Best Art Ever (This Week): Birds of Prey, Goonies, Supernatural, Aliens, Grendel and More
We make a regular practice at ComicsAlliance of spotlighting particular artists or specific bodies of work, as well as the special qualities of comic book storytelling, but because cartoonists, illustrators and their fans share countless numbers of great pinups, fan art and other illustrations on sites like Flickr, Tumblr, DeviantArt and seemingly infinite art blogs that we’ve created Best Art Ever (This Week), a weekly depository for just some of the pieces of especially compelling artwork that we come across in our regular travels across the Web. Some of it’s new, some of it’s old, some of it’s created by working professionals, some of it’s created by future stars, some of it’s created by talented fans, awnd some of it’s endearingly silly. All of it is awesome.
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We’re very much interested to see what you’ve dug up and think should be featured here in Best Art Ever (This Week). Please submit any great art links to andy-at-comicsalliance.com. Artists, feel free to send in your own work or to request that your work be removed.
Where possible, please visit these artists’ websites to see more of their work, buy their products or commission an original piece.
Special thanks this week to reader Travis Ellisor for sending in so many great links. Follow his comics art Tumblr.
“Angry Birds” (of prey) by Denver Brubaker
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm poster concept by Bruce Timm
The Goonies by Logan Ganshirt
Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy by Yanick Paquette
Aquaman by Dave Bardin
Dusk of Destroyer – Gungrave by Erik Ly
Batman and Black Canary by Paul Smith and Gerry Turnbull
Death and Death by Dustin Nguyen
D4VE by Chris Pyrate
The Joker by Ron Salas from the collection of Travis Ellisor
The Silver Surfer by Steve Rude
Grendel by John Cassaday
Head Lopper by Mike Mignola and Dave Stewart
Lobo by Mike Wieringo and John Dell
Aliens/Predator: Deadliest of the Species by John Bolton
Oldboy by Josh Eckert
Forge by Barry Windsor-Smith
Fukenshi Kati by Kazuma Kaneko
Art by Q Hayashida
Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks/John Harris by Dyna Moe
Akira by Filippo Morini
Chewbacca by Joey Mason
Princess Peach and Mario by Jose Emroca Flores
Werewolf by Bernie Wrightson
The Rocketeer vs. the Spirit by Paul Smith
Red Sonja by Francesco Francavilla
Gatchaman’s Jun by Stanley “Artgerm” Lau
The Hulk by Bruce Timm from the collection of Richard Burchfield
Vintage World War II propaganda poster by unknown
Magik by Sarah Horrocks
Harley Quinn by Matteo Scalera
Mage by Matt Wagner
Dr. Manhattan by Giovanni Costa
Art by Hiroki Mafuyu
Supergirl by Victoria Ying and Michael Yamada
Art by Lorenzo Mattotti
Love & Rockets by Jaime Hernandez
