SKOTTIE YOUNG

We make a regular practice at ComicsAlliance of spotlighting particular artists or specific bodies of work, but because cartoonists, illustrators and their fans share countless numbers of great images 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, and some of it's endearingly silly. All of it's awesome.

The month of November will see the first issues for some of the major new titles from the Marvel Now initiative. As such, Marvel Comics has revealed variant covers to FF #1 by Art Adams and Skottie young, while also providing fans with a page of interior art by series artist Mike Allred...

On September 28 Marvel Comics will deliver the latest from the multiple Eisner Award winning team of Eric Shanower and Skottie Young, with the premiere issue of Dorothy & The Wizard In Oz #1. Adapting L. Frank Baum's fourth Oz novel, the series continues to diverge from previous installments with Dorothy, the Wizard and loads of new characters characters stuck in a bizarre underground world po

Movies: Captain America: The First Avenger will arrive on Blu-ray and DVD October 25 in both 3D and standard versions. Surveys: The American Bible Society surveyed a few thousand people about a certain translation of a bible verse using unspecified methodology and a percentage of respondents incorrectly attributed it to Captain America (among other figures)...

To coincide with this summer's Captain America: The First Avenger feature film, Marvel has commissioned a series of themed variant covers to be made available with comics on sale in June and July. Titles from across the line will have alternate "I Am Captain America" cover artwork depicting real world Americans of various vocations and ethnicities in the idiom of Captain America... Read

Movies: Judge Dredd has seriously updated his movie ride since 1995. Industry: Dark Horse Comics has promoted staffers Sierra Hahn and Dave Marshall to full editors. Digital: Skottie Young's The Adventures of Bernard the World Destroyer (which can be downloaded for $2 here) shows early signs of DIY success...

With "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and "The Marvelous Land of Oz" under their belts, the Eisner Award-winning team of writer Eric Shanower and artist Skottie Young are poised to let loose their third of 14 possible L. Frank Baum adaptations for a new generation with "Ozma of Oz" #1 on November 3...

Following a Twitter back-and-forth between Marvel.com editor Ryan Penagos and cartoonists Chris Eliopoulos and Katie Cook, the social network was inundated Thursday with a great wave of cuteness the likes of which haven't been seen since Commissioner James Gordon (the pomeranian, not the cop): Marvel Cats...

While Disney's relationship with Marvel regarding Steve Gerber and Val Mayerik's Howard the Duck hasn't historically been, shall we say, awesome, the publishing pair's merger seems to have already had a positive effect on Howard's productivity...

I'm just going to put this out there - if you're a fan of comic books and art in general and you don't like Skottie Young's work for some reason, then there is zero possibility of you and I ever being friends. Sorry folks, but that's just a fact...