Super everything

Luke Dixon

2010-05-21T23:16:00.005+01:00

I managed to find Luke Dixon at three different websites and social networks (flickr, tumblr, and on his own site) and on lots of blog posts, but not a single line of background information on the guy. I love his style though.

www.lukedixonart.co.uk
www.flickr.com/photos/lukedixonart

Laura Barnard on HP laptops wallpapers

2010-05-20T20:47:00.004+01:00

I've been a big fan of Laura Barnard's quirkly drawn cityscapes for quite some time, so it was great to learn she had been commisioned by HP to design a series of desktop wallpapers for their new line of laptops. How awesome would it be to start your brand new laptop for the first time and see something like this? Way to go, Laura!

The best part is that, as well as having these as their new standard wallpapers, HP has also made them available to download for free here. If only I had a facebook account...

www.laurabarnard.co.uk

Pixels

2010-04-10T22:37:00.003+01:00

Awesome little short film by Patrick Jean. According to One More Production, the company behind the film, it's had over one million views in less than 24 hours and I'm not surprised!

www.onemoreproduction.com

Seeing the Future: A guide to visual communication

2010-03-14T09:59:00.000Z

I am almost a month late in posting this, but it's too good not to mention - Howtoons and Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam have teamed up to create a drawing and ideation guide that teachs how to get big ideas down on paper. In 20 pages, it covers how to make up shapes, proportion, perspective and even a bit of art history; everything beatifully illustrated and put together in a fun and interesting way.

The whole guide is free and availabe to view online or download.

www.howtoons.com

Superman Challenge

2010-03-13T13:26:00.005Z

Last week Warren Ellis tried something a little different on the REMAKE/REMODEL challenge on the Whitechapel forum. The idea was:

" You are an artist/designer. You have to put together the cover for a comic called SUPERMAN. It is issue 1 of this book. You have been told that Superman is a man who dresses predominantly in a shade of blue, and wears a red S symbol. You know nothing else about the character. The cover must include a logo and the text THE COMPLETE STORY OF THE DARING EXPLOITS OF THE ONE AND ONLY SUPERMAN. It's up to you what kind of company you're at. What kind of comics you make. How you translate that description of Superman. What era you're in. Who you are, even. Go nuts with it."

How awesome is that for a challenge? Here's a small sample of some of the incredible artwork the thread generated.

Covers above by Alberto J. Silva, Bryant paul Johnson, David Bednarski, Tom Muller, Thomas Perkins, Gaston, Chris G. Team Mummy, Anthony Brennan, Mike Rooth, Paul Milligan, Jorell and Dean Trippe.

See the whole thread here.

Now there's a new challenge up and this time it's for 2000AD. The idea is the same - you've been given a brief to design the cover for an anthology you know very little about and it's up to you to interpet the idea. I think there will be some great stuff coming out of this one too.

Glorkian! GO!

2010-02-21T02:09:00.002Z

James Kochalka has teamed up with the indie game studio Pixeljam to make something he's wanted for a long time - his very own video game! I'm not even into games, but I think this is going to awesome.

They are trying to raise enough money to get the project going, and are offering some pretty amazing rewards for everybody who helps in any way. More details on the game (including an ace little animation with the american elf talking in a voice that doesn't sound anything like the voice i had for james kochalka in my head) and on how to help them reach their $10000 target at kickstart.com.

www.kickstarter.com
www.americanelf.com

Johnnie Cluney

2010-02-16T16:26:00.005Z

Johnnie Cluney is the main illustrator for the music website Daytrotter. According to this bio, "his design adventures began in his early grade school years with ninja turtle drawings, and bubble letters. since then johnnie has gone on to design countless flyers, record covers, t shirts and more".

I couldn't find any more of his work online, but there's plenty to see at Daytrotter, with almost six years worth of reocrding sessions and a band portrait to go with each one of them.

www.daytrotter.com

Pathetic geek stories

2010-02-09T13:17:00.004Z

Pathetic geek stories is pretty much what the name says: awkward, often embarassing little stories that Maria Schneider has been compiling and illustrating for the past fifteen years or so. The current online archieve collects dozens of the best stories told by friends and submitted by readers over the years (and you can even submit your own here).

patheticgeekstories.com

Hourly Comics - part 2

2010-02-05T22:12:00.001Z

Lots of people have added their comics to the Hourly Comic Day Forums since I posted about it on Tuesday, including some old time favourites like Marc Ellerby, Adam Cadwell, Lucy Knisley and Box Brown.

