Art For Art’s Sake #257: All The Art & Junko Mizuno’s Kawaii Noir

by Richard Bruton

There’s always time in your Sunday to grab just a few minutes in the day and settle down with a drop of whatever tickles your fancy to enjoy the many fabulous bits of comic art placed before you here in what’s always been known as Art For Art’s Sake…

Plenty to entertain you with this time, all ending with some of the amazing artwork of Junko Mizuno. But first… this…

Kyle Baker – A rather weird Authority shot…

Robocop by Juan José Ryp

Babs Tarr – Zatanna

John Bolton – Army of Darkness

Jaime Hernandez… Catwoman

Vengeance of Bane #2 (1995) by Glenn Fabry

Thor #338 Cover by Walt Simonson – iconic!

Eduardo Risso – Death and Dream

Ariela Kristantina – Delirium

Two from Mark Buckingham’s Miracleman: Apocrypha #1:

And the glorious experimentation of Buckingham’s art in Miracleman #19:

Kevin Nowlan, glorious artwork as always…

Three from Bill Sienkiewicz… A Joker, a knight of the moon, and the boy of hell…

Three Alex Ross studies of The Shadow…

We’ll end this week with the wonderful art of Junko Mizuno – a Manga artist who has been making comics since the early 2000’s, with books including her debut, Cinderella (2000), and the likes of Junko Mizuno’s Hell Babies (2001), Little Fluffy Gigolo Pelu (2003), and Ravina the Witch (2014).

Her drawing style is often described as kawaii noir, sometimes as Gothic kawaii – with its mix of the terrifying and unnerving and a certain cuteness about things.

So, first a bit from Marvel’s Strange Tales of 2009 – ‘Welcome to Spider Town’…