Peter Pachoumis is a 16 year comic and advertising veteran, working for everyone from DC and Marvel to Disney and Popular Science. I’ve known him for 10 of those years and I’ve always been impressed with his work, showing as it does a keen understanding of human anatomy and strong use of color. He currently has a number of prints up for sale, including the one pictured above, entitled Autumn; part of a planned series of illustrations depicting the seasons.

Prints in store… No, really, they’re in the store! [Artist's Site]

A page of newspaper comic titles by an unknown graphic designer. Completely metal.

UPDATE: Alex posts below:

His name is Michael Deforge. He’s a very talented (and productive) artist from Toronto. You can see his stuff on kingtrash.com and deforgeo.livejournal.com (which I think is where he posted this awesome piece!)

Jon Foster’s “The City Quiet as Death” [the Art Department]

Christopher Sickels uses puppets to create stark, emotive, and strange illustrations for various publications. It amazes me how surreal these are especially when one considers that the same image, rendered in the normal, two dimensional line drawings found in many magazines, would go largely unnoticed.

Red Nose Studio [Artist's Site] : LCSV4

Having documented the battles betwixt warring cephalopods in Feudal Japan, and having failed to convince the denizens of Threadless of the hipster coolness of his t-shirt design, Phineas X. Jones does what he should have done all along and put out another spectacular print with which he shall drain your bank account.

Octopus Samurai [octophant[x]us]

Illustration from Don Quixote by Gustave Doré

Arte – Pinturas – Gustave Dore – Quijote [PENUMBRA] : kagami

I seem to remember seeing this before, though I’ll be damned if I can remember where. The inscription, from what can be made out reads as follows:

To R.H. Barlow, Esq., whose Sculpture hath given Immortality to this trivial Design of his oblig’d of all obdt (obedient) Servant.

Cthulhu
H.P. Lovecraft
11th May, 1934

Barlow was a close friend of Lovecraft and collaborated with him on several stories including, one might reasonably conclude, one of his most famous, The Call of Cthulhu. Lovecraft went so far as to make Barlow his literary executor.

Despite its crude nature, it’s still a great representation of Cthulhu, not only because it is directly from the mind of his creator but also for the inclusion of the multiple, spider-like eyes. Few illustrations of the Lord of R’lyeh come to mind that show him this way.

Cthulhu in the eyes of his creator. [My[confined]Space]