American illustrator John Hendrix  has a very interesting blog post about his recent cover illustration for The Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association which you can read here.

Nice animated video of illustrations by Carson Ellis for Colin Meloy‘s (lead singer of the Decemberists) book Wildwood.

Myself and Craig talk to illustrator BRENB about Offset 2012 on the Comic Cast Christmas Special podcast as well as chatting with artist Declan Shalvey on his recent work for Marvel and Northlanders. Suffice to say, there will also be reviewing of comics and plenty of giggling. Listen here.

Illustration by Jordie Bellaire.

Olly Moss has designed a new poster for  Hayao Miyazaki’s classic 1988 animated film My Neighbor Totoro. 400 limited edition prints  go on sale Friday, December 16th from Mondo.

Tonight (Thursday 8th December), Hollywood Babylon, Dublin’s Midnight Movie Film Club, is hosting an exhibition of re-imagined movie posters at 6.30pm at Block T in Smithfield, Dublin. The strictly limited screenprinted versions of the posters from the movie nights are up for show and purchase including Philip Barrett’s version of the Crank 2 Poster above. It’s free in and there will be drinks, music, popcorn and fun.

Adrian Tomine‘s cover for the latest issue of In The City.

California’s Gallery Nucleus “has invited more than 30 artists to pay homage to Jim Henson. This universally beloved visionary whose inspiring concepts and characters have impacted our culture in a monumental way. The collection will showcase a variety of mediums from a roster of professionals who are also genuine fans.” The Lovers, the Dreamers, and Me – A Jim Henson Tribute Exhibition opens on Dec 10th. The above piece from the show is by Graham Annable. See more here.

Leading up to the release of the new Muppet film, illustrator/designer David Vordtriede is posting 26 portraits of Muppet characters that corresponds to each letter of the alphabet. You can view the project so far here.

Northlanders #45, an American comic book written by Brian Wood and published by DC/Vertigo, is out now with art by one of Ireland’s greatest comic book artists – Declan Shalvey. You can see more pages from the comic on his blog here.

Commercial and comic artist John Watkiss has created some wonderfully eerie black light paintings (acrylic on plastic) just in time for Halloween.