Art For Art’s Sake #247: The Pop Art Retro Stylings Of Des Taylor

It’s time for a show… it’s time for your weekly Art For Art’s Sake, all the best comic art you’ll find on the Internet…

Some great art from Des Taylor to come later, but first loads of great artwork…

Brian Bolland – Hellstrom

And two great Bolland Zatana pics…

Bill Sienkiewicz – Final approved rough for Dune graphic novel adaptation… and the final version

Babs Tarr – Loki

Two from Darwyn Cooke – both bats…

 

Dave McKean –

Kyle Baker – Alice in Wonderland

Cover painting by Sean Phillips from Criminal #2, 2006.

DC style guide work from Jose Luis Garcia Lopez –

Wonder Woman by Bilquis Evely & Mat Lopes

Jamie Hernandez – classic Love & Rockets artwork…

Jim Steranko – The Shadow

John Hicklenton’s incendiary Judge Dredd…

Alan Davis –

The Spirit – Will Eisner

And The Spirit from others… Brian Bolland…

Dan Schkade –

Darwyn Cooke –

 

Cerebus Dreams by Barry Windsor-Smith – from Swords of Cerebus in 1982

 

 

And now to end… the work of Des Taylor…

Des Taylor‘s art is simply lush… there’s no better word for it. It’s got a mix of fun, flirty, cheesecake styled stuff with a lovely painterly nostalgia and retro style about it all. His new book, Scarlet Couture: The Munich Files is coming out from Titan Comics this August – well worth a look! We ran a preview for you here and a look at some of the covers here.