Davolio: 2015

El Justrciero Fantasma

Fantastic Vintage comics inspiration over at Joan Navarro's blog, also great resource for manga!

Frans Sedlacek

Behold the stupifying beauty of Frans Sedlacek, an illustrator active in the early 20th century, so grateful to Monsterbrain for more unsettling images from the German 'Simplicissimus' magazine!

This series of posters has already been around for a long while, but I stumbled on them again and stil I am completely fascinated by the clever twists and 'genre' confusion that derives. Courtesy of Peter Stuilts on Behance.

The ethical dilemma of self-driving cars - Patrick Lin

Thought provoking and beautifully executed Ted talk animation on the ethics of self driving cars, totally enjoyed this.
Animation by Yukai Du

Allen Capoferri Character designer

I really like these pencil and ink studies from the blog of prolific artist and character designer Allen Capoferri.

Glorious backgrounds

A collection of inspiring background designs courtesy of Edgerrt on Tumblr.

One Day

Aamazing animation from the talenetd Gobelins students

Nobrow graphic novels

Interesting interview on Broken Frontier on Roman Muradov's graphic novel published via Nobrow.

Another beautiful graphic novel is by French illustrator Marion Fayolle called 'In Pieces'

Michael DeForge

There is something wonderfully whimsical about the new comic Frontier #10 by Michael DeForge, on sale here.

Futuristic Retro Space tale

Amazing find over at Off World Gizmodo about this beatifully illustrated vintage space tale from the Soviet times.

Gabriele Basilico

A Wikiradio podcast on photographer Gabriele Basilico (in Italian).

Myanmar: The land of make believe

The animation for Amnesty International I have directed and designed, here is the link to their page for more information. For full credits on the animation production see visualiser.org.

The tell tale heart 1953

Amaro and Walden's Joyride

Fantastic work from The Line animation studio, great characters ready for more adventures!

Frankensim

Funny and surreal little game by the creative minds at Animade TV

Lilli Carre': The bloody footprint

Amazing online short narrative from superb multidisciplinary illustrator Lilli Carre' for The New York Times.

PES Honda ad

Impressive ad from the renowned PES for the Honda campaign. However this is an amazing piece of paper artistry, his animated shorts with full of dry humour remain my favourites...

Jeremie Fischer Route Jaune

Really seductive sense of colours, composition and space in the work of illustrator Jeremie Fischer.

Vintage book on writing comics

Great biblioteque of resources at Ramonlandia, including a beautiful vintage book on writing comics.

Illustrated 007

Great collection of James Bond's illustrations from all over the world at Illustrated 007. This is form the comic srtip Casino Royale by John McLusky.

Jules Verne: The Man Who Invented the Future

Very excited to come across this post from the ever superb Wardomatic blog on this book: Jules Verne: The Man Who Invented the Future by Franz Born illustrated by Peter P. Plasencia ©1964 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Just an exceptional sense of composition and stylisation!

I can see you! Web comic

First instalment of my intergalactic atemporal web comic...

Perec drives you crazy

Since I have read Life: a user's manual by George Perec, I am fascinated by the attention that people have given to his puzzling narratives, here is Magnificent Octopus making some interesting observations and show their deep reading skills in trying to decipher Perec's universe.

I can see you! In progress webcomic

These are in progress panels for a webcomic series on outer space I am working on.

Orson Wells and Frank Beacham

Fascinating article on Creative Cow about cameraman Frank Beacham, who first used Betacam thechnology and collaborated with Wells in his last picture.

Doctoral thesis in graphic novel form

Fascinating article on BoingBoing...

AIGA Design Archives inspiration

Fanstatic resource of ads, artists and designers from the past decades...

Animator C Huettner interview with animator G Sharp

Great interview over at Greg Sharp's blog with Charles Huettner.

Way to go

Immersive interactive work giving a different experience of a walk in the woods....

Annecy Playlist on NFB (National Film Office Canada)

Great selection of animations from the Annecy 2015 edition.

Manolo Prieto

Fantastic gallery of Spanish illustrators from several decades, a must see, this is from aseries called 'Otros toros' by Manolo Pietro..

Occult Illustrations

Brilliant post on Dangerous minds about the Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros, a rare book on the occult dating from 1775 which is held by the Wellcome Library.