There are 7 whole pages worth of links and so many good ones it's hard to pick favourites, but here's a few more that I really enjoyed:

Tim Carpenter

Rachel Weiss

Jordyn Bochon

(click on the images for the full comic)

Hourly Comics

2010-02-02T17:10:00.006Z

Yesterday was the Hourly Comic Day. The idea is simple (and a lot of fun): to get lots of artists everywhere to make a journal comic every hour they were awake and post the results online. Here's a few that stood out for me, but there are tons of other really good ones over at the tencentticker message board.

Vicki Nerino

Thorsten Sideboard

Britt Wilson

Ste Hitchen

Joe Hunter

Joseph Bergin III

And here's one from Lucy Knisley. Even though she hasn't posted one for yesterday yet, she had been doing hourly comics every wednesday for the past month.

(click on the images for the full comic)

ilovedust

2010-02-01T16:18:00.002Z

Ilovedust is a "design boutique" based in Southsea. Their work ranges from interactive design and motion graphics to brand identity and art direction, and amongst the load of (very good) design work in their online portfoilo, there are some pretty awesome illustrations too.

www.ilovedust.com
www.clickforart.com/artist/ILoveDust/

What things do

2010-01-30T17:11:00.003Z

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

2010-01-16T13:06:00.004Z

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

2010-01-13T17:30:00.002Z

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!

2010-01-11T15:49:00.027Z

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

2010-01-08T18:05:00.002Z

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

2010-01-06T00:00:00.001Z

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

vimeo.com/user2823593

Superheroed!

2010-01-05T17:59:00.002Z

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

2010-01-04T23:48:00.000Z

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

2010-01-01T23:25:00.002Z

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

Wesley Eggebrecht

2009-12-17T18:38:00.001Z

I discovered Wesley Eggebrecht's work through the collective art blog Numen Square a while ago and have been following his work every since. Definitly someone to keep an eye out for.

www.wesleyeggebrecht.com
www.artbywesley.com

Extra Ordinary

2009-12-16T18:01:00.001Z

Right on the same day I discovered Li Chen's webcomic, she had a problem with wordpress and all the website content disappeared. I managed to still read all the strips on flickr and was left wanting more, so it's great to see the blog up and running again.

Quite appropriately named, the webcomic is a mixture of simple everyday situations and out of the ordinary daydreams, featuring Li, her boyfriend and her cat Shoelace. I'm addicted already!

www.exocomics.com

Super person of the week: Alex Ross

2009-12-10T14:07:00.003Z

Alex Ross was probably the first artist to "paint" a comic (certainly the first one in the mainstream circle) and today is considered one of the world’s most preeminent and well-respected comic book artists around. His first big project in the comic industry was "Marvels", the book through which I discovered this work and was totally blown away by its hyper-realistic quality and how well it worked on the comic book format.

Over 15 years after the "Marvels" debut, his work has been on dozens of book covers and pages on several publishers including DC, Marvel, Warner, Dynamite and Wizard.

www.alexrossart.com

Angelique Houtkamp

2009-12-09T18:33:00.003Z

Angelique Houtkamp has done a bit of everything, she started her artistic career as a tattooist, has worked as a dressmaker, make-up artist and bartender, ran her own jewellery company, played in bands, designed shoes, handbags and even wallpaper. But it's her paintings that make it for me, her paintings are heavily inspired by traditional old school tattoo imagery, but still full of originality and easily recognizable as her own.

www.salonserpent.com

Iron Man sketch cards

2009-12-08T13:23:00.006Z

Aw, how cute are Eric Merced's new set of Iron Man sketch cards?

View the entire set here.

www.ericmerced.com
stickfiguredancer.deviantart.com

Springfield Punx

2009-12-07T18:57:00.002Z

Springfield Punx is Dean Fraser's Simpsons fan art project, with some of his favorite comic and film characters all err.. simpsonsed.

