The Art of Illustration

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I love illustration; it might be my favorite visual art form outside of movies. But I can never find comics at the bookstore that are interesting to me. They are either in a style I don't find appealing or too much of the same thing all the way through. I wish fewer comics looked like this:


















And more like this:












This last one courtesy of Tom Humberstone, who did this one-off illustration for the book Let the Right One In. The first one is from Watchmen, and as I look at it now, it's pretty cool, at least in small doses.

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