Chainsaw Maid

Awesome zombie claymation by Takena Nagao.

www.youtube.com/user/takena

Super person of the week: Paul Duffield

I got to know Paul Duffield's work through Warren Ellis' ongoing weekly comic FreakAngels, and it totally blew me away since the very first chapter. FreakAngels book 3 has just been published, and the online updates keep coming every Friday.

 

Apart from FreakAngels, his published works include a wordless 18 page manga-influenced comic strip called Sojourn, and an adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest (view preview here).

www.spoonbard.com
www.freakangels.com

Nuno Platis

It's always very refreshing to see well known characters drawn in a totally different way. That's one of the reasons I love Nuno Platis' work. Super-stylized goodness!!

nunoplati.blogspot.com
www.myspace.com/nunoplati

Daniel Novakovic

Daniel Novakovic is a Swedish illustrator now based in London. A lot of his work is music related - record covers, gig flyers, club night posters, etc; but he's also done some work for the Swedish Council of Public Arts, including a huge piece consisting of over 200 drawings covering 7 walls at Linköping Universit, and a couple of great comics. So good!

www.danielnovakovic.com

Cristy Road

Cristy Road's work as an illustrator started back in the early nineties, in her own self-published zine Green'zine and gradually evolved into her current style, and has always tackled pretty strong subject matters like social principles, gender, sexual deviance, identity, racism, drug abuse, mental inadequacies and death.

She released her first graphic novel - Indestructible, an autobiographical tale about teenagerhood, rebellion, gender, queerness, mental health, promiscuity and punk rock in 2006 and followed with a collection of postacards (Distance Makes the Heart Grow Sick) and a second novel last year (Bad habits).

She is currently based in New York, drawing and writing, and has just been back from an european tour with the all-queer-girl spoken-word roadshow Sister spit.

www.croadcore.org
www.myspace.com/croadcore

My first crush

I happend upon Julia Pott's work a while ago, thru this great animated music video for Casiotone for the painfully alone's single White Corolla and I fell in love.

My first crush, a lovely animation based on real interviews with people about their first crushes was her final project at Kingston University back in 2007.

www.juliapott.com
www.youtube.com/user/juliapot

Super person of the week: Dean Trippe

Dean Trippe is a freelance comics creator based in Tennessee. I love the simplicity and ingenuity of his work.

He is also the founder and editor of Project: Rooftop , the creator of the superhero parody webcomic Butterfly, the writer of the weekly political cartoon President awesome, and a member of the all-ages comics collective Lunchbox Funnies. Awesomeness!

www.deantrippe.com
dryponder.livejournal.com/

Street Fashion illustration

Chilean illustrator Rodrigo Díaz seems to have always been into fashion illustration and now he has a  new project called Loocki, depicting contemporary street fashion illustrated portraits. Super nice!

www.loocki.com
www.mouseypapel.cl/rodrigodiaz.html
www.flickr.com/photos/rodrigo_diaz_ilustrador

Lucy Knisley's watercolours

I wish I could be this productive everytime I get the flu.

lucylou.livejournal.com

Andy Awesome

Andy Awesome creates huge icon-like acrylic paintings of 80s pop culture characters. I couldn't figure out if it's just one guy or a design company behind it, but one way or another, they look great!

The designs are available as t-shirts, limited edition prints, desktop wallpapers, and even as a (highly addictive) online memory game. Fun!

www.andyawesome.com

Real life

The other day I was reading Anna Petterson's (one of the main characters of Marc Ellerby's comic Ellerbisms) comments about how weird it is to be parf of an autbiographical comic and have so much of your life shared with people you don't know, and I realized it's also kind of weird for us, readers, to see characters we are so used to, and whose life we know so much of, as real-life people.

I always find it strange and amusing to see a real photograph or video of somebody I know so well in the cartoon form... I guess that in my head, I almost expect them to be animated. Here's some of my favourite comic people, and the corresponding flesh-and-blood versions of themselves in all their glory.

James Kochalka - The American Elf

Adam Cadwell - The Everyday
  Natasha Allegri - Normal life
   Emi Lenox - Emitown

Marc Ellerby - Ellerbisms
Jacob Borshard - Creebobby
Lucy Knisley - ArtJournal