Portrait of Randy Bernard for Car & Driver for a monthly “What I’d Do Differently” column.

Zé Otavio on Levy Creative >>

Zé Otavio Website >>

“I always enjoy adding lettering into my artwork. This cover for Anvil Press’ Valery the Great allowed me to design the title type, layout and illustration. This book just hit the shelves and has been receiving great reviews.” – Carl Wiens

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This reporter has learned through reliable sources, on deep background, and totally off the record that *wink wink*, a certain Matt Groening will be Lynda Barry’s “super secret, special guest” for the Friday night Artist as Cartoonist keynote at this year’s ICON7, The  Illustration Conference.  I can also report that Ms. Barry and Mr. Groening go way back, meeting at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA in the 1970′s. Maybe they’ll talk about that, maybe they won’t. I don’t know. You’ll have to show up and do your own reportage. And please, whatever you do don’t tell anyone on Twitter or Facebook you heard it from me. Tell them you heard it on TMZ or something.

This much I can tell you, ICON7 will take place in a place called Providence, RI on June 13-16, 2012.

Kevin Hauff Website >>

“Couple of months ago I’ve been approached by a french company to see if I would be interested to work on a wall paper for children. The idea was to build a collection of classical type of wall papers, pretty much inspired by toile de jouy, (or toile), each of them would have a classical book as main theme, and  illustrated by different artists; the kind of wallpaper you’d put only on one wall only.” –  Gerard Dubois

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For more of D. Yee’s great paintings go here.

“New cover for Miami New Times, about police set ups, where essentially cops get a house, have criminals break in, and then the cops shoot them all once they’re inside. Most of my roughs played with showing cops, and the situation, but the one that was picked had a feeling of a panther about to pounce – seemed appropriate. subbed some house windows for the eyes, and bobs your uncle.” – Pete Ryan

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I’ve been following Lionel’s work for a while. I do not speak French, but this speaks to me. I think it translates to The Era of Pisces or The Era of Fish or Waterworld or something. Doesn’t matter, illustration spans the globe and breaks down linguistic barriers…and unleashes a torrent of water which dooms us to a watery grave. Le website, and le blog.

For more of his great work go here.

“For nine weeks this spring, I contributed a picture or two every week to a French publication entitled 9 Semaines Avant L’Election. The subject was politics and each issue had a theme. Since my pictures were editorial contributions and not illustrations for articles, I was free to avail myself of that old adage that a picture is worth as many words as it takes to fill an Op Ed article.” – Brad Holland

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