Hey, wow, look at Star Wars given the Tomer Hanuka treatment! It’s an officially licensed work as described on Tomer’s blog post, and Tomer sent a note over that you can now buy the screen printed poster here.
I love this idea that Angie Wang (previously mentioned here) has been producing: a speculative fashion blog. In other words she designs and illustrates outfits from the future with no regard for “budget, sense, or reality” according to her blog, Wangie. Also check out her regular blog, and illustration website.
I’m hanging my head in shame realizing I haven’t posted about Hellen Jo’s art before because I’ve definitely been eyeballing it. Repeatedly. I searched in the archives for the last time I posted about it and can’t find it so I guess I didn’t. You savvy cats out there will already be aware of Hellen’s fantastic drawings and humor, because it is popping up everywhere like in those weird Post-it gallery shows and Deforge’s and Sands’ Lady Gaga fanzine, Prison For Bitches, etc… she even did one of my favorite jokes on the cover of Electric Ant: subtle extra fingers.
Anyway, Hellen Jo is a super talent and she has brush skills to envy. Check her website, blog, and Flickr.
Gregory Jacobsen sent over a note to check out his new series of drawings on his blog. But, you should be warned that besides these lovely rotting fruit/human suggestive flesh piles posted above, there are numerous squirting, dripping, evacuating orifices and scenes of cartoonish sexual debauchery in detailed progress depicted in the drawings. Which isn’t really a big deal unless you are subscribing to the belief that humanity is somehow distinctly separate from and better than the beastly, fat-encrusted, scenes dripping from Jacobsen’s mindspace, and thus you may be shocked at the depravity. On the other hand if you believe that humanity is generally not unlike the average orangoutang chewing its raw monkey-meat dinner and celebrating its weird butt, then get into the art on the portfolio site. And if you ever wanted to hear music that sounds like how the paintings look, give a listen to Jacobsen’s group here.
You can look at Edward Kinsella III’s illustration portfolio here but of course sketchbook work always fascinates me more and that’s over here.
Ryan Haywood has got some colorful illustrations up on his portfolio website.
Hello internet! Jay Sacher here with a quick plug for your upcoming weekend leisure time. Should you be in San Diego, swing by the Chronicle Books booth, where we will be hosting an exclusive debut of James Jean’s exquisite new release, RIFT. Chronicle drop-shipped a limited number of advance copies to San Diego, and James will be signing them on Saturday–details below. Hope to see you there!
James Jean Signing Rift
San Diego Comic Con International
Saturday July 24th, 2010
Autograph Area AA21, 12:00-1:00PM
Look at the artwork from Australian Ben Goss on his illustration site, design site, and of course, blog. He lives and works in Oslo, Norway.
Bjorn Rune Lie has a portfolio here and blog here where you can get a much better look at the details of his illustrations.
Despite already being covered in every magazine in the world, the people of POKETO knew that they still desired to reach out to the specific, highly-intelligent, cartoony art blog enthusiast, which of course is you, dear reader. Consequently, they sent over samples of the wallets that they produce featuring two artists that we know and love, Jon Vermilyea (previously posted here) and Matt Furie (previously posted here and many more). Each wallet has artwork sewn into a clear plastic body with plastic pockets that could handle a modest amount of cash, cards and doodads. Besides wallets, POKETO produces a lot of products and works with a large group of artists that are all worth investigating further.
