illustration

Rowling that introduced us to the young Harry Potter, his friends Hermione and Ron and the evil Voldemort.Scholastic and Bloomsbury Publishing are behind this new edition and have released some of the illustrations along with a video of Kay talking about the models he makes to use as reference.The illustrated edition of Harry Potter and[...]

Samuel Sattin has written a young adult novel that's right over the plate for pop culture fans, described as a hybrid of The Goonies and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Set in the Pacific Northwest, it features three teenagers and–you guessed it–something dark and possibly occult under the foundations of their high school. The Silent End […]

Gideon Kendall may be one of the first people I met in comics, or at least aspiring to comics, even though he was already a highly accomplished illustrator, and these days has been working on high-profile animation projects as well. It just goes to show that you can be a top-notch artist whose work is […]

Illustrations by well-known industry artists William Stout, Dave Stevens, Mike Mignola, Simon Bisley, Tim Gula, and Cabeen, an illustrator himself, accompanied his horror stories.“Clowns” opens the Cabeen’s new book Fearworms It is an old poem from the 1980s about killer clowns before it was a popular trope Cabeen was initially inspired by the true story[...]

By Olumide Mad Magazine artist and writer Al Jaffee is celebrating a milestone. It has now been fifty years since the first appearance of his fold-in was featured in issue 86 of Mad Magazine in 1964. The Scott Eder Gallery in Brooklyn recently held an opening reception featuring some of Jaffee's original fold-in work. Scores […]

By Cameron Hatheway October 14th marks the release of the fantasy video game graphic novel In Real Life from First Second Books. Originally starting as a short fiction story on Salon.com by Cory Doctorow, it has since become fleshed out and adapted to the comics medium with the help of artist extraordinaire Jen Wang. Mesmerized […]

One look at the list of creators in this doc who do comics or illustration or work of a narrative nature- pretty much shows how far it’s come.Art school broadened my horizons and interests to include jazz, blues, fine art, illustration, abstract expressionism, collage; pretty much everything.So I more or less came to comics through[...]

I first met the rising star Toby Cypress ( of The White Suits from Dark Horse whose cover was recently chosen by Diamond Previews to highlight) at an OOSA table at SPX, and those who belong to collective also include: Andrew MacLean, Logan Faerber, Nathan Fox, Liz Suburbia, Alexis Ziritt, Paul Maybury, Chris Visions, Ming[...]

Lovecraft … at my core I think I'm a hopeless romantic with a Goth/punk edge.I loved The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen and read it till the binding fell apart when I was little and actually screamed out loud when I saw the Disney version in the theater!!! My Gram was so embarrassed! So[...]

Rex was already a New York Times Best-selling author/illustrator before working on the first appearance of Chu, and so had formed his own sense of how text and illustration work in tandem He has a fine sense of when to load a double-page spread with detail, some of which may only be noticed after long,[...]

I was doing them in a style I had never done before, this very simple colorful cartoony style, and I really liked it and I posted it online and I tweeted Raja and she shared it with all of her fans and was super awesome and I was like ‘this was my first brush with[...]

This Madrid native is best known for his fantasy illustrations published in numerous art books, magazines such as Cthulhu, on book covers, in boardgames and on cards.He works for American companies Avatar Press, Dark Planet or Arcana Studios He also created illustrations for card games like Vampire: the Eternal Struggle (White Wolf, Inc in 2008),[...]

By José Luis del Río The British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) has announced the shortlist for its annual BSFA Awards for works first published in 2013. The BSFA has been running the awards since 1970, and was formed in 1958 when a group of leading authors, publishers, booksellers and fans decided that Britain needed an […]

By José Luis del RíoMike Roshuk is a digital artist and photographer based in Edmonton Alberta, creating works of art combining real images of models with illustration He is famous for his illustrations of Disney's Princesses dressed as warriors Also he makes amazing pin-ups based on Marvel Comics We had the opportunity to chat with[...]