Cary Nord

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.

Earlier in the year it was announced that Paolo Rivera would no longer be exclusive to Marvel. While many were naturally disappointed to learn that they would no longer see regular work from Rivera on titles like Spider-Man and Daredevil, fans nonetheless looked forward to seeing what the artist would produce away from the only company he'd worked for throughout the last decade, and now Valiant Co

Well, here's something new in the endlessly bewildering (to me) world of variant covers: a talking variant for X-O Manowar #1, which relaunches the Valiant publishing line this May. The cover doesn't actually talk, mind you, not like one of those children's books or greeting cards that play recorded messages when you open them...

The newly revived Valiant Comics has officially announced the creative team behind its first release. The Surrogates and The Homeland Directive writer Robert Venditti and artist Cary Nord of Conan fame will bring a time-displaced Visigoth trapped inside the most powerful weapon in the universe to stores in X-O Manowar #1 on May 2...

Press Release The world's most famous barbarian will be going through some changes, starting with a relaunch of the Dark Horse comics series after issue #50. First, though, they'll be tying up some loose ends: after Tim Truman and Cary Nord wrap up their adaptation of "Rogues in the House" in Conan #44, original Conan writer Kurt Busiek and artist Greg Ruth will be finishing off Born on