Brought to Light

Brought to Light: Thirty Years of Drug Smuggling, Arms Deals, and Covert Action published originally by Eclipse Comics in 1988 collected two stories, the more notable being the collaboration of Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz titled Shadowplay: The Secret Team. It covers the history of the Central Intelligence Agency and its controversial involvement in the Vietnam War, the Iran-Contra affair, and its relationship with figures like Augusto Pinochet and Manuel Noriega. It's basically just an anthropomorpich character spilling his guts on what actually happened. The art by Sienkiewicz is wonderfully wacky and experimental and makes the monologue into a mind-blowing reading experience.

Tomer Hanuka

Tomer Hanuka illustrations and Un-Men Vertigo comics series covers. A new Tomer Hanuka book Overkill has been recently published. Also I recommend the comics collection Placebo Man, collecting Tomer's short stories from Bipolar magazine. Bipolar was a comic he did with his twin brother Asaf Hanuka, a brilliant illustrator in his own right. I hear they are planning to do comics together in the newar future again.

Duncan Fegredo Shade Covers

Duncan Fegredo has recently drawn Hellboy but he is a wonderful cover artist as well. Here are some of his Shade The Changing Man covers.

Desolation Jones

Beautiful original pages from Desolation Jones published by Wildstorm, written by Warren Ellis and drawn by J.H. Williams III.

Jim Steranko's Outland

You can read an excerpt of Jim Steranko's adaptation of the science fiction film Outland on "The Drawings of Steranko" page.

Christophe Blain: Isaac the Pirate

Dave Gibbons goes digital

Dave Gibbons, of Watchmen fame, shows his process on Cintiq Wacom.

Alex Maleev

The previous watercolours reminded me of the works by Alex Maleev, another comic artist (best known for his work on Daredevil), who does most of his art digitally, below is a fine example of his mastery of digital painting, and after that a "real" watercolour sketch.

Dustin Nguyen

The comic artist Dustin Nguyen has recently drawn Detective Comics and has done nice watercolour covers for the magazine. Here's one of those and another piece with a similar layout.