LINKS
ARTISTS
- Anthony Ausgang
-- wild cartoon paintings
- Buff Monster -- modern
cartoon designs, paintings, installations, toys. Some are pink!
- Tom Bunk -- humor artist
for MAD, Garbage Pail Kids, Silly Cds, and many more!
- David Burke -- monsters
paintings, and cool Monster Babies
- Leslie Cabarga --
cool fonts, art books, graphic design, illustration, stock art
- David Coulson
-- classic warm-hearted cartoons, illustrations, lettering
- Robert Crumb
-- has comics, books, prints, cards, sculptures, etc. by Crumb
and family members. (Site founded by Jesse Crumb)
- Dalek Art -- modern cartoon
paintings and graphics. Beautiful work!
- Kit
Davenport -- nice ceramic sculptures
- Duane Flatmo --
murals, cartoon-cubism illustrations and wild human-powered kinetic
sculptures
- Jeff Gaither
-- horror artist featured in Art Alternatives, Juxtapoz, etc.
- Cynthia Hooper --
artwork includes beautiful paintings of landfills, industrial
zones, vacant lots.
- Jeff Jordan --
surreal paintings ("National Geographic on acid", as
one viewer said), and Mars Volta album covers.
- Jay Lynch
-- has done underground comix, illustrations, hundreds of Wacky
Packages roughs, Garbage Pail Kids gags, other Topps projects,
the Meanie Babies card backs, and Silly CDs gags
- Mark Newgarden -- art
director for Topps' Garbage Pail Kids, Gruesome Greetings, Toxic
High and more. See his new animation, books, and humor projects.
- Scott Shaw! --
master cartoonist, animator, and art director
- Karen Sullivan -- psychological,
spiritual primitive-style paintings with a nice cartoony quality
- Henning Wagenbreth
-- wonderful TOBOT "automated illustration system"
artworks!
- Adam White --
t-shirts and graphic art with strong pop design
- Jesse Wiedel --
paintings of poetic misfits in a gritty world
- Skip Williamson -- one of the masters of underground comix.
Very nice cartoony paintings
- Jim Woodring --
beautiful, mystical cartoon paintings and comics (JIM, FRANK)
-- Outstanding!
- Ray Zone -- the king
of 3D comics!
GALLERIES
AND MUSEUMS
GARBAGE PAIL KIDS
PUBLISHERS
- Blab -- anthology
magazine of experimental comics and graphic design, pop culture,
and good weird art
- Dark Horse Comics --
comic books, graphic novels, and related products
- Comic Images --
trading cards (co-published Meanie Babies cards with Dark Horse)
- Fantagraphics
-- alternative and underground comics. Artists include Crumb,
Clowes, Woodring and Ware. Ask for their catalog. They also publish
The Comics Journal, with news,
criticism, good cartoonist interviews.
- Hero Factory --
publishers of Silly CDs Series 2, also distributors for Silly
CDs Series 1.
- Last Gasp Comics --
underground comics, progressive art books, counter-culture books.
Not for minors.
- Jamungo -- vinyl dolls
and more
- Juxtapoz magazine
-- features edgy alternative art
- Shorty's Inc --
makes skateboards and skatin' hardware and clothing
- Topps -- their site focuses
on new products (including the All-New Wacky Packages and All-New
Garbage Pail Kids)
RANDOM ART,
RANDOM COMICS
- Artificial
-- experimental computer programs for graphics.
- Auto-Illustrator
-- Adrian Ward's vector drawing software, a parody of Adobe Illustrator,
comes with many cool random drawing tools. You can even write
plug-ins for it. Good documentation. Demo and full versions available.
- Exercises
in Randomness -- random sequences of Mary Worth comics.
- Grafik
Dynamo! -- Bold 3-panel layout combines random text balloons
with random images from blogs and news sources on the web. The
panels change as you watch.
- Harold
Cohen's "Aaron" program -- draws random figures
and landscapes.
- Laff
Randomizer -- by Shmorky (Dave Kelly) -- a great example
of randomly generated web comics, done in Flash.
- Leon's
Random Comic Strip Generator -- makes 3 panels with random
nonsense sentences, with primitive art showing 1 - 3 characters.
- NewsComic
-- by Dave Miller, recycles and chops up live news (RSS feeds)
to build stories, using a 3-panel layout.
- One-Armed Carl --
random panel sequences of Scott McCloud's comic. First and last
panel stay constant.
- Scott
McCloud's "5 card Nancy" game -- how to make short
random comic strips by combining panels of Ernie Bushmiller's
classic Nancy strips
- Stripcreator
-- it can make random 3-panel strips. Or you can choose the characters
and backgrounds, and type the text for the word balloons.
SPECIALTY
BOOK DEALERS
- Bud's Art Books --
(formerly Bud Plant Comic Art) new and recent books on comics,
fantasy art, illustration, illustrators of the past, calendars,
cards, pin-up art. Extensive selection, great catalogs.
- Bud Plant Illustrated Books
-- information and publications on illustration, illustrators,
fantasy art, comics. Site has extensive biographies of major
illustrators.
- Lambiek.net
-- Amsterdam comics store's website. Look up comic artists in
the Comiclopedia - with more than 2,800 international comic artists,
complete with biographies and samples of their artwork. Also
has art exhibitions.
WACKY PACKAGES
Other
- Non-Sports Update
-- slick color magazine with trading card industry news and ads.
They also publish information on Topps' Wacky Packages.
- The Wrapper
-- newsprint magazine with ads for card and sticker dealers
- Comic-Con International
-- the huge pop culture convention meets in San Diego each
summer. Meet hundreds of artists, writers, editors, publishers,
fans, collectors, dealers
- Lines on Paper
-- this site is in favor of comic books. Are you?
- Winged Tiger --
promoting literacy, creativity, arts, using cartoons and humor.
Founder Phil Yeh and other artists create books, paint murals,
take part in school assemblies, conventions, conferences and
other public events for all ages throughout the world
- John Heinrich --
the steel guitarist's site. Includes some MP3's of his work
- Pixels3D -- great
Macintosh 3D modeling and animation software
- Scott Shaw's Oddball
Comics online column -- stories behind the weirdest comic
books!