Noelle Stevenson – an illustration major at Maryland Institute College of Art – has started blogging illustrations in a series she calls “The Broship of the Ring”. Check them out here.

These incredibly detailed illustrations for an Indian Mobile phone company were recent Cannes Lions winners. The concept is reminiscent of a creepy arm stretching scene from a 1960′s Sinbad movie…only with a tongue. Now that’s gotta hurt.  The illustrators were Nishikant Palande, Jayvant Tambare, Nilesh Kore, and Mukesh Jadhav.

Illustrator Martin Handford’s Wally is pretty easy to spot for a change in this Dublin Where’s Wally world record attempt over the weekend.

Bloomsday is on the 16th of this month and IGI member Brian Fitzgerald has some work in the Tramyard Gallery in Dalkey.

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Irony of ironies, apparently the real Werner Herzog is to narrate the runaway picture book bestseller Go The Fuck to Sleep. His previous narration duties have included Where’s Waldo.

The Irish Times celebrates Martyn Turner’s 40 years cartooning for the paper. Check out the interview and rogue’s gallery.

The 32nd edition society for news design awards were announced earlier this week – IGI member David McClelland won an ‘Award of Excellence’ for his 9-page comic and cover for The Times “Election’10” supplement.

Working with The Times’ art director Alex Breuer, David illustrated a day-to-day account of the election story from Gordon Brown announcing a general election on 6th April 2010 to the results being announced on 7th May 2010.  You can view more images on David’s portfolio website.

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Brooklyn illustrator and cartoonist Jillian Tamaki has posted several of her pieces created for the Folio Society collection of Irish Myths and Legends on her sketchblog here.

The cartoonist and illustrator, Alfonso Zapico, ‘revelation cartoonist’ prize at the Salón Internacional del Cómic 2010 in Barcelona will host a workshop on comic scripting at the Instituto Cervantes Dublin on Thursday 16th June 6-9pm.  To book a place e-mail:  adx1dub@cervantes.es or phone 01 631 15 33.  Free activity. Limited places available.

Zapico will also be giving a talk on his work Dublinés at SquareBound – an Irish Comics Creators Convention at the Irish Writers Centre on Saturday 18th June at 3pm. The event itself runs all day from 10am-6pm. Adm: €5

Olivier Kugler, a ‘documentary illustrator’ has won the V&A Illustration award in the UK. The 30-page illustrated journal tells the story of the illustrator’s trip with Massih, a truck driver Kugler met in Tehran and accompanied for a four-day journey carrying bottled water down to a small island in the Persian Gulf. Let’s all be documentary illustrators, sounds like great fun.