He's been doing it for over a year now, and has drawn not only a lot of Marvel and DC celebrities, but also characters from lots of films and tv shows including Indiana Jones, Back to the future, Ghostbusters, Edward scisor hands, The Matrix, Napoleon Dynamite and Heroes. Genious!

springfieldpunx.blogspot.com
www.deantfraser.com

Joan Chito

2009-12-02T14:02:00.007Z

Illustrator and designer Joan Chito's new set of posters entitled Kids Guides features some of Majorca's main landmarks very beautifully illustrated. View the full set over at his page on behance.net.

www.behance.net/joanchito

The Everyday

2009-12-01T17:54:00.001Z

The Everyday is Adam Cadwell's online comic about.. err.. the everday. It hasn't been updated much lately (Cadwell's a busy man, working as a freelance storyboard artist and visualiser) but his site has 3 years worth of archieves of the strip and it's a lot of fun to go thru them. They are also available in paper form, printed in 3 collections from the shop in his website. Fingers crossed there will be more coming soon!

www.adamcadwell.com

Ulises Farinas' awesome lego superheroes

2009-11-29T21:45:00.002Z

New York based illustrator and cartoonist Ulises Farina has drawn both the DC and Marvel universes LEGO style. Click on the pictures for the original sizes.

www.ulisesfarinas.com

via lego diem.

The artistic method

2009-11-28T17:04:00.005Z

Very cute animation by the nice folks over at the Tubbypaws.

tubbypaws.blogspot.com

Super person of the week: Bryan Lee O'Malley

2009-11-26T18:55:00.000Z

Bryan Lee O'Malley is the creator of the super-ace comic Scott Pilgrim, which has been getting a lot of (very well deserved) attention since it first came out in 2004. The 6-book series is not even finished yet, but it is already being adapted into a movie, and I bet will be in a lot of people's "best comics of 00s" list.

Prior to Scott Pilgrim, O'Malley illustrated the Oni Press mini-series Hopeless Savages: Ground Zero, and published his first graphic novel Lost at Sea in 2003.

www.radiomaru.com
www.scottpilgrim.com

David M. Buisán

2009-11-24T17:17:00.004Z

David M. Buisán is an illustrator based in Barcelona working in a range of projects for magazines, book publishers, advertising agencies and film studios. I love all the geeky pop culture references in his work - so good!!

buisanart.com
davidmbuisan.blogspot.com

Tommy Kane's buildings illustrations

2009-11-23T17:54:00.001Z

Tommy Kane is probably more well known for his advertising work, but what really blew me away when discovering his website the other day were his postcard-style coloured pencil drawings of buildings and cityscapes. Super nice style!

tommykaneillustration.com
tommykane.blogspot.com

Andrew Fulton's take on other artists' comics

2009-11-22T14:05:00.005Z

Andrew Fulton has been drawing various characters from comics he likes, and by the looks of it, he likes a lot of my favourite comics. So far he's got Brian Ralphy's Daybreak, David Mazzucchelli's Asterios Polyp, Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan, Neil Gaiman's Sandman, Matt Forsythe's Ojingogo, Jim Woodring's Frank and a little protrait of Scott Mccloud. Awesomeness!

View the whole series on this flickr page.

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

Unmasked

2009-11-21T11:42:00.000Z

The New Yorker comic strip by Chris Ware.

See the original here.

Pigeon: Impossible

2009-11-20T15:30:00.004Z

Great 3D animated short by Lucas Martell.

www.pigeonimpossible.com

Super person of the week: Paul Grist

2009-11-19T16:50:00.007Z

I just only discovered Paul Grist a couple of months back and am now a big fan. He has had published work since the 80s, both in mainstream and small press publishers, but what is the most well known for are his tittles - the unorthodox superhero series Jack Staff and hard-boiled police series Kane, both of which he is the writer as well as the penciler and inker.

www.bigcosmiccomic.blogspot.com

Marvel papercraft

2009-11-17T16:17:00.003Z

Boxpunx is Jason Edward Harlan (aka Harlancore)'s papercraft site. There's tons of really good stuff there, but the marvel series are just TOO good. They can be viewed and downloaded here and here.

www.harlancore.com/boxpunx

Brian Despain's new show available online

2009-11-16T14:12:00.002Z

Brian Despain has a new exhibition along with John Brophy opening tonight in Seattle and the whole show is also available to be viewed online. Thank you to Roq La Rue Galler y for making it so.

www.despainart.com
www.roqlarue.com

via boing boing

Burning safari

2009-11-13T17:48:00.001Z

Awesome student project by Florent de La Taille, Jeanne Irzenski, Vincent Aupetit, Claude-William Trébutien, Maxime Maleo and Aurélien Prédal. The video is available as a free dowload, along with
the characters initial sketches and videos of the making off over at burningsafari.com.

www.burningsafari.com

Super person of the week: Jeff Soto

2009-11-12T13:53:00.005Z

Mixing graffiti influences with fine art and using toys, skateboarding, hip-hop and popular culture as inspiration, Jeff Soto is another big name in the whole lowbrow movement in California.

