Lauren Davis
Mike Freiheit Caricatures The Cast of ‘Mad Men’ And Monstrous Presidential Candidates [Art]
Always thought politicians were monsters? In one of Mike Freiheit's politically themed illustrations, he draws the members of the 2012 US presidential tickets as classic movie monsters. (Although Joe Biden looks less like the Wolfman than Michael J. Fox's dad in Teen Wolf, which is pretty perfect.) His editorial and personal illustrations take us into the gladiator's ring with Democrats and Republ
Natalie Andrewson Illustrates Powerful Folktales From Around The World [Art]
For her senior thesis, Natalie Andrewson, a North Carolina native, rewrote folktales from around the world to fit a southern US setting and created illustrations to accompany each tale. Myths from Japan, Brazil and Morocco are placed on southern estates and in murky American swamps.
Frank Stockton Gives Us the Last Unicorn in Comic Covers and the Star Wars Cast at the Movies [Art]
There's a reason that Frank Stockton receives illustration commissions from folks like Entertainment Weekly, the New Yorker, Esquire, Mondo, IDW and Fantagraphics. He has a reverent sense of other people's properties, a luminous sense of color and an ability to construct scenes that are crowded but never overly busy.
Stephen Maurice Graham Draws Man-Eating Sorority Girls and Keyboard Cat at the Office [Art]
Stephen Maurice Graham creates incredibly playful illustrations that sometimes contain blood and guts and bones. His monstrous sorority girls and tigers hungry for human flesh sit side-by-side with predictions about the future of Dublin. It's a crazy, primary colored science fiction dream.
Carolyn Presti Draws Imaginary Covers For Harry Potter, Ray Bradbury And The New Yorker [Art]
Many artists imagine themselves drawing the cover illustration for the New Yorker, but Carolyn Presti has actually mocked up a few covers with New York-themed images. She's also put her own spin on covers for the Harry Potter books, an imagined biography of author Italo Calvino and Ray Bradbury's classic short story "All Summer in a Day."
Justin Volz Draws John McClane’s Feet and Ghost Rider as a Nude Model [Art]
Justin Volz creates moody illustrations perfect for portraits of a particularly weary Walter White, Cubone (the world's saddest Pokémon) and Robb Stark as the King in the North (with Grey Wind looming behind). But there are also shades of humor in his illustrations, such as his stark drawing focusing on John McClane's sliced-up feet and Ghost Rider posed as a figure drawing model.
Paul Windle Draws Skateboarding Dinosaurs And Mid-1970s Baseball Players [Art]
Paul Windle has done editorial illustrations about economic disparity, elections, New York cultural landmarks and our relationship with Abraham Lincoln. But credits in Bloomberg, Businessweek and the New York Times don't mean he can't sketch up a Stegosaurus wielding a sword while riding a skateboard or revel in the facial hair of baseball players from the mid- to late-1970s.
Jimmy Giegerich Draws The Simpsons’ Fist Of The North Star And Monstrous Wall Street Brokers [Art]
Jimmy Giegerich puts a wild-eyed spin on everyone from Sailor Moon's Queen Beryl to the cast of Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. His manic illustrations are packed with sweat, blood and brilliantly colored monsters.
Rory Phillips Pits David Bowie Against Killer Kaiju And Redesigns The Birds Of Prey As A Scooter Gang [Art]
Rory Phillips has plenty of thoughtful—and sometimes funny—approaches to character design and redesign. He casts Wonder Woman as a Scythian warrior and trades in her bondage-themed lasso for the ancient Chinese weapon known as the meteor hammer. His Batgirl and Black Canary form a vigilante scooter club with a bit of roller derby flair. And he gives us a poster for the non-existent movie I somehow need to see, starring David Bowie as a fighter of giant monsters.
Donya Todd Draws Hallucinatory Girls Obsessed With Death And Pizza [Art]
It would be wrong to dismiss Donya Todd's (some images NSFW) comics and illustrations as cute pictures of pretty girls. After all, her ladies, with their big lips and wide eyelashes, are often flavored with touches of manga and early animation. But on closer inspection, her pictures, filled with coffins, pizza, rainbows, skeletons and nightmarish creatures, feel like folk art from Todd's personal mythology, a peek into a brain obsessed with mysticism, pop culture and otherworldly landscapes.