nick derington

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.

Nick Derington meshes some anime sensibilities with a subtle, Saturday-morning-ready simplicity that occasionally makes his art look like a smoothed-over variation of something Mike Mignola might have drawn. Then there's his raging mustachioed version of the Incredible Hulk, which couldn't be more timely for November when everyone is letting their facial follicles go wild...