Jesse Wiedel -- paintings of poetic misfits in a gritty world
ARTISTS: cartoonists and illustrators
Tom Bunk -- humor artist for MAD, Garbage Pail Kids, Silly Cds, and many more!
David Burke -- monsters paintings, and cool Monster Babies
Leslie Cabarga -- cool fonts, art books, graphic design, illustration, stock art
David Coulson -- classic warm-hearted cartoons, illustrations, lettering
Robert Crumb -- has comics, books, prints, cards, sculptures, etc. by Crumb and family members. (Site founded by Jesse Crumb)
Duane Flatmo -- murals, cartoon-cubism illustrations and wild human-powered kinetic sculptures. Site requires Flash.
Rick Geary -- amazingly felt drawings and graphic novels
Jeff Jordan -- surreal paintings ("National Geographic on acid", as one viewer said), and Mars Volta (and others) album covers.
Jay Lynch -- has done underground comix, illustrations, hundreds of Wacky Packages roughs, Garbage Pail Kids gags, other Topps projects, the Meanie Babies card backs, and Silly CDs gags
Mark Newgarden -- art director for Topps' Garbage Pail Kids, Gruesome Greetings, Toxic High and more. See his new animation, books, and humor projects.
Scott Shaw! -- master cartoonist, animator, and art director
Brian Taylor's Candy Killer -- amazing, precise, goofy cartoon character designs. Retro-style vector art. Sometimes 3-D.
Adam White -- t-shirts and graphic art with strong pop design
Skip Williamson -- one of the masters of underground comix. Very nice cartoony paintings
Jim Woodring -- beautiful, mystical cartoon paintings and comics (JIM, FRANK) -- Outstanding!
The Ink People -- local arts organization for printmaking, all media art classes,
free community access computing. The Ink People has a gallery in Eureka, CA that hosts monthly shows, and they help artists place shows in local businesses
Garbage Pail Kids World -- a Topps sponsored site. Has GPK animations, and a "build your own GPK" feature, virtual GPKs. Fun! (Also shows where to find GPK retailers near you)
GEEPEEKAY.com -- Matt has many nice features here on GPKs.
GPK Island -- Garbage Pail Kids and similar cards for sale.
Hilltop-Auctions -- Ebay store specializing in Garbage Pail Kids and video games
Abrams -- publisher of high-quality books on Topps' GPKs, Wacky Packages, Mars Attacks, etc.
Blab World -- anthology magazine of experimental comics and graphic design, pop culture,
and good weird art
Comic Images -- trading cards and/or dolls (some years back they co-published Meanie Babies cards with Dark Horse)
Dark Horse Comics --
comic books, graphic novels, and related products
Fantagraphics
-- alternative and underground comics. Artists include Crumb, Clowes, Woodring and Ware. Ask for their catalog. They also publish The Comics Journal, with news, criticism, good cartoonist interviews.
Last Gasp Comics --
underground comics, progressive art books, counter-culture books.
Not for minors.
Artificial
-- experimental computer programs for graphics.
Auto-Illustrator
-- Adrian Ward's vector drawing software, a parody of Adobe Illustrator,
comes with many cool random drawing tools. You can even write
plug-ins for it. Good documentation. Demo and full versions were available.
Oops, sorry, it's no longer sold. However, check out Autoshop and some of his other programs.
Grafik
Dynamo! -- Bold 3-panel layout combines random text balloons with random images from blogs and news sources on the web. The
panels change as you watch.
Harold Cohen's "Aaron" program -- draws random figures and landscapes.
Laff Randomizer -- by Shmorky (Dave Kelly) -- a great example of randomly generated web comics, done in Flash.
NewsComic
-- by Dave Miller, recycles and chops up live news (RSS feeds) to build stories, using a 3-panel layout.
One-Armed Carl
-- random panel sequences of Scott McCloud's comic. First and last panel stay constant. (On recent visits, page doesn't work right: no spin/reload)
Bud's Art Books --
(formerly Bud Plant Comic Art) new and recent books on comics, fantasy art, illustration, illustrators of the past, calendars, cards, pin-up art. Extensive selection, great catalogs.
Lambiek.net --
Amsterdam comics store's website. Look up comic artists in the Comiclopedia - with more than 11,000 international comic artists, complete with biographies and samples of their artwork. Also has art exhibitions.
Non-Sports Update
-- slick color magazine with trading card industry news and ads. They also publish information on Topps' Wacky Packages.
The Wrapper
-- newsprint magazine with ads for card and sticker dealers
Comic-Con International
-- the huge pop culture convention meets in San Diego each summer. Meet hundreds of artists, writers, editors, publishers, fans, collectors, dealers. Also runs the Alternative Press Expo and WonderCon.
The San Diego Comic Fest
-- a much smaller, more intimate convention meets in San Diego in the fall. Meet artists, writers, editors, publishers, fans, collectors, dealers. Also has panels and workshops.
Lines on Paper -- this site is in favor of comic books. Are you?
Phil Yeh / Cartoonists Across America
-- promoting literacy, creativity, arts, using cartoons and humor. Founder Phil Yeh and other artists create books, paint murals, take part in school assemblies, conventions, conferences and other public events for all ages throughout the world
John Heinrich
-- the steel guitarist's site. Includes some MP3's of his work
Pixels3D -- great Macintosh 3D modeling and animation software.