Margaux Motin (author of the lovely looking, very funny sounding But I Really Wanted To Be An Anthropologist) cover for Fluide.G mag – from the SelfMadeHero blog:

The first thing he’s posted since October 2011…. Paul Pope’s Jedi from 2011:

Just one from a series of Chris Weston commissions over at 2000AD Online:

Mick McMahon commission pencils…

Tony Moore… Hellboy Versus Popeye….

I may be getting a little tired of Charles Paul Wilson‘s Pooh style stuff…. but this was too much fun to pass up (Via Ashcan All-Stars):

Having said that, a quick look at his Deviant art page sends me looking at “The Stuff Of Legend” comic that he provides pencils for. Looks very nice, another to go on the long, long list of stuff to look at!

Who Is Rupert Ray? – Luke Pearson: “A drawing I did for the exhibition ‘Who is Rupert Ray?’, an exhibition for the launch of ‘Rupert Ray’, a new agency founded by Alex Maclean and Caroline Matthews”

Colleen Coover – pre order sketch for Emerald City and one lucky punter:

A wonderful series, way back when…. ad from 1990, courtesy Mr Phil:

Tyranus: Krak:

Rafael Grampa (via Warren Ellis): “Rafael Grampa’s been producing some fine covers lately, but, for my money, none finer than this piece for Brian Wood & Kristian Donaldson’s new comics project at Dark Horse, THE MASSIVE.  Colours by Dave Stewart.”

Rian Hughes DC Merchandise work… from his FB:

The What Not collaborative blog is on a film kick right now…. Dave Johnson does Carrie:

Francesco Francavilla does something about a shark:

Seven artists involved: Waste, Cottonmouth (RichT) , Guy McKinley, Klingatron, Robert Ball, Smug, and WJC looking at the ideas of being someone else, hero, villain, whatever…. the artwork is over at the Alter Ego Facebook page. But I figured you could cope with a piece from each here….

Klingatron

Waste

Guy McKinley

Cottonmouth - RichT

Smug

WJC

… and finally Robert Ball, whose first foray into superhero comics has had immediate results…

“After all this mucking about with superheroes and the like, I was contacted by comic creator Raffaele Ienco about drawing a pin-up for his comic book ‘Epic Kill’ from Image comics. As the title suggests, this ain’t Emily Bronte – the female protagonist basically killing anything that moves in a variety of inventive ways. Thanks to Raffaele for chancing his arm on a complete unkown, this picture will appear in the July issue of Epic Kill, in all good comic shops etc etc…”

Here’s that pin-up, and you can get Epic Kill here.

And if you want to see more – character designs here. Love the expression on Black Widow’s face.

From David Lloyd’s FB:

“I’m at Kapow this weekend. I could put a link here for that, but you’ve only got to Google that event – power-wasting though that is – to go there, and I want to use a pic here to point you to what I’m proud to be previewing there – a new EXCLUSIVELY digital comics art magazine which I am in the process of putting together with some of the very finest talents I know here in the UK, in the US, and in Europe. Can’t give you much detail on it here, nor will I be able to clue everyone in on it completely tomorrow, or the day after that, but believe me, all you FB buddies will be the very first to know when we can get the train running on the rails.”

Well, there’s certainly at least one dinosaur in it. More details as and when. But hell, it’s David Lloyd, got to be interesting.

12 Drawings a Day – 12 Dessins par Jour from Denis Chapon on Vimeo.

Recently, Schuiten has been in the news with new productions that are perfect examples of this “one extra step”. First, there was the stamp he designed for the Belgian Post Office to commemorate the centennial of the Titanic disaster. It wasn’t Schuiten’s first assignment for the Post Office – in the past he designed stamps commemorating information scientist Paul Otlet, designer Henry Van de Velde and the Belgian endeavours on the Antarctic continent. This time, though, he took it one step ahead, by designing two stamps as a perfect stereogram. When looked at using a special viewer (which is included in the package), the stamps melt together to form an exquisite 3D rendition of the ship’s final hours.

Schuiten’s most recent book, La Douce, takes this even one step further. The book is one long ode to the Type 12 Atlantic, a belgian-built locomotive that was used around the middle of the Twentieth Century. Five locos of this type were built, but only one survived the sixties, largely thanks to railway men who thought it was too beautiful a machine to just scrap. Schuiten discovered the locomotive while designing the Brussels Railway Museum, which is slated to open in 2014, and immediately fell in love with it. The problem with the comic format, though, is that you can only suggest movement, and a such, it is rather a limited medium to use for a celebration of a machine that was essentially built for speed.

