Art

Yessss! The Art of the Venture Brothers will be a huge collection of original artwork, character designs, storyboards, painted backgrounds, and props from every episode of The Venture Bros. with accompanying commentary on the development of the series from cocreators Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer. And as you know, those guys can commentate with the best of them. If you clicked the above link, you will have seen the list price is $39.99. Patton Oswalt pens a foreword. 


Comics veteran Paul Smith—X-Men, Leave it to Chance and The Rocketeer— has a website with lots of art to keep you busy for ages. Smith...

Lumberjanes is a new comic from Boom! that came out yesterday and seems aimed squarely at the Adventure Time/Tumblr/Cutecore comics audience, with a story...

DC has been doing themed variant cover months such as the recent Steampunk on, and in June it's Bombshells based on artist Ant Lucia's...

Comic Sans is the worst thing in history, and like many horrible things in history, its growth has spread unchecked, even marking the Papacy...

Dorkly is a sister site of College Humor that offers a lot of comics and gaming-related humor, but in a positive, not mean spirited, way. They're ramping up a lot of their offerings including launching a a series of events based around nerd-centric gatherings. One of the first is the Dorkly Fan Art Expo , where fan art will be displayed at C2E2 April 25-27.

We noted the other day that a new art dealer—Felix Comic Art— was offering rarely seen pages from Bryan Lee O' Malley's Scott Pilgrim...

Speaking of Marvel and diversity, in 2002, Marvel published a Cage mini written by Brian Azzarello with art by Richard Corben. It was rough,...

Felix Lu writes to tell us he's just opened Felix Comic Art, as art rep for Garry Brown, Nick Dragotta, Chris Mooneyham, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Nick Pitarra, Riley Rossmo, Cody Schibi,...

So this is why God gave us the internet: Todd Spence created these True Detective homages in the form of Hardy Boys detective novel covers. More in the link.

Above art by Jill Bauman, a World Fantasy Award nominated artist who specializes in horror and fantasy. Bauman has a whole set of cat holiday paintings in the link. Confession: back in the day I had a bunch of these prints hanging up in my office at Vertigo. Bauman is an accomplished artist but I find these cats a bit more disturbing than endearing! I'm not sure if that was the intent or not, but one thing is certain: YOU CAN'T LOOK AWAY.