Friday, March 10, 2006

Max Anderson
Ok, the real artist of "Death and Candy" and "Pixy". Strangely, I'm constantly confusing Blanquet and Anderson together. Anderson also has a wild fairy tale like imaginary world filled with car people, organic living rugs made from dogs, and many other peculiar characters. Apart from his surreal comic work he's made sculptures, short films and some very bizarre installation pieces.

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Blanquet
One of my favorite artists living today, Blanquet has an amazing skill at rendering strange fairy tale worlds into his own twisted visual style and narratives. Although his website is missing much of his best art, particularly the drawings from recent issues of Blab, there is a good assortment of his imagery here. And concerning my mistaking Blanquet for doing Pixy, not sure what made me think that, Max Anderson will be next.

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Jeff Bertels
Bertels has an incredible imagination. His imagery is filled with floating landscapes drifting besides strange monsters. The shapes he chooses for his creatures are always peculiar and wildly abstracted from what you'd expect to see as something alive. Looking at his paintings I couldn't help but think of Joe Vaux, Brian Froud and a bit of Dr Suess, quite a fantastic combination!

Monday, March 06, 2006

La Speranza
Speranza's imagery consists of a wide assortment of strange animals and mythological creatures. His unusual designs of flying machines are particularly interesting. Be sure to check out his etchings.

Sunday, March 05, 2006

Sipos Dávid
While the gallery for this artist is small at 11 pictures, there are some strange images to be seen. There are portraits of red tree people, landscapes with surreal devices, bird like monsters walking about and characters with boats and plants growing on their head.