For that reason, Schuiten collaborated with 3D visualisation specialists Dassault Systemes to embed movement and speed in the comic. Dassault created a number of splendid 3D animations, that the reader can call up by holding the book up to any webcam. Thanks to Schuiten’s eye for detail, though, the animations are not just some kind of DVD extra, but play an actual role in the story itself.

As that other great Belgian graphic designer, Ever Meulen, said so many years ago, “Use the mood of the past to rewire your brain for the future”. François Schuiten is doing just that.

The Titanic stamps are available from the BPost website; La Douce was published recently by Casterman, and costs 18 Euros.

Craig Thompson does a little of Mike Mignola’s Hellboy (Via Aw Yeah Comics)

Jonathan Edwards has this “Happy Hour” print for sale.

David Hitchcock‘s Batman from many years ago: “Way back when (around 12 years ago I reckon) I did this victorian Batman, if was a for an idea I was going to submit to DC, it was rejected by Bob Wayne who I met at a show. Anyhow, I gave the original art to the show’s charity auction…and lo and behold it sold for about £200, think it was one of the highest single peices that sold in the auction… wish I kept it myself now ;)” (Via Hitchcock’s FB)

There’s a Thor of this as well, but Coulson’s the best … Matt Kaufenberg:

Francesco Francavilla – Avengers, the Earth’s First Heroes:

Dan McDaid (Via Aw Yeah Comics)

Power Man by Toby Cypress: (Via, and more at, Aw Yeah Comics)

Matt Kindt’s Covered version of X-Men #1:

Ashley Wood’s Joker & Harley (Via Aw Yeah Comics)

Noelle Stevenson… Avengers:

Art by Kerry Callan, and here’s the plot by Chris Sims:

For years, the Riddler has been one of Batman’s deadliest foes, but when ace rapper Jay-Z comes to Gotham City to perform at one of Bruce Wayne’s charity events, he sets his sights on a new target! Now, the Prince of Puzzles plots to put Jay-Z’s legendary ability to survive 99 simultaneous problems to the test with a sinister deathtrap designed to destroy the Dark Knight himself!

Will Batman be able to save his friend from nearly a hundred deadly snares set to go off at once, or will this be the Riddler’s greatest triumph? Will Jay-Z prove himself to be a hustler, homie, or a customer, crony? Brush the dirt off your shoulder and strap yourself in for the greatest team-up of all as the World’s Greatest Detective and the Best Rapper Alive face… ”The 99 Problems!”

There are many more of these, and dammit, they’re all good – here’s the lot.

Tom at The Comics Reporter had an excellent roundup, but here’s just a little of the pictures I’ve seen this week:

(Paul Harrison Davies – part of a collection of tributes at The Mooks Tumblr)

(Dan Hipp)

(Evan Doc Shaner)

(Sarah McIntyre)

(Fred Blunt)

(Mike Maihack)

And Maihack’s piece pointed me in the direction of the Terrible Yellow Eyes blog, a tribute to Sendak that ended in 2012, with added poignancy now….. here’s just a sampling, but really, get over there and look at more:

(Josh Holland)

(Harris Hammersmith)

(Aurian Redson)

(Alan Cook)

In addition, The Comics Journal has a series of tribute here, including these pics:

(Megan Kelso)

(Michael Deforge)

…. and finally… Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are meets The Avengers:

(Agarthan Guide, via Buzzfeed)

The Nao Of Brown by Glyn Dillon is out in September 2012 from SelfMadeHero. It looks rather special

“Things aren’t so black and white after all.”

“Nao Brown is ‘Hafu’: half Japanese, half English. She’s 28 and suffers with OCD, but not the hand-washing, overly tidy type that people joke about. Nao suffers from violent morbid obsessions and a racing, unruly mind. She works part time in a ‘designer’ vinyl toy shop, whilst struggling to get her own design and illustration career off the ground. She’s looking for love – the perfect love. But in meeting the man of her dreams, she realises that… dreams can be quite weird. Nao meditates in an attempt to quieten her mind and open her heart and it’s through this that she comes to realise that things aren’t so black and white after all. In fact, they’re much more… brown.”

Following a link from somewhere completely unrelated I stumbled across Dillon’s yFrog page, which just happens to have a lot of preview images, panels, preliminary art and sketches from Nao.

Here’s a few collected images from Dillon’s Twitter yfrog set…. and this is why we’re all excited: