Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

I can’t get enough of Carlos Vermut. Every single illustration and comic sample on his site will tell you why. Don’t miss his blog either.

Haven’t you ever wondered what it would have been like if Edward Gorey had illustrated The Trouble with Tribbles from the original Star Trek series? Wonder no longer! (via MetaFilter)

Say hello to Russ Street. His textural graphic illustrations are like candy to me. I wish there was more to see!

Oh wow, this is great stuff. Anthony Lister creates paintings (and some sculptures) that poke fun at, and pay tribute to, your favourite superheroes.

(Thanks, Graeme!)

I’m loving the nerdy stick-figure antics over at XKCD. They satisfy the wannabe code-poet in me.

XKCD was just featured as a notable webcomic in PC Magazine’s Top 100 Undiscovered Websites.

Our own Jay Stephens needs your help:

I’ll admit it, I’m upset. News from way up high at Cartoon Network is that we have to change the name of our animated series from ‘The Secret Saturdays’, a title that everybody I’ve ever spoken to loves (including very nearly everyone at Cartoon Network itself!), to ‘The Secret Adventures Of Zak Saturday’, which sounds remarkably similar to ‘The Sweet Life Of Zack and Cody’ or ‘The Life and Times Of Juniper Lee’. Ugh. The worst part is that the new title isn’t as good at reflecting what our show is really about… it’s like calling the Fantastic Four ‘Johnny Storm and his amazing Friends’. Please let CN know which title you like best here. Thanks.

If you’ve got more time on your hands than money and you really want a Cintiq, here’s a step-by-step demonstration of how Drew Northcott hacked together a homebrew version using a spare Wacom tablet, a laptop, and a monitor.

Here’s a video of the thing in action.

(Thanks, Charlene!)

Tango sez:

My seriously talented friend Peter Chan just finished up his studies at Art Center (entertainment design) and is seeking work. He’s got a mad hand at sketching, a ridiculous wrist at the wacom tablet, and an eye for the new.

See more of Peter’s impressive work at Design Verb.

Online Videos by Veoh.com

In Abductees (1995), an animated short by Paul Vester, survivors of alien abductions share their experiences in a mix of video, animation, and therapy recording sessions. It’s equal parts sweet and strange.

(via David Thompson)

14th Dimension ER is a stylish animated medical comedy from The Nursery in which a doctor, upon cutting open a myserious organ, is sucked into a wormhole that takes him into the 14th Dimension where medicine isn’t exactly practiced as he remembers.

A companion advice series, 2nd Opinion answers people’s medical questions direct from the 14th Dimension.