Best Art Ever (This Week): Blade Runner, Last of Us, Game of Thrones, Flintstones, Mad Men & 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, and some of it’s endearingly silly. All of it’s 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.
 
 
 

The Punisher by Felipe Smith

 
 
 
Harley Quinn vs. Batman by Francesco Francavilla

 
 
 
The Golden Age Sandman by Alex Toth

 
 
 
The Golden Age Sandman by Colton Worley, after Alex Toth

 
 
 
Teen Titans by Diego Grosso (click to enlarge)

 
 
 
Venom/Slimer mashup by Brian Churilla

 
 
 
"Jawbreaker" by Daniel Krall

 
 
 
Detective Comics #27 detail by Sean Murphy (click to enlarge)

 
 
 
Back to the Future part II by Laurent Durieux for Mondo

 
 
 
Blueberry by Moebius

 
 
 
Pittsburgh by Nathan Doverspike (click here for close-ups, you wanna see this)

 
 
 
Hellboy by Saumin Patel

 
 
 
Usagi Yojimbo by Jeff Lemire for the Sakai Project

 
 
 
Greedo by Mike Henderson

 
 
 
The Last of Us by Mingjue Helen Chen

 
 
 
Monty Python and the Holy Grail by Dave Collinson

 
 
 
Batman by Matthew Vidalis

 
 
 
Superman by Michael Cho

 
 
 
Work in progress by Coop (click to enlarge)

 
 
 
"In the Year 2001" by an illustrator in 1895, via The Appendix

 
 
 
DC Comics superheroes by José Luis García-López (I might have posted this before... don't care)

 
 
 
Superman by Evan "Doc" Shaner

 
 
 
Resident Evil/Super Mario mashup by Dan Hipp

 
 
 
Blade Runner by Ilya Kuvshinov

 
 
 
Kitty Pryde by Corey Lewis

 
 
 
Scarecrow by Chris Weston

 
 
 
Art by Rudy Slama

 
 
 
Batman by Matt Wagner and Rick Taylor

 
 
 
Batgirl by Mike Mignola and Karl Kesel

 
 
 
Kabuki by Jim Steranko

 
 
 
Tron: Legacy brokeback pose by Craig Drake (BROKEBACK POSE... GET IT)

 
 
 
Ninja Turtles' Leonardo by Ron Wimberly

 
 
 
Mad Men by Phil Noto

 
 
 
Miss América Chávez by Camila Fortuna

 
 
 
Game of Thrones' The Hound and Sansa Stark by Dejan Delic

 
 
 
Art by Apollonia Saintclair

 
 
 
Mara Prince by Ming Doyle

 
 
 
Spider-Man Blue by Tim Sale

 
 
 
Batman & Robin vs. Catwoman by Arthur Adams

 
 
 
Wilma Flintstone by Andrew Wilson