Artist August: Guillaume Singelin [Art Feature]

Guillaume Singelin is an artist who’s come to my attention relatively recently. The very first bit of his work to catch my eye were his designs for Jun, a young girl with an eye patch and a giant gun (you’ll see a bit of her below.) Examining Singelin’s art, you’ll see that there is an incredible amount of thought and design that goes into all of it. Jun’s clothing looks to have a fair bit of wear, and none of her accessories seem frivolous. There’s a good amount of believability to what you’re seeing, which stands in juxtaposition with her actual, less realistic anatomy. She’s got these realistic looking clothes and weapons, but has a big head, giant eyes, and a short torso. Singelin’s approach to his art feels almost like Akira Toriyama and José Ladrönn are jamming together on a Disney comic, blending detailed weapons, vehicles and backgrounds with manga-esque characters. I find his work fascinating, it’s like he has the ability to tell an entire story with a single pin-up. When he draws a character, you can almost feel the weight of their entire personal history pushing off of the page and into your head. When Singelin applies this to his sequentials, he draws readers into these worlds of his creation through seemingly effortless storytelling.

As far as I can tell, Singelin’s story Carjacking is the only of his work to have been published in English, appearing in the Pop Gun anthology. Other than that, his comics seem to all be in his native French. Recently, his story Grand Master League was collected in the anthology Chaud Nem Jump. If the following collection of his work suits your fancy, check out his Tumblr and his website for even more.