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Sam Bosma, you magnificent bastard.

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One of my short stories.

Ted Parker is an international man of mystery, whose work exhibits extreme joy in the most strange and comical of situations. This illustration, titled Jungle Coffee, was created to promote The Village Coffee and Music in Utrecht, Netherlands. Regardless of the subject matter, whether it be dogs smoking, lions dancing, or people and animals engaging in pure rowdiness together, one thing is for sure - Ted’s work is sure to put a big smile on your face.

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Can’t wait for this — Beauty is Embarrassing, a documentary on artist Wayne White.

Now-successful children’s illustrator Brian Biggs has been posting a strip a day from his 1987 college newspaper comic strip Roommates.

Brian writes:

With twenty-five years of hindsight, it’s now evident to me that these strips are pretty awful. The humor is dumb, the drawings are dumber, and the whole idea was fairly derivative of what was my favorite strip at the time, Berke Breathed’s Bloom County. To a lesser extent I ripped off Bill Watterson’s Calvin & Hobbes and Dan Piraro’s Bizarro whenever I could. I was eighteen years old when the strip began, nineteen years old when it ended, and ambitious as hell. Nevertheless, they’re my first published work and I’ll always love them.

We’re enjoying the energetic and structured pencil work from Philipp Zurmöhle. Based in Hannover, Germany, Philipp works as graphic designer for apparel at Adidas Performance, while also working on his own illustration and design projects. His work is a real mixture, balancing a more digital style with his pencil drawings. He tells us more.

My artworks have recently moved away from abstract graffiti-inspired drawings to more figurative ones. Those often show monkeys or other animals in a tribal or cult-like situation. They tend to have a vigorous expression, that contrasts with their almost soulless eyes. I mostly use pencil, ink and aquarelle on big sheets of paper. 

For my commercial illustrative work, I use a combination of hand drawn elements and vector forms. I don’t like the very digital outlook of images, so I try to make all them look a bit more tangible.

© Philipp Zurmöhle, 2012

 

Comics Are a Man’s World, by Faith Erin Hicks

Hugo Pratt Interview (en français). I’m not certain when this was shot exactly.

He talks here about how comics are seriously hard work, if you’re doing it right, and about the intense research he’d perform whenever embarking on a new project. 

I’ve become a little obsessed with Pratt since arriving here (the apartment we’re staying in has, among many other wonderful books, 13 issues of Pratt’s Corto Maltese, which are helping me learn Spanish!), especially since I realized he also created “Jesuit Joe”, a sort of Native American Robin Hood, riding around the “frozen Canadian North” wearing a stolen RCMP jacket. Boss!

Check out Montreal street artist collective, En Masse. Since 2009 they’ve been creating intricate collaborative black + white murals on whatever surface they could find around town and now they’re doing international art shows and museum gigs. Here’s a video of their outdoor contribution to Art Basel in Miami last month.

En Masse @ Miami MMXI - Part Two from Fred Caron on Vimeo.

More videos of their work here.

The Florida-based illustrator and designer, Justin Mezzell, has a nice collection of work up on his site. I really dig his flat, straight-forward layouts working together with bright colors and warm textures. That topo-style map ampersand up there is pretty rad.

See more in-progress work at Justin’s Dribbble.

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Check out Dimanche (“Sunday”) - by young Quebec animator Patrick Doyon. This film is one of the Oscar nominees for Best Animated Short this year.

Check out his other short, Square Roots here).

Dimanche is a funny and stylish portrait of mid-century Quebec with a surreal ending. You can feel the influence of current Quebec comic book artists like Janice Nadeau and Philippe Girard.

Now you can order wedding invitations with beautiful water color illustrations by Stina Persson. Visit Wedding Paper Divas to have a look! Click here to view article

From the AT&T Archives:

Jim Henson made this film in 1963 for The Bell System. Specifically, it was made for an elite seminar given for business owners, on the then-brand-new topic — Data Communications.

Gustav Dejert has completed a series of illustrations for Stödlinjen, the Swedish national helpline for gamblers. Browse their website here. Click here to view article

Click through for some beautiful spreads from the book Everyone Likes to Draw by V. Legkobit.