Art

Every once in a while Marvel likes to get cultural by commissioing a bunch of variant covers in the style of great paintings. they've just done this with April's Avengers Art Appreciation Variants, which will whet your appetite for both the Avengers movie AND a trip to the local museum. Alex Maleev, Michael Kaluta, Gabriele Dell’Otto, Greg Horn, Gerald Parel and more channel Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Monet, Pollock, and Egon Schiele (one 'l'). Which one do you like best?

So many layers of the awesome.

And it makes him unhappy, writes artist Tim Kreider, who has just resumed weekly updates on his website.

The Society of Illustrators, an august institution long devoted to the now-vanishing artform of magazine illustration, has in recent years presented medals in the Sequential category for comics-type stuff. this year's winners include a gold medal for GB Tran's VIETNAMERICA and a silver medal for Brian Rea's Modern Love, a series of illustrations for a NY Times column column on romance.

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The possibilities are endless.

Mark Millar is announcing a slew of Millarworld projects this week, exclusively on CBR, and here's the long-rumored project with Frank Quitely: JUPITER'S CHILDREN, a 12-issue maxiseries.

Even if you feel Big Barda does not speak for you, it's hard to dislike that sweet Bruce Timm cover.

All little girls love horses, and Lisa Hanawalt is representing for all with War Horse: An Illustrated Review. 100% good.

Due to a computer glitch we had a corrupted file for the cover to Zak Sally's SAMMY THE MOUSE collection up in a previous post, so for your viewing pleasure here's the real deal. If you missed the news, Sally is collecting the three Ignatz issues of his dark strip for a 104-page trade which he funded on Kickstarter. The book will be out in March and yes -- he used that amazing printing press in his garage to print it himself. He hopes for a second collection later this year.

Tony Millionaire reposts this full page wonder from the LA Weekly when alt.comix strips were an important feature and people actually read alternative newspapers.

Adi Granov has supplied the cover for the 2012 edition of MONSTERS & DAMES, the art book crated in conjunction with the Emerald City Comicon each year. The cover provides both a monster and a dame, so it is well within the theme. Check out the link for much more art. This year's ECCC will be held March 30-April 1st in Seattle, WA.