He's had numberless exhibitions and shows over the past years, and his some of his work's been compiled into a couple of books - Potato stamps (now sold out) and Storm Clouds.

www.jeffsoto.com
www.potatostamp.com
www.myspace.com/jeffsoto

Danny Zabbal

2009-11-11T17:21:00.004Z

I have been meaning to post about Danny Zabbal for a while - He is the author of the weekly webcomic Journey in the Sixth Dimension and a freelance illustrator and cartoonist. His flickr set of oddball superheroes puts a smile on my face anyday.

www.dannyzabbal.com
www.flickr.com/photos/dannyzabbal

Emma Kelly

2009-11-10T18:31:00.007Z

How good are these highly-detailed, beautifully-drawn illustrations by Emma Kelly?

www.iliketodrawthings.com

3D pixel art

2009-11-07T13:07:00.002Z

I'm loving the 3D pixel illustrations Metin Seven has been posting on LCS. He has a growing gallery of the images on his website, ranging from alternative Pixar movie posters and cartoon characters to classic 8-bit video games. Great stuff!!

www.sevensheaven.nl
www.flickr.com/photos/sevensheaven

Skhizein

2009-11-06T14:28:00.001Z

Very unique and compelling short film by Jérémy Clapin.

www.skhizein.com
www.muiye.com

Super person of the week: Jacob Borshard

2009-11-05T11:58:00.001Z

Jacob Borshard is an illustrator, musician, and general awesomeness-maker based in Austin. I can't really express how much of a genius I think this man is, but don't take my word for it, check out his comics, t-shirts designs, prints and music, and see for yourself.

Fact magazine had a very nice feature on him a couple of months back. It's more focused more on his music rather than illustration work, but a very nice read anyway. Check it out here.

www.creebobby.com

Ming Doyle

2009-11-04T14:32:00.006Z

I don't know how I could have missed Ming Doyle's work for this long. She's had a lot of work out there in the past couple of years, including stuff for Image comics, Boom! Studios and Tokyopop. Awesome style!

www.mingdoyle.com

Brian's Hellboy Sketchbook

2009-11-03T14:34:00.003Z

When doing a google search for a specific Hellboy cover the other day, I came across Brian's hellboy sketchbook flickr set. As the name suggests, the picture gallery is a personall collection of Hellboy commissions by lots of great artists like James Kochalka, Dave Crosland, Skottie Young, Cameron Stewart, Humberto Ramos, Erik Larsen and lots lots more.

Thank you to Brian Hall for sharing his collection on flickr.

www.flickr.com/photos/transmission3000/sets/72157602065053540

Some people

2009-11-02T14:03:00.004Z

Brilliant mini-comic by Luke Pearson. View the complete version here.

mumblingidiot.deviantart.com
thatlukeperson.blogspot.com

Chainsaw Maid

2009-10-31T12:21:00.002Z

Awesome zombie claymation by Takena Nagao.

www.youtube.com/user/takena

Super person of the week: Paul Duffield

2009-10-29T18:00:00.002Z

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

2009-10-28T14:09:00.008Z

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

2009-10-27T17:09:00.002Z

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

2009-10-26T16:44:00.004Z

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

2009-10-24T12:35:00.003+01:00

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

2009-10-22T14:03:00.005+01:00

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

2009-10-21T16:46:00.004+01:00

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

2009-10-20T13:42:00.004+01:00

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

lucylou.livejournal.com

Andy Awesome

2009-10-19T13:08:00.001+01:00

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

2009-10-17T15:54:00.006+01:00

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

Timelapse aerosol graffiti promo video for Watchmen

2009-10-16T09:33:00.003+01:00

Time lapse aerosol graffiti promo video commissioned by Paramount for the London premiere of 'Watchmen', by End of the line artists: Bleach, Probs, Busk and Zadok.

www.flickr.com/photos/endoftheline

Super person of the week: Audrey Kawasaki

2009-10-15T10:51:00.007+01:00

Audrey Kawasaki is well known for her portrayals of young, beautiful girls in a very distinctive style that has been described as a fusion of Manga and Art Nouveau. Generally using oil on wooden canvas, her paintings strike as dreamy, delicate imagery that live in a world of their own. She's had her work published in a few books, designed book covers, gelaskins and has had more exhibitions than I could count.

