Mick Mcmahon posts up some Roy Of The Rovers pages and apologise for them (no need, no need). They’re from the monthly Roy Of The Rovers redo from the 90s- I wrote more on that here.

James Hance‘s Tank Girl/Star Wars mash-up. (Via Kardwell)

Shouldn’t really need to tell you who – Moebius (Lulu Bonanza)

I Can? You Can! Who Can? Iron Man! by drfaustusau (Via TT&RPC)

Dan McDaid – D-Man (Via Aw Yeah Comics)

“Tyrannosaurus Bats” by Dustin Harbin (Via Roast Unicorn):

Latest stuff from Ninjaink (we mentioned Timothy Lim last with his great Peter and Uncle Ben strip here) are these ace Peter and Venom pieces, as loving tributes to Bill Watterson…

Stupid superpower #3 from Sarah McIntyre, featuring studiomate Gary Northfield:

Daredevil by Chris Samnee (Aw Yeah Comics)

Phil Noto:

Why have I never seen this before? Or if I have seen it before, why is my memory so bad? Dustin Weaver and Paul Tobin: The Adventures of Thing Thing. Page 1 of 2. (Via Lulu Bonanza)

“This was mine and Paul Tobin’s homage to Tintin and Herge that was published in Fantastic Four Giant-Size Adventures #1.”

This and this from Dave Sim’s Glamourpuss #2 (2008)

Said it before, will say it again, one of the finest artists out there, even when, as here, deconstructing and copying someone else’s style for his own purpose.

Eclipse Comics promotional ad featuring Tales of the Beanworld by Larry Marder,Cynicalman by Matt Feazell, and Floyd Farland by Chris Ware, 1987:

Promotional image for The Jam by Bernie Mireault, 1989.

Promotional ad for Stray Bullets #1 by David Lapham, 1995.

Promotional ad for Baker Street #5 by Guy Davis, 1990.

But it’s certainly not all ads and promo pieces. There’s some lovely rare stuff as well:

Rare art of the day: Cartoon diary jam page by Joe Matt and Bernie Mireault, 1988. Not reprinted in Peepshow collection.

Much more at The Adventures Of Mr. Phil – bookmark it now!

“Trese is a supernatural series starring a female investigator who steps in to protect the streets of Manilla when the police can’t deal with the supernatural weirdness that appears. Produced by Budjette Tan andKajo Baldisimo, this Filipino book does so much right it’s practically scandalous we haven’t heard more about it here in the UK.”

Looking at Budjette’s Trese blog, I spotted these pieces by Kajo, illustrating a couple of slightly unlikely team-ups for Manilla’s finest:

“A year or so ago, I asked Kajo if he was ever going to make a new portfolio to show to DC and Marvel editors. He said he wanted to do a story where Trese teams-up with Batman and Wolverine and all the action will happen in Manila. So, in one of my notebooks is an outline for that very short story, but we got busy with our dayjobs and finishing Book4, and I forgot all about it. Today, Kajo sent me these sketches based on a story he’s never read and yet he drew one of the scenes that was in my head. (But, as usual, Kajo comes up with an even better idea and he dressed up Wolverine in a barong tagalog!)”

And the famous Dali original (I think this was the first ‘proper’ art print I ever had on my wall as a young teen, replacing the previous batch of posters I had in my room, always liked it) …

And how cool is John Mattos’s reworking of Pablo Picasso’s Three Musicians …

Restyled into the musicians from the famous Cantina Band scene in Star Wars: A New Hope …

There’s a pile more on the Tor blog, go and have a look. (tip of the hat to BoingBoing for the link)

By Sam Vanallemeersch

Nobrow Press

I’m just not the right person to appreciate this.

I’m a comics guy, and my art tastes veer strongly to the sort of art that looks great but does so in service to a story.

So basically Big Mother, as an A3 collection of artwork by Belgian artist Vanallemeersch just leaves me cold. Attractive in its way, but in no way worthy of this treatment.

Vanallemeersch operates under his own name and two aliases; the visually tight and controlled Kolchoz and the mania of Solchoz – and here in Big Mother it’s all definitely Solchoz – panaramas, pencil works, lots of colours – flat and washes.

So yes, it’s huge, yes it’s colourful, and yes the artwork is a littlemore comics-ish – but effectively it’s just the same thing as those Drawn & Quarterly petit livres I slated a while back for being a waste of time (see this one - Nogoodniks).

I didn’t like those much at all. This I like a little more, but honestly? Give me comics.

And that’s my problem with it – as illustration, it’s alright, but nothing I can’t see all the time at numerous websites (including our own) every week. As a package it’s impressive through its size – but is that merely painting it with the brush of artistic pretension? Or to justify the price of £18 for 23 pages of content + cover?

So if you do have £18 burning a hole in your pocket – try The Wrong Place – beautiful, colourful art and a great comic story. Or the new Joost Swarte book – beautiful illustration, AND a master of comic art.

Batman & Joker – Time-lapse Painting by Stefan Eriksson from Stefan Eriksson on Vimeo.