Mark Laliberte, over at the CAROUSEL Magazine Blog, recent published an exclusive interview they did back in 2013 with Author & Graphic Designer Chip Kidd. In the discussion, they talk about Chip’s long career at Penguin Random House (Then, just “Random House”) & the State of Graphic Design today. They also discuss such issues as: BAT-MANGA (Chip’s Book celebrating Jiro Kuwata’s Batman Art from the 1960’s), WATCHING THE WATCHMEN (Another Book by Chip where he documents the making of THE […]
On a recent episode of the BAT FORCE RADIO Podcast they were joined by graphic designer, author, and Batman art collector Chip Kidd to talk about his comic roots, the making of books like “Batman Animated”, “Bat-Manga!” and “Batman: Death By Design”, creating the iconic Jurassic Park logo, how he acquired original pages of The Dark Knight Returns, and lots more. Check it out! Bat Force Radio · BatForceRadioEp235: Chip Kidd Interview ! ————————————————————————————————————
Here’s an older interview with CHIP KIDD that was featured on the VICE Magazine Website around the time of the publication of his “BAT-MANGA! THE SECRET HISTORY OF BATMAN IN JAPAN” Book that was released in 2008 featuring the 1960’s manga artwork of Jiro Kuwata. In the interview, Chip Kidd covers some issues with Graphic Design & his total obsession with BATMAN! To read the entire article, just CLICK HERE! ————————————————————————————————————
The Art Director and Graphic Designer Chip Kidd recently sat down with the reporters over at the BLACK HOOK Japanese Culture Blog to discuss some of his current design work. Since the website comes from Japan their main focus was what is it like to work the Japanese Author, Haruki Murakami (The Strange Library & Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years of Pilgrimage) and Manga Artist, Gengoroh Tagame (The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame). They also discuss Chip Kidd’s “Batman Book” on the Art […]
This week, THE HISTORY OF BATMAN Podcast interviewed graphic designer and Batman writer Chip Kidd from New York Comic Con! Londyn and his co-host, Mason Booker, talk with Chip about his journey into becoming a modern book jacket designer, his life-long fandom of BATMAN, and how he became part of the Dark Knight’s celebrated history with his book, “Bat-Manga! The Secret History of Batman in Japan” (Pantheon Books), exploring the lost art of the Batman Manga during the 1960s. Listen in to this riveting interview […]
Dan Greenfield, a Reporter over at the always amazing 13th DIMENSION website, recently interviewed Chip Kidd about his obsession with collecting Batman toys and memorabilia. This “sickness” started at age 2 and has followed him his whole life. Chip has actually written a few Batman-related books with some of them having a major focus on toy collecting, “Batman Collected” and “Bat-Manga: The Secret History of Batman in Japan”. He also co-wrote a book on “BATMAN: The Animated Series” with Paul Dini which features […]
Here’s a quick post to share this fun photo taken by Chip at the recent 2015 New York Comic Con event. It appears that someone is a HUGE fan of Chip Kidd’s bestselling book, Bat-Manga: The Secret History of Batman in Japan (Pantheon). That book covered the stories and artwork of Jiro Kuwata’s version of the Dynamic Duo and this tattoo recreates the famous Japanese Comic Book logo art… AWESOME!
Here’s a post that will probably excite Vintage BATMAN Toy Collectors as well as fans of Chip Kidd. TOKYO TOY GUY 2, the second film in a series created by Yuji Ueda, is set to make it’s American debut at the 2015 SACRAMENTO WIZARD WORLD COMIC CON!! For this new movie Chip Kidd made a special trip to Dubai to be interviewed and the amazing news is that they get to talk with Jiro Kuwata, the famous Japanese Manga Comic Book Artist who was […]
An extremely talented Artist & Friend sent us this wonderful photo recently showing a custom statue he created. His name is Deane Aikins and his work is AWESOME! Check out this “Lord Death Man” Statue he made from scratch! He writes a blog about his love of Batman, Collecting Comic Books and His Obsessions with Vintage Toys. It’s titled, WHEN BATMOBILES FLY. There, he did a write-up about making this statue so please be sure to check that out, LINK. Now, for […]