Mickey rejects
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
The portraits by Lisa Carletta clearly show why these sorry specimens didn’t make the grade as a bonafide Mickey.
(With thanks to Jourik - photo © Lisa Carletta, Mickey Mouse ® Walt Disney Corp)

The portraits by Lisa Carletta clearly show why these sorry specimens didn’t make the grade as a bonafide Mickey.
(With thanks to Jourik - photo © Lisa Carletta, Mickey Mouse ® Walt Disney Corp)

These speaker concepts were designed by Sherwood Forlee and do what their name says : the speak. Or sing, for that matter.
(via Freshome)

Miguel Martins and Joana Lafuente’s cute and wonderful Loli Loves Venom takes referentiality to the next, rather dizzying level.

Batman and Robin, as seen by Terry Richardson.
(photo © Terry Richardson, I suppose, via cgunit.net)
Here are The origins of DC Super-Villains, as envisioned by Stuart Immonen in the early 1990’s. As if Windsor McCay came back to life. With thanks to CalamityJon.
(via Drawn)
Some people can do everything. Take Charles and Ray Eames. They looked good, they created some of the greatest chairs in the world, and to top it off, they were masters at instructional animation. As the video above (from 1968) proves.

Ger Apeldoorn has been writing a wonderful blog for a while now, but I only discovered it today. What a treasure trove of vintage or obscure cartoon material ! One of Ger’s regular features are ads in comic strip format, such as these gruesome stories for Eveready batteries.
Man, those times must have been dangerous !

DC Comics celebrates 20 years of The Sandman with a rather chaotic poster featuring all the main characters from the seminal comics series, drawn by (almost) all artists who drew the stories in the first place. Check out NY Magazine’s Vulture blog for a key to who drew who.
(Thanks, Richard - indeed, we’re getting old)
Get Your War On, the immensely popular satirical strips by David Rees, gets the animation treatment, thanks to and exclusively at 23/6. Looks quite sleek.
This ad was published on the inside front cover of the 1992 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vs. the Conservation Crew Special (Archie comics). I’m not really sure what to think of that tagline, though.
There can be little doubt that that book was put together with the best of intentions, but overall it’s really a crap comic. It had best be left forgotten, if not for two pin-ups of the aforementioned Conservation Crew by Stan Sakai and Sergio Aragonez, presented after the click.