Art

Ben Towle is at it again, organizing another alphabetical tour through some delightful category. Last time it was fantastic beasts; this time, it's fictional characters, and it's called AlphaBooks. Towle kicks it off with A is for Captain Ahab and a quote on his blog fromMoby Dick: The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.

Danny Hellman—one of the signature art styles in the New York illustration world until that went kerflooey. The Holy Yost has a shout-out.

Artist John Cebollero has a new sketchbook out called DEEP DRAG. IF you're a fan of deeply caustic Will Elder/Richard Corben-inspired comics art, Cebollero is the man for you.

By J. M. Walter, via Cartoon Brew.

DAREDEVIL continues to be the superhero book that proves that "nice art" can be better than "house style" as Mike Allred takes over for an issue. Mark Waid continues to write.

Daniel Best is at it again, this time with the decades-spanning story of Joe Simons's stolen artwork and a subsequent investigation by the FBI:

Better late than never! Please at least scroll through this (very incomplete) listing of new books out at MoCCA and just look at the pictures if nothing els.e There are some pretty amazing books coming out that haven't gotten that much press, so I think it's wroth your while.

The link is probably NSFW and some of the pieces are VERY disturbing. And mesmerizing.

Having torn through politicians and teen idols, Bluewater is launching a new biographical comics series, this one focusing on great artists like Vincent Van Gogh and Pablo Picasso. The series marks a new partnership between comic-book publisher and German artist Willi Bloess (German: Willie Blöß) and Bluewater.

This art will all be available at the Before Watchmen website later today. Live from #c2e2 UPDATE WITH FINAL ART.

Seth's cover for the first volume of Lemony Snicket's new series of books has been released, along with Snicket's warning: “I suggest extreme caution … The distribution of this cover image should be on a need-to-know basis, limited to librarians, booksellers, readers, e-readers, educators, journalists, muck-rakers, bloggers, tweeters, men, women, and children.”