Rare Dave McKean Art

Two early illustrations by Dave McKean. These clearly precede his work on Sandman covers, and probably have been done around the same time he did Violent Cases, his first graphic novel with Neil Gaiman. So that would be around 1986-1987.

Concept Art for Diablo III by Duncan Fegredo

These powerful concept art pieces by Duncan Fegredo for the game Diablo III shows the influence from Mike Mignola the artisthas integrated into his own style while working on the Hellboy series. The use of black and the confidence of the line and pose - the work of a master!

Santiago Caruso

Santiago Caruso is a young artist and illustrator from Argentina. He has a unique, haunting style with hints of old fairy tale illustrations mixed with surrealist and horror tendencies.

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.

Yoko Shimizu

Wonderful cover illustrations by Yoko Shimizu for Sandman - the Dream Hunters and Unwritten by DC/Vertigo Comics and Walrus and Utne Reader magazines.

Drew Struzan's Frankenstein

A limited edition poster from Mondo.

Massimo Carnevale

The covers for the DC/Vertigo series Northlanders by Massimo Carnevale are something to behold! He did some brilliant covers on Y- The Last Man, as well.

Marshall Arisman

The images Marshall Arisman has made, be it for illustrations or fine art pieces, share a haunting surrealistic quality and sometimes mystical leanings. He did an audio interview recently on the great Escape From Illustration Island podcast. Inspiring thoughts from a unique artist and teacher.

Dave McKean has always been one of my favourite artists, and it is clear to see that he took a lot of influences from Arisman at an earlier stage of his career.

Jon Foster

Jon Foster is one of the best modern fantasy illustrators, he has really mastered the digital painting techiques in an eye-pleasing manner. Stack that with innovative layouts and great imagination, and here's what you get:

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.