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more about #illustration Bill-Lee: These remind of some of the things I used to do(Yeah used to do...)with Legos... more » Anekanta - Go Play!: These completely kick ass. Number 3 and number 6 are pure awesome. Two is bizarre beyond belief but cool all the same, and number 1 is sheer outrage... more » joetato: I'm quite embarrassed that I thought about the combat Porsche from Leonard Part VI! My first thought was of Space Battleship Yamato! The land carrie... more » iCurmudgeon: Reminds me of stuff that appeared in Popular Mechanics in the '50s -- especially that land battleship. more » Dirk Anger: I think you can use #2 in Red Alert 3 more » acrobatic rabbit: still not as awesome as the Badonkadonk. [www.amazon.com] more » FrankN.Stein: Yeah sure - give taxi drivers a tank, that'll make city-traffic worhtwhile. more » gods-n-clods: That squid is ridiculously adorable. more » lenamoster: Oh man, I want this with a burning yearning. (Yeah, that was lame, but I don't care! That's how much I want to buy this book). I'm wondering if waitin... more » Lassus: Wow. This is just gorgeous stuff. I'm thinking of getting it as a children's book for my niece, but the text might be just a little too esoteric. P... more » ThisDudeRufus: How do the little protrusions on page 7 work? Do they just jut (that looks really weird written down) out some? more » disatess: It looks like a family pic of my brother -in-laws . And yes I have 6 of them ...ugh . more » it must be bunnies: All these soul stealing creatures reminds me of the prayer my mother would have us say before we went to sleep: "Now I lay me down to sleep I pray th... more » Mihara: Thank you for this. Shigeru Mizuki is an amazing artist, nearly 90 now, and is largely responsible for the "yokai boom" in Japanese popular culture s... more » Grey_Area: So yeah, the Japanese has always been very weird. Cue the flying panties! (thanks, Annalee). more » Sockatume: Fun as looking at mutants is, several of those "radioactive disasters"... aren't. Plenty of the bugs were gathered up from areas that happen to be nea... more » nearscrape: These things seem to get a lot of attention if they are found near a place like Three Mile Island or Chernobyl, but it's not uncommon even far from an... more » Alizarin: Well. This makes me want to walk into traffic. Interesting to be sure. But man, I have lost a little of my will to live. Poor things. more » Chip Overclock: It's about time for IO9 to do a "Triviagasm" on brains in a jar: for sure it's a recurring SF/horror trope. And really... aren't we ALL just brains i... more » tetracycloide: brainbot: "interesting side note: as a head without a body i envy the dead." more » -
#conceptart
Tank-Racecar Mashups are a Different Brand of Hybrid Vehicle
What do you get when you cross an oil tanker with a chopper? How about tank with a racecar or a taxi? You might end up with cartoonist Stan Mott's surreal illustrations of imaginary vehicles. More » -
#squidowl
Follow The Fictional Science Adventures Of Squid & Owl
Given everything that squid and owls have in common, why shouldn't they switch places for a while? That's the question that designer John Holbo asks in the beautifully-illustrated tale Squid & Owl, a romp through taxonomy, science and retro illustration. More » -
#monsteranatomy
Glimpse the Ghastly Innards of Japan's Folkloric Monsters
We've gotten an anatomy lesson in the giant monsters of Japanese cinema, now we get to see what makes Japan's supernatural creatures tick. A series of illustrated cross-sections reveal the fearsome anatomical features of hair-eating, soul-stealing beasties. More » -
#radioactiveart
The Mutant Art of Radioactive Insects
Science illustrator Cornelia Hesse-Honegger records mutations of insects found near radioactive disasters, including Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. Her watercolors offer a rarely-seen view on the long-lasting effects of radioactive contamination on living beings. More » -
#robotart
The Life and Times of a Brain in a Jar
Pixar illustrator Nate Wragg's recent series captures moments in the life of BrainBot — part robot, part human brain. BrainBot proves that you don't need facial expressions to display your melancholy. More » -
#movieposters
Clever Movie Posters Advertise Classic Films with Style
Brandon Schaefer's movie posters play with a single concept or image from a film, teasing them out into thoughtful, visually striking representations of the movies they advertise. More » -
#monsterart
Retro Illustrations of Monsters at Work and Play
Illustrator Juan Molinet blends science fiction concepts with classic cartoon inspiration to create quirky scenes featuring monsters, robots, and spacemen as they conquer the world, try to get home, or just enjoy a pleasant day outside. More » -
#art
Zombie Pin-Ups and Other Retro Horrors
Kristian Hammerstad's posters features well-dressed zombie women, an alien invasion, and other images out of scifi-influenced horror, rendered in a nostalgic, Charles Burns-influenced style. More » -
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#starwars
Cute Star Wars Drawings Teach You An Alternate Alphabet
Illustrator Michael Fleming teaches you the Star Wars alphabet, using a lovingly rendered mixture of well-known and obscure characters, including Kit Fisto and Admiral "It's A Trap" Ackbar. See it here. Also, check out his LOST TREK set on flickr. -
#botswithstuff
Discover Your Inner Robot With Bots With Stuff
Cartoonist Chris Gine has decided that he'll draw three new robots (with... stuff) each week for a year, giving you a glimpse into just how much variety there is in the robot world. More » -
#conceptart
Tatsuyuki Tanaka’s Cyberpunk Fairytales
Akira animator Tatsuyuki Tanaka illustrates darkly beautiful scenes of children occupying dingy, dystopic futures, filled with bodily transformations, man-machine interfaces, and cybernetic monsters. Check out our gallery below. -
#conceptart
Neil Gaiman’s Illustrated Multi-Pronged Apocalypse
In author Neil Gaiman’s poem “The Day the Saucers Came,” the various science fiction apocalypses all happen on the same day. Now artist Jouni Koponen has created a whimsical illustrated print of the poem. More » -
#alienart
Lonely Astronauts Explore Silent Alien Landscapes
As much as we all love “Also sprach Zarathustra,” the only soundtrack to space travel is probably going to be the low hum of your spaceship’s engines. And Dan McPharlin fully captures the silence of otherworldly exploration in his haunting illustrations of astronauts and spaceships moving through alien landscapes. His work evokes an unsettling and surreal sense of a first, quiet encounter with the unknown. More » -
#thejewelsofapator
Bruce Jensen's Sekrit Cool
Welcome back to The Jewels of Apator, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's column about the intersection of art and the fantastic. Bruce Jensen is an artist whose work you’ve probably seen more times than you can remember. Over seven seasons, his art montages formed the backdrop to hundreds of segments on the CBS show 60 Minutes II. Jensen has also done cover art for such classics as Neal Stephenson’s Snowcrash and The Diamond Age. His work tends toward bold color choices, using a style that can be whimsical or more severe, recalling the architectural surrealism of an artist like Magritte. More » -
#mechinalia
The Machine that Eats Slabs of Hot Lead
Boris Artzybasheff was an artist and illustrator during the early twentieth century, drawing hundreds of magazine covers and publishing illustrated books. According to the Hollywood Animation Archive, which has several of his originals in their collection, Artzybasheff said: "I am thrilled by machinery's force, precision and willingness to work at any task, no matter how arduous or monotonous it may be . . . I like machines." That's obvious from these images. More »
