Art

The New Yorker has totally been on a cartoonist cover tear lately, with Joost Swarte, Daniel Clowes and now Ivan Brunetti. Who's next???

While your recovering from the emotional overload of last night's Lost finale, you can say goodbye just a little more with this interactive guide to all the characters and how they died from the National Post's Steven Murray, a.k.a. Chip Zdarsky.

It's sort of the worst kept secret in comics that there will be a second Strange Tales anthology from Marvel, featuring more indie cartoonists presenting their takes on classic Marvel characters. The latest cartoonist to let the cat out of the bag is Farel Dalrymple who posted this excellent panel from a Spider-Man story.

GIRL COMICS #2 is out this week (a little late) and Faith Erin Hicks' Wolverine comic provides a pleasing preview.

This week's New Yorker has a familiar cover artist.

Morse's cover for THEM! in progress. And because you can never get enough Scott Morse, here is his cover for Strange Science Fantasy from...

Until a bigger version of this shows up, it will have to do. This is, to our knowledge, the first New Yorker cover to...

Spanish agent/translator David Macho Gomez has just launched his long-threatened website for his stable of artists, spanishinq.com. It's no secret that Spanish artists have made a huge impression in the American comics scene over the last decade or so, and thanks to this website you can peruse galleries of work by artists like

At Eclectic Micks , Declan Shalvey takes a crack at Roscoe from Night Owls by Peter and Bobby Timony ,

In regard to embodying his own dynamic artistic sensibilities, perhaps the only pop culture artist who could give Frank Frazetta a run for his money was Jack Kirby. These two poets of force and motion so intuitively understood the fantasies they were drawing that each established the style that would forever define their respective genres: the superhero in action for Kirby, the barbarian in action for Frazetta.

UPDATE: We are sad to confirm via Frazetta's agent Robert Pistella that the artist passed away this afternoon in a hospital near his home. The cause of death was a stroke. Funeral arrangements will be announced shortly.

We're not the world's SMALLLEST Johnny Ryan fan but... when he nails it, he nails it. Via Flog .