Rik Wielheesen is a new illustrator from Holland and is about to graduate from the Art Academy. His illustrations and sculptures are some of the coolest works seen in awhile.
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Covered
Original cover by John Byrne; Marvel 1985. Cover by Josh Holinaty.
Covered is a blog that posts reinterpretations of original comic book covers by currently working illustrators and cartoonists. Some are mostly faithful tributes, others are clever subversions that alter the meanings of the originals. Others still are completely bizarre, eschewing traditional comic aesthetics for something totally different. I’d love to see Kyle Thomas do one of these.
Robin Burkinshaw
Above is an image capture from Alice and Kev, a project from British game design student Robin Burkinshaw. The project, presented as a frequently updated blog, tracks the lives of a homeless father and daughter family Burkinshaw created in the Sims 3. She guides the two characters as little as possible, instead relying on AI and their set personality traits (the father is insane, while the daughter is compassionate). The amount of conflict created by these two characters is on par with pretty much any soap opera – and despite being completely artificial computer game characters, the humanity of them is plainly evident in the entries’ comments, in which readers express sympathy for various characters and contempt for others.
Judge a book
This blog has a really nice collection of the Pelican classics. I really love the reduction of the subject matters to such simple graphical interpretations.
