Check out this series of great STREET FIGHTER illustrations by French cartoonist Bastien Vivès . (He also mostly does long B&W strips, see one in the gallery below and more on his site)

           

Here's one more I missed (whoops!):

         

See the rest here:  http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/2010/06/tokyo-flashback-vintage-design-and.html

I just found out about Jonny Negron's work a week or two ago via Tomer Hanuka's twitter. Michael, Mickey & I are over the moon about his gnarly illustrations--- which are a weird mix of the non-lame parts of R.Crumb's pin-up work, '70s hentai, Seiichi Hayashi, and my teenage wet dreams rolled into one. Johnny Ryan said he digs it too, like a "manga Dave Cooper."

                     

**Update Aug 31

Comic strip and free hoodie exchange is complete! I'm still totally open to more comics to add to the newsletter, and can offer a 40% off discount code to any more comics! Sorry, no more freebies... hoodies don't grow on trees y'know?

Hey Electric Ants!

Draw a sweet little comic strip in black-n-white, and get a coupon for a FREE 40% off discounted Toasty Time hoodie, hat, or miten! 

Inspired by McSweeney's SF Panorama (I JUST discovered this, I know, I'm a little late in the game) I'm gonna make a 1-page newsletter that'll be distributed with all Toasty Time goods.

Step 1: Draw a comic that will be published in here:

Step 2: Receive a coupon that will look like this:

Step 3: Go to ToastyTIme.com, get whatever your heart desires for FREE 40% off! 

Me & Evan's friend Bob makes really lovely music--- a weird mishmash of Wire, early Smashing Pumpkins and Timbaland beats. Most recently, he's been playing with his gf Mika as a 4-person indie-pop band in Osaka called ICE CREAM SHOUT. They have a blog too and you can buy their 1st album via iTunes/big cartel or at a few shops in Japan. 

They have a number of great songs on their MySpace, and this is the video for their most recent song TATTOOED TEARS:

live it love it, LIFE MAN O_O
im selling posters blah blah blah whatever who cares
more importantly, YOU CARE
buy a poster, safe the life of a child somewhere
you'll never meet this child but i guarantee you've done the world a
great service
thank you for your generosity

this is true love
http://www.michaelacolette.com/2010/08/big-boy-print-sale-2010/

also while we're at it follow me on twitter
http://twitter.com/spideretc

i'm drunk with power
here are some pictures of stuff u can buy
everything is between $12 and $31 --- free shipping to usa, can, mexico

limited quantities of most/all things
shhh dont look at me like that o_o
o_o
o_o
no one respects you like i do

Gorey has nothing on this bloodthirsty OFFICIAL SAFETY MANUAL, which focuses more on the horrific consequences of unsafe behavior and less on preventative behavior. You could even say it luxuriates in aforementioned horrific consequences.

I'm no visual artist, but I know that many artists have things that they like to draw over and over again, out of comfort or obsession or whatever. This artist just happens to enjoy drawing the twisted shape that a child's body makes when it flies through the air after being fatally struck by a large object.

         

As the safety manual reminds us, it's GREAT TO BE ALIVE! Unlike poor Chuck, and leaf-pile kid, and refrigerator kid.

For Bay Area folks, exciting news on the Science Fiction x Awesomeness front!  This Saturday, Alice Sola Kim will be reading a story at Writers With Drinks.  WWD is a monthly reading series hosted by io9's Charlie Jane Anders, featuring a mix of innovative and cool writers.

um... WOW.  Promo clips of the new Cartoon Network series that Calvin Wong has been doing work on for the past 6 months have made it online...  THIS SHIT IS GONNA BE SO GOOD!!  It won't let me embed it so you have to go click to watch it over there.