portraits

Sandra Chevrier creates strange and dramatic portraits by adding comic book collages to watercolored portrait features. Superman, Wonder Woman and the Green Lantern fly and punch in the place of the portraits' eyes, noses and mouths.Chevrier's mixed media portraits are compelling and deceptively simple in their composition...

Even though there's plenty of love to go around for Star Trek: The Next Generation here at ComicsAlliance, even the most artistic of us can't imagine blindly going where no artist has gone before and illustrating the show's cast without looking at what we were doing...

Those vintage "Mad Men" comic strips from a few weeks back took retro to one extreme, but even they may have been surpassed by Alex Gross's series of superhero portraits. Each of them looks like they could have come stuck to the back of a Honus Wagner rookie card, and Gross has even gone as far as to label them according to individual studios...

Artist Robert Burden has painted a nostalgic series of portraits based around the action figures he played with as a child in the 1980s, including characters from Marvel and DC Comics, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," "He-Man" and "Voltron." As he explains on his website: "My current paintings are epic 'portraits' of the small action figures that I played with as