My favorite thing to read on The Storque (the etsy blog) will be no surprise to my friends - the News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere, where today I found the work of Parisian ad illustrator Emmanuel Polanco:

I love most especially the cover for Le Tigre.

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Long time, no post, and so gentle reader, to make up for my absence, I bring you, vintage, surrealist manga


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Look! This appeals to the prosperous_fox' propensity for bat costumes! Admittedly, the bat-costume thing might not be a common obsession, but Amy Earles' art, full of Gorey-like articulated dolls is sure to appeal:

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Check out the magical illustrations of displaced prairie girl Chelsea Cardinal. She has an incredible sense of colour, like a children's illustrator not afraid of nightmares.

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Creature Comforts highlights the work of Japanese painter, illustrator, manga creator, and sculptor Kondoh Akino, whom she likens to Julie Morstad (*cough* faunalia) and I think she's right. Check out her work.


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prosperous_fox is fond of Princesse CamCam, as regular readers will have guessed. She (la Princesse) has posted some proposed tattoos on her blog, which make prosperous_fox think of her friends.


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Thanks to itsolivia, prosperous_fox has some illustrators to report. First, a local Torontonian, Michael Wandelmaier has some fabulous illustrations on favorite themes of animals and imaginary things (uh... and hair). Check out his work:

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