Art For Art’s Sake #172: Featuring The Bizarre Beauty Of Iain Laurie

Welcome one and all to another installment of Art For Art’s Sake, giving you a little pick-me-up of comics gorgeousness each and every week here at Comicon. Another delicious assortment of art this week, all ending with a focus on Iain Laurie’s disturbingly wonderful work.

Are you sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin with a little classic Jack Cole Plastic Man…

More classic work now, John Romita Sr –

Jack Davis –

Jean Claude Mezieres doing Fifth Element

Javier Rodriguez – Doctor Strange

Jeremy Brooks – Goblin

Constantine sketch by John McCrea –

Kevin Maguire – Marvel profiles…

Khary Randolph – a fantastic bit of cover design…

Lee Gatlin – Dr Strange makes another mistake…

Liana Kangas – Kate Bishop…

Windsor McCay – Little Nemo in Slumberland (1906)

Val Semeiks – Lord Pumpkin and Green Goblin

Marc Aspinall – America Chavez cover

Michael Cho – Fantastic Four and The Avengers…

 

And now, to end this week, it’s time to look at the bizarre and disturbingly brilliant work of Iain Laurie.

You may well know of his work from comics such as And Then Emily Was Gone and The Edge Off, Love Is Love, and more – all rather magnificent. I first came across his work in 2011 with Roachwell, something I described as, “a comic of deliberately obtuse strips, surreal moments, a world where things just happen, strange things, bizarre things, dark, twisted little things.” And that’s something that you can still say about his work and it’s all the better for it.

Follow him on Twitter and Instagram, buy his work here, and enjoy these delights…