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In the hands of a different artist, Patt Kelley's characters, with their noodle arms and their watercolor tones, might come off as cute. But as readily accessible as their big heads and cartoon faces are, there is a great deal of nuance to both his original characters and his fan art...

When I first started reading Marlo Meekins' comics Tumblr, I was drawn to her delightfully grotesque caricatures--filled with long, red noses and vile grins--and her off-beat sense of humor. But what has made me smile every time I see a new update is Meekins' tendency to scatter reassuring messages amongst the jokes about moose makeouts and farting ladies...

Ronald Wimberly's Prince of Cats pulls Romeo and Juliet into the 20th century by recasting Juliet's cousin Tybalt as the leader of an '80s street gang, mashing up Shakespeare with hip-hop culture and Japanese martial arts. And that's certainly not his first riff on popular culture; he's written about organic food-loving ninjas living in Brooklyn and designed characters for the blaxploitation send-

Like a lot of artists, Dave Bardin plays with redesigns of popular characters, drawing and redrawing them until he's satisfied with the results. Many of Bardin's pieces are carefully studied reinterpretations of Batgirl, Popeye, the Big Bad Wolf and Superman, mixed in with his own hilarious illustrations of zombie nuns and babies who battle pterodactyls...

Chances are, if you've seen Ken Wong's art, it's thanks to American McGee's Alice sequel, Alice: Madness Returns. Wong provided concept art for the game, helping to establish the tone of scenes like the Mock Turtle's Story and imagining the possible gameplay with a giant steampunk snail...

Tyler Parker has illustrated four children's books, but his colorful geometric illustrations are witty enough to win over kids-at-heart as well as the under-12 set. He draws up fashion-forward foxes, French Revolutionary vampire slayers (who "Let them eat stake") and monsters far more interested in eating candy than eating brains...

Mark Bello's big-headed portraits are chock full of charm. He chooses subjects already infused with fun: Ninja Turtles, ThunderCats, the cast of The Goonies, characters from Wes Anderson's films, and finds their warmth and appeal at the tip of his pen...

Last year we collected 110 classic comic book covers celebrating different aspects of the holiday season and it was so popular, we've decided to add even more images to the fray this year. In the grand tradition of Pokémon, there's 150 (sorry, 649 wasn't in the cards this time around) covers for you to browse. Dig into the seasonal goodness after the jump.

Carlos Lerms' fanart isn't limited to one medium. While he tackles familiar fanart subjects like Batman, the Avengers and Katniss Everdeen, he also draws images of Ernest Cline's novel, Ready Player One, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Haruki Murakami's 1Q84...

This holiday season, a lot of doodlers and webcomickers are going to get their hands on the latest iPad or other touchscreen device and begin the hunt for a third party capacitive stylus capable of delivering something resembling the lines they manage on the pages of Field Notes/Moleskines/homework/legal pads...