Her online journal is frequently updated with pictures of new work, pieces in progress and information about shows.

www.audrey-kawasaki.com
www.myspace.com/audreykawa
i-seldom-do.livejournal.com

Portraits of Hackney

2009-10-14T14:08:00.012+01:00

London based illustrator Thorsten Sideboard has made his submission to the Observer's Graphic Short Story Competition available online. Entitled "Hackney: The Comic", that's pretty much what it is - beautifully illustrated portraits of Hackney and its topography, set to a very loose, minimal, almost hypnagogic narrative. VERY impressive!

View the whole thing here.

drawingb0ard.blogspot.com

Will Kirby

2009-10-13T15:41:00.005+01:00

Another nice find at BICS was Will Kirby. He has a very unique and distinctive style and both his printed comics and posters as well as all the stuff he has available online look really beautiful. Well worth checking out!

chamonkee.livejournal.com

Punks in space

2009-10-12T15:45:00.005+01:00

I picked up some really good comics at BICS the other day and one of the highlights for me was Harry Shotton's Punks in Space. The tittle is pretty self-descriptive - punk kids, gaffertaped spacesuits, a lot of beer, and a pretty fun, solid storyline to back it all up.

The whole series (6 issues) is available on his website for a mere £7. Highly recommended!

www.harryshotton.com
www.myspace.com/voodoo_scribbler

Must drink more milk!!!

2009-10-09T15:18:00.001+01:00

Russian Dolls is one of the great animations created as part of BC Dairy Foundation's advertising campaign "Must drink more milk".

www.mustdrinkmoremilk.com
www.youtube.com/user/milkvids

Super person of the week: Ryan Ottley

2009-10-08T09:47:00.003+01:00

Ryan Ottley is best known for his work on Invincible, the first and most popular superhero tittle on Image Comics. Invincible was created and originally drawn by Cory Walker, but Ottley assumed the art duties on issue 8 and has been pencilling ever since.

He is also the artist and co-creator of Ted Noodleman: Bicycle Delivery Boy, which started as a webcomic and got published in 2005 (and through which Robert Kirkman discovered his work and got him on board Image Comics drawing Invicible), OZF5: Gale Force, and the much more recent Death Grub, a one off story also on Image.

His website is updated regularly with lots of drawings and sketches, both of stuff he's working on at the time as well as lots of random bits and pieces he draws just for fun.

www.ryanottley.com

Perfecting Loneliness in 24 hours

2009-10-07T09:37:00.002+01:00

24 hour comics day took place last saturday and I bet there are lots of great stuff online by now. The first one I came across was Emi Lenox's "Genny gains superpowers", featuring Genny and Faith, the characters on Emi's webcomic Perfecting Loneliness. Soooooooooo good!

gennyfaith.blogspot.com

President Awesome

2009-10-06T09:33:00.005+01:00

President Awesome is a political webcomic about the US president Barack Obama, written by Dean Trippe and illustrated by Evan Bryce. There's only a handful of pages up at the moment, but they are super amazing.

www.presidentawesome.com

Kristian Hammerstad

2009-10-05T13:11:00.005+01:00

Norwegian artist Kristian Hammerstad creates some great monster drawings. I couldn't find much information about him online, but his website features a brilliant collection of fun, bright coloured, Charles Burns-eque drawings and posters.

www.kristianhammerstad.com

Superflat First Love by Takashi Murakami

2009-10-03T13:14:00.001+01:00

Takashi Murakami's ace short video for Louis Vuitton.

Yay! for pin ups boys!

2009-10-02T16:00:00.000+01:00

Amongst lots of other great stuff, Davario often posts some awesome male pin-up drawings on his livejournal blog. It's great to see somebody drawing good looking guys just for the sake of it, rather than the old girl-on-a-bikini cliche.

davario.livejournal.com

Super person of the week: Jim Woodring

2009-10-01T15:15:00.006+01:00

I don't even know where to start on Jim Woodring. His work is one of a kind. Surreal and dreamlike, often wordless and visually astonishing, it portraits weird worlds, anthropomorphic and odd shaped characters in whimsically strange situtations.

