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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Showcase: La Machine à Pixel's Pixel-Sauces

I love Sriracha.

[La Machine à Pixel's Blog]

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Cthulhu Cthursday: The Nameless Deep

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"My Neighbor Cthulhu" by Cheese-Demon

"Cthulhu" by PixelBlock

"Silly Nameless Terror" (t-shirt) by 6DollarShirts

"Dapper Cthulhu" by kbakonyi

"HP Lovecraft" by Meghan Murphy

"The Cluck of Cthulhu" (t-shirt) by Midgerock

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Double Triptych: White & Nerdy

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"White and Nerdy (Black)" by DKNG Studios

"Smells Like Nirvana" by Dave Perillo

"Than Thou Art" by Adam Hanson

"Spatula City" by Gimetzco

"Another One Rides The Bus" by Joshua Budich

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"Weird Alvolution" by Miranda Dressler

With the exception of Spatula City, these were all featured in Gallery1988's "Is This Thing On? 2" comedy retrospective exhibit. Check out the link for more.

ps. How great is Weird Al? That man is a stone-cold genius. Future historians will look back on him as one of the most important artists of the era. Mark my words!

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Showcase: Paulo Capdeville's 8-Bit Marvels

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[Paulo Capdeville's 8-Bit Marvels]

Monday, March 12, 2012

Triptych: Batman HATES Jokes

"8-Bit Dark Knight Poster" by Eric Palmer¹

"I'm Batman" by Fabian Gonzalez²

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"Gotham High Concept Art" by Jeffrey Thomas and Celeste Green³

¹ We watched The Dark Knight on Sunday morning. It's been about two years since I last watched it and MAN, I am struck by how impressed I still am with Heath Ledger as The Joker. I know everyone was, and still is, blown away by his performance, but coming back to it and seeing it after two years really put it in perspective. Christian Bale's Batman, by contrast, has just gotten more laughable and growly.
² A Batman made up of batman insignia. That is all.
³ Gotham High was a very real proposed animated series which (perhaps thankfully) never got past the concept art stage. Nevertheless, I admire the creativity that went into this youngified approach to Batman's Rogues Gallery. From left to right: Clayface, Two-Face, The Penguin, Killer Croc, The Riddler, Batgirl, Batman, Scarecrow, Catwoman, The Joker, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Bane and Mr. Freeze. You can check out more concept art here. I think that - all things considered - given the consistently high quality of Batman cartoons, from Batman: The Animated Series to The Brave and The Bold, this might have actually been not-terrible. As it is, it's a curious and amusing artifact.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Triptych: That Horrible Death Bee!

"Invader Zim: Destroyers Return" by HeyCat

"Dib and the E.T." (t-shirt) by Hoborobo

"Invader Zim" by Branflakes2

Man, do you know how hard it is to find decent, interesting Invader Zim artwork? I'm not saying it's not out there, but it's so buried in an astounding myriad of crap it's nigh impossible. Deviantart should just rename itself "scads and scads of poorly-rendered pencil sketches of GIR" and be done with it.

Anyway, it's been a few years since I watched Invader Zim, but a couple of weeks ago I decided to introduce my girlfriend to the show and we've been steadily working our way through the first season. What a great, demented show that was.