Jason Levesque

I first came across Jason Levesque (aka Stuntkid)'s work on the cover of Comic book tattoo, and seem to keep seeing his stuff everywhere at the moment. That's probably because he knows how to keep himself busy - just in the past few months, he's done a variant x-men cover for marvel's 70th anniversary, published a new book, designed cd covers, a set of coasters, and a whole series of decals for Infectious. 

www.stuntkid.com

DCM

DCM (Damien M. Charles) makes me most amazing paper toys ever.
He says: "I've always been a hands on boy, love to build things and love to destroy things. Through papertoys I've found that I can create a complex model and accompany it with some killer looks to make it twice as awesome." Wow! They certainly do look awesome!

www.flickr.com/photos/dmsee
www.dmchoody.blogspot.com
www.dmcdmcblog.blogspot.com

Bloom Bombs

Ace stop motion animation by Jay Pong, Kobo Sin & Sherman Pang from Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design.

By the powers of Grayskull: I am fashionable!!!

German artist Adrian Riemann created this great series of  portraits featuring famous Masters of the Universe characters as hipster fashion models. He says: "I imagined them somewhere in the indie/hipster/fashion-scene, as if they were doing a photoshooting for some magazine. I'm a fashion-nerd myself, so I dressed them up in things that really excist and that I like".

www.behance.net/AdrianFranco

Super person of the week: Chris Giarrusso

Chris G is the creator of G-Man, a fun new superhero comic on Image, and Mini Marvels, featuring the good old Marvel heroes as kids, which has appeared as back up features in many of their comics and has recently been compiled into two books of their own.

Have a look at his website for loads of strips, drawings and sketches. Superheroes have never looked this cute!

www.chrisgcomics.com

Dylan Bradway

Dylan Bradway is one of those people who make things happen. He is one of founders of the DNA galleries in Oklahoma, is involved with local art organizations, and does some amazing paintings.

www.myspace.com/dylanbradway
www.dnagalleries.com/dylan/dylan_art.html
  

Penguin Classics Covers Redesigned

Penguin books have been commissioning cartoonists and illustrators to redesign the cover art for Deluxe editions of some of their classics. With over twenty tittles in the series so far, they have featured the work of Daniel Clowes, Jason, Charles Burns, Joe Sacco, Jeffrey Brown, Frank Miller and lots of others.

Visit Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley’s Flickr set to see the covers for every book in the series.

MonkeyGiRl

For the past year or so, Barth Maunoury's blog has been almost entierely dedicated to his character MonkeyGiRL, quite often staring in famous movie posters, cartoon shows, and fighting superheroes, she totally rocks!

yearinmerde.blogspot.com

Andrew Fulton

I have been following Andrew Fulton's blog Mumblier for a while, but just only recently came across his flickr page, where not only a lot of the mumblier strips are hosted, but also a load of other drawings and characters. His Comic characters and Nude superheroes galleries are just too good!!

 

www.mumblier.com
www.flickr.com/photos/andrewfulton 

Paper Cut-out Samurai

Awesome Samurai Jack promo animation Chel White created for Cartoon Network.

Super person of the week: Sam Flores

Heavily influenced by his graffiti background, Sam Flores' current fine art work is instantly indentifiable. Working with canvas, walls, furniture, vinyl toys, clothing lines and skateboard desings, he has estabilished his place in the modern art movement in San Francisco along the likes of Jeremy Fish, Mike Giant and Shepard Fairey. Something in the water, they say...

www.samflores.com

Skottie Young

I love Skottie young's style.

He illustrated Marvel's recent take on the Wizard of Oz and the whole thing looks amazing. By the way, the hardcover collection of the series is out this week. Not to be missed!

www.skottieyoung.com
skottieyoung.deviantart.com

Tales of the Bunnyfish

Kozyndan have collected some of their work into a book of photography and paintings about the travels of a bunnyfish who has left the seas to learn more about the human world above. Originally made made for fun jsut for some friends, Tales of the Bunnyfish, is now public and available for everyone who wants it via Blurb.


Kozyndan are Los Angeles-based husband-and-wife illustrator team Kozue and Dan Kitchens. Generally combining elements of everyday life with the amazing and bizarre, they've had their work on cd covers for bands such as weezer and the postal service, posters for nike, gelaskins, conceptual designs for videos, and in a number of exhibitions.


They have art prints and posters are available on their own website as well as quite a few galleries and shops all around. A personal favoutie is the awesome Season of The Bunny poster series. Just genious!

 

www.kozyndan.com

Super person of the week: James Kochalka

James Kochalka is one of my top heroes. His daily comic strip "The American Elf" has been going on for 10 years now, portraying every day life in a way that only he can do.

In just 3 or 4 pannels a day, he manages to document different aspects of his life in a clever, funny and most endearing way.



He has published numerous books, including including three collections of the American Elf strips, the also full of autobiographical references Magic boy and the Robot Elf, and one of my all time favourites Monkey vs Robot.

www.americanelf.com

Cesko

I just discovered the work of Italian illustrator Cesko Finterspoone. I couldn't find much background information on him, but a lot of his work is available on his blog and flickr pages. Great stuff!



www.flickr.com/photos/cesko/
finterspoone.wordpress.com/

MUTO

I was just at BLU's website to see if they had anything new up. They didn't. But I noticed something I hadn't before - they've made MUTO available under a Creative Commons license. Awesome!

MUTO - An ambiguous Animation painted on public walls is a graffiti stop-motion short film made on the streets of Buenos Aires and Baden last year.



It's available as avi or ogg files here.

Once on the website, check out the drawings and walls sections for a very impressive archieve.

www.blublu.org

Aaron Costain

Aaron Costain is an is an architect and designer based in Toronto who draws awesome mini-comics. He's also a part of the small jam comics collective Team Society League along with John Martz and Zach Worton.

The fourth part of Entropy, his longest self-published work, has just been made available on his website, where you can also find lots of his previous comics and art prints.

My personal favourite is the brilliant and beautifully illustrated Calamity coach or alternatively titled Thirteen Reasons Not to Travel: A Non-Narrative Pictorial Sequence of Imaginary Events Designed to Discourage Even the Bravest Souls from Vehicular Travel.

You can see all the other 12 reasons here.

aaroncostain.com

Marvel's Strange Tales Max is finally out!

I'd been anxiously waiting for Strange Tales Max since reading about it on the fantagraphics blog a couple of months ago, and the first issue (of three) is finally out now. The anthology showcases classic Marvel characters re-imagined by lots of great indepedent artists. I haven't got my copy yet, but the idea of Jason, James Kochalka, and Junko Mizuno drawing marvel heroes is almost too good to be true.

Issue # 1 features James Kochalka, Paul Pope, Peter Badge, Junko Mizuno, Molly Crabapple, John Leavuttm, Dash Shaw, Johnny ryan, Michael Kupperman, Nick Bertozzi and Nicholas Gurewich. Woot!

Super person of the week: Humberto Ramos

I discovered Humberto Ramos a couple of years ago and have been following his work ever since. He has done a lot of work for marvel in the past years and I particularly love the way he draws spider-man (probably my favourite rendering ever). Gotta love new-school!

www.humbertoramos.com