands for Small Press Expo, and, as the byline says it is "North America's Premiere Independent Cartooning and ...
Posted by Jose Villarrubia on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:21:00 PST

BIG interview with me (and some of my students!)

At the latest Baltimore Comicon, Chris Aquino from Comic News Insider conducted an interview with me and a group of MICA students from the Illustration department. They were set up in a booth courtesy...
Posted by Jose Villarrubia on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:10:00 PST

Things nobody knows about me...

While at the Baltimore Comicon, I bought a copy of the ultra deluxe edition of Earth X that Graffiti Productions put back a few years back... It is a sumptuous package, provably the best ABSOLUTE edit...
Posted by Jose Villarrubia on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:32:00 PST