With his first publications dating back from the early eighties, there's tons available these days, from the excellent large collection of books on fantagraphics, some japanese publications and limited runs on presspop to prints, original paintings and vinyl toys.

www.jimwoodring.com

Jason Levesque

2009-09-30T13:48:00.008+01:00

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

2009-09-29T16:47:00.005+01:00

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

2009-09-28T14:19:00.007+01:00

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!!!

2009-09-26T11:55:00.003+01:00

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

2009-09-24T13:35:00.008+01:00

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

2009-09-23T15:00:00.007+01:00

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

2009-09-22T16:08:00.005+01:00

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

2009-09-21T13:43:00.004+01:00

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

2009-09-19T13:57:00.011+01:00

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

2009-09-18T07:42:00.001+01:00

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

Super person of the week: Sam Flores

2009-09-17T17:02:00.009+01:00

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

2009-09-15T13:54:00.005+01:00

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

2009-09-14T18:54:00.006+01:00

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

2009-09-13T23:32:00.010+01:00

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

2009-09-09T15:03:00.008+01:00

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

2009-09-08T14:52:00.004+01:00

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

2009-09-07T15:08:00.014+01:00

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!

2009-09-05T13:00:00.009+01:00

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

2009-09-03T23:02:00.004+01:00

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

Neill Cameron's A to Z of Awesomeness

2009-09-02T20:55:00.004+01:00

Over the summer, illustrator Neill Cameron drew something awesome for each letter of the alphabet, taking suggestions from readers of his blog and facebook friends.

My favourite's got to be W, which is for Wolverine wishing wonder woman wasn't wasted! Heh, sooo good!

The last illustration (Z for ZZ Top Zapping Zombies) was up in July, and now Neill compiled the whole series on a poster, got some copies printed, and made it available to order on his website.

www.neillcameron.com
neillcameron.blogspot.com

Welcome to my life

2009-09-02T00:11:00.003+01:00

Amazing pencil-animated documentary about a family of monsters trying to lead a normal american life by Californian artist Elizabeth Ito.

Watch more of Elizabeth's awesomenesses here.

It's a robot making day!

2009-08-31T12:52:00.006+01:00

It looks like Robo-t.com, home to loads of free paper robot models, is long gone now, but a lot of the site content is still up and running here, with preview pictures, printable paper models and full instructions of how to assemble your own personal robots.

Check it out and get working!

Super Person of the week: Jason

2009-08-27T12:07:00.010+01:00

With most of his work now translated and published on Fantagraphics, Jason has become one of the most popular European artists over the past years. Usually with no dialogues, anthropomorphic characters and using a very minimal drawing style, his novels definitly deserve all the attention they've been getting.

Some of my personal favourites are Sshhhh!, The Living and hte dead and Why are you doing this?

Check more of his work at www.fantagraphics.com.

Matthew The Horse

2009-08-25T00:46:00.009+01:00

I came across Matthew The Horse through an album cover he recently designed for HPLL. The portfolio on his website goes from music and art posters to illustrations for newspapers and magazines, everything in a very weird and unique style.

www.matthewthehorse.co.uk

Atom Eve's own book!!!!

2009-08-24T23:55:00.005+01:00

Not only is Invincible one of my favourite super-hero comics, but if if I could pick a single character (from any given universe) to be for a day, I'd pick Atom Eve. And now I hear there will be a "Invicible presents Atom Eve Collected Edition" out in two days. Oh, excitment!!!

The book collects two single issues that came out a while ago, and even though it's not written by (Invincible creator) Robert Kirkman, and the art is not by Ryan Ottley, I still can't wait to get my hands on it.

The first five pages are available to preview now. Woot!

Paris Journal

2009-08-22T12:37:00.004+01:00

Chicago based illustrator Lucy Knisley has just posted the last couple of pages of the diaries she kept while on holidays in Paris last week. I don't even like Paris, but this makes me want to go there too. So nice!

Check the whole Paris journal here.

Bacardi commercials by PES

2009-08-21T23:37:00.002+01:00

PESfilm seems to always get better and better, their Western spaghetti short is one of the best stop motion animations ever, and now they have a new series of commercials for bacardi up on youtube that are just as good. In the four mini-shorts available at the moment, the bacardi bottle comes as a rocket, a submarine, a train and a yacht. Sooo good!!