Here is a gallery of French underground comic artist, Jacques Pyon. His work has a goofy but demented cartoon style about it, kind of a sinister version of a Nickelodean cartoon. There is a strange array of creatures and characters through out his work. Be sure to check out this sketchbook of his. Lots of interesting drawings in there.
Wolverton is probably best known for his goofy abstracted cartoon faces and bodies that have appeared in magazines, gift cards, tshirts and recently, small statues. But he's also one of the earliest comic artists of bizarre tales. He's made many comics in the horror and science fiction genre. His imaginative creatures and incredible hatch mark drawing style always made him stand out against the rest.
This gallery consists of many incredibly detailed drawings with amazing shading effects done in graphite. There are many mutated and unusual humanoid creatures amongst this imagery. And I'm wearing a black tshirt with a drawing made by Ouellette on it, fitting that I post his website today.
Rumsey's imagery is filled with incredible nightmare landscapes of giants, vultures, bodies stuck in architecture and all sorts of bizarre creatures. His charcoal drawing technique is amazing and the sometimes blurred out smeared faces really adds to the nightmare quality of the art. Be sure to click on the images in the gallery for much larger versions. And someone really needs to host a decent website for this guy, his work is far too amazing to be shown on Angelfire!
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.
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.
Serafini is an Italian graphic designer and architect who created a legendary book in the 1970's. It is of a completely fictional world with illustrations depicting peculiar lifeforms and a varied selection of other details addressing this imaginary world. It is written in a non existant language. It goes so far as to depict a rosetta stone which merely translates the text into another non existant language. If you're interested in hunting down this mysterious book, it apparently fetches 200 - 250 dollars at various internet book stores. For additional information on the book and the artist, check the links below.
