For those folks from Penny Arcade who are are stopping by for the first time, you have arrived at the official Alex Toth website. (also reachable via comic books, animation and illustration.
While you are here, you will see that we have an extremely comprehensive collection of Alex Toth's art. To start off, you can see a great variety in the Gallery section.
Alex Toth is one of comic art and animation's great teachers. If you have seen a "super hero" cartoon from Hanna Barbera or a host of other animation companies, you have seen his art. Toth provided designs for all aspects, from characters and vehicles to everyday objects like buildings and computers.
In comic books, Toth is also revered and is a huge influence. His ability to draw characters with real emotion, to position them in the panel, use black effectively and to "know what to leave out" (a famous Toth principle) are followed by comic books artists around the world.
Toth's art style and approach has and continues to influence generations of artists. Here on the site you can read Alex Toth's own unique " director's commentary" like annotations of his comic book work and art.
We hope you like the site and will continue to visit as well as join our forums to participate in great dialog about Alex Toth and our love of comic books, animation and art in general. And stop by every day for a new Alex Toth comic book page.
Welcome everyone!
We have some new Alex Toth tributes for the site from Federico Zilli, Paul Smith & Franck Biancarelli.
Franck's mentioned that his tribute is "..a song's adaptation : ' L' homme à la tête de chou'".
Paul had this to say about his tribute of Errol Flynn, "Someone in the 'One Man Show' section left an unfinished drawing alone and unprotected ...".
Thanks guys!
"You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Alex Toth has his first ever "One Man Art Show" running Sterling Collage Art Gallery from November 1st 2005-January 31st 2006. The show put on by Dave Cook and his students to help expose new people to Toth's work.
So in order to give it a more permanent "virtual home", Dave has sent scans of the pieces to be displayed here on Tothfans.com.
It's the "AnnoToth" we've all been waiting for, The Case of the Curious Classic". Josh B. Malks, editor of the Auburn/Cord/Duesenberg Newsletter, has offered to publish an article with 4 pages of color commemorating Alex's "casting" of the Cord in several stories. Dave Cook sent "The Case of the Curious Classic" to Toth saying, "Hey, we haven't done one of these in 3 years..." so the result, hot from the mailbox is here at Toth's web site. Enjoy... but watch out for those Macadam roads... dangerous curves ahead...
