Matt Taylor

Intense, rich colours dominate Matt Taylor’s incredible illustrations. His bold aesthetics coupled with the influence of Americana, fifties and sixties comic books and the contrast of primary colours, result in a damn fine body of work. Below is a selection of his film posters and private commissions...

Matt lives and works in Brighton, UK.

Tim Doyle

Illustrator and print-maker Tim Doyle hails from Austin, Texas and runs Nakatomi Inc, a site geared for the self-proclaimed nerd folk. I know him more as the guy who draws "real life" locations from The Simpsons and other TV shows. All of which make for extremely pleasant viewing.

His visual style reminds me of the legendary comic artist and Ghost World creator, Dan Clowes with its minimal colour palette and shading technique. Tim also has one of the best artist's bios I've ever read. He has lots of cats.

 

The pulp fiction of Francesco Francavilla

There are two things you need to know about Italian comic book artist, Francesco Francavilla: Firstly, he produces some of the best pulp and retro-styled pictures you're ever likely to come across and, secondly, he has created possibly the most perfect minimalist posters for the hit TV show, Breaking Bad; the latter project purely as a hobby.

In 2009 he created The Black Beetle, a comic series he originally made for his Pulp Sunday blog, which has since been picked up by Dark Horse Comics, gaining him much critical acclaim. And he has also produced a long line of fantastic covers for many publications (including Dark Shadows, The Spider, Hellboy, Sherlock Homes and The Shadow to name but a few), earning him an Eisner award in 2012.

 

 

 

 

 

Beautiful decay: the work of artist and designer, Evan Hecox.

It was a few years ago when I first heard of Evan Hecox.  I can't remember exactly how I came to find his work but it instantly grabbed my attention. The simplified, design-like style hit the same chord that illustration does with me. The paintings are almost cinematic in their composition. And it's this mix of recording the factual, physical decay of a city street while simultaneously reducing it to it's essential visible components, and turning it into a beautiful image, that I love so much.

He begins with careful observations of a setting and then progresses into concentrated, detailed drawings worked over a prepared, aesthetically textured ground. As a result the drawing floats on top of the surface, which remains visible through the drawing, creating a space between them that is at once tied to, and distanced from the image.

His more recent work has started to move towards abstraction with design coming to the fore. Presenting work with bold abstracted lettering combined with the urban landscapes of his previous work, often drawn over newspaper.

Evan Hecox lives and works in Colarado, USA.

Opening night of my solo show

Thank you to all the people who came out to The Regal Cinema on Saturday night for the opening of my new solo show. It genuinely meant a lot to me to see you guys there and to get a chance to talk to people in the real world about my work. Thank you for all your kind words... you're good people.

The show will be up for a while, so if anyone happens to be in the area then feel free to stop by and check it out. It covers two floors, both upstairs and downstairs and you could go and see a film too while you're there.

Sketches by Mike Mignola

Mike Mignola is easily one of my all time favourite artists. His utterly unique style not only perfectly complements the horror genre he writes about but has also influenced countless other artists across the world.

Everyone knows Hellboy. Especially since the movies came out and hit the box office. And every comic fan knows Mignola's work. But what I wanted to show here is a selection of his cool little sketches and studies of the beasts and demons that inhabit his world. I think these illustrate just how loose Mignola is naturally when not having to ink for a finished publication.

His website is here...