What things do

What things do is a new webcomic collective founded by Jordan Crane. It features his own comics as well the work of John Porcellino, Sammy Harkham, Ted may, Steve Weissman and it looks like there's even more to come.

I only discovered it a couple of days ago , but have been slowly reading my way through everything on the site and I have to agree with the forbidden planet blog - it certainly is the most beautiful collection of strips in one place I’ve seen in a long time.


whatthingsdo.com

Robot of the month club

Seattle based illustrator Christine Marie Larsen has a very nice little project going on: The Robot of the Month club - an annual subscription service that gets you a new robot print delivered to your door every month. She's been doing it for over two years now and has a great archieve of the paintings on her website, featuring robots often in very unexepected situations.


www.christinelarsen.com

Jessie Douglas

The bio on Jessie Douglas website says: "Everything I discover around me has potential... urban detritus, peeling paint and filthy concrete structures. I find the ugly and mundane to be beautiful, its character and stories inspiring.", and she certainly makes them that way to others too. I'm totally awed over how beautiful (and certainly inspiring) these are.

www.jessdouglas.co.uk
jessdouglas.blogspot.com

Covered is one!

Tomorrow it will be exactly one year since Robert Goodin started Covered, a blog featuring a variety of artists redoing comic covers in their own style, and one of my favourite sites to date. It's amazing how much awesome stuff he got in there in such a short time, and almost impossible to choose favourites amongst the almost 300 posts that the blog hosts today.

There are some big names in there, but a great thing about Covered is that it's not about that. Goodin considers every submission and posts everything he considers suitable for the blog, making it a great place to discover new artists.

Above: Walt Disney and stories by Robert Goodin, Daredevil by Jess Bradley, PEP by Cole Jonhson and Shazam by Brent Engstrom.

coveredblog.blogspot.com

Super person of the week: Seth Fisher

I only discovered Seth Fisher's work last month and was quite shocked and sad to learn he passed away four years ago. His work is great and some of most unique i have seen.

He illustrated 'Vertigo Pop: Tokyo' (which got him a Eisner award nomination in 2003), worked on a variety of DC and Marvel titles, (most notably 'Flash: Time Flies'), designed his own video games, did lots of conceptual design work, and drew for a wide variety of outlets.

His website is still being updated reguarly by his family and hosts a lot of his artwork, games, and even a shop.

www.floweringnose.com

Parkour Animation

Flip book animation, illustrated by Serene Teh and produced by Noel Lee.

vimeo.com/user2823593

Superheroed!

As if the idea of a superhero themed club night wasn't enough fun by itself, it also has the most amazing posters: superhero remixes of 80s record covers designed and drawn by Cliff Chiang. It makes me kind of jealous of all those lucky new yorkers.

I'm not sure whether all of these were drawn for the party, but Chiang seems to be having fun doing them and says he's got a few more ideas for other album covers. Awesome!

www.cliffchiang.com
www.myspace.com/cosmicpowernyc

Covers for The New Yorker 2009

My personal favourite covers for the The New Yorker in 2009:

March 02nd by Ivan Brunetti, May 11th by Dan Clowes, June 01st by Jorge Colombo (made on the ipod application Brushes. wow!), July 20th by Bruce McCall, August 24th by Adrian Tomine and October 26th by John Cuneo.

See all the covers at The New Yorker website.

Avatar by Patrick Brown

This is the first bit of Avatar-inspired awesomeness I came across since the film came out. I wonder if it's going to become one of those timeless classics whose characters hundreds of people still draw twenty years later...

patrickbrown.deviantart.com