Link Round-Up: May 3, 2011

Captain America movie poster by Zenithuk

Also don't miss his The Thing and X-Wings for Victory posters

30 Nerdy Wedding Cakes from BuzzFeed.

Check out “Calvin and Hobbes” creator Bill Watterson’s first piece of art publicly seen in 16 years. It is being donated to the Team Cul de Sac fundraising project for Parkinson’s research.

Disney is updating the hitchhiking ghosts in the Haunted Mansion using state-of-the-art technology. They’ll be doing more than just hitchhiking with you!


This kite-aerial photography (KAP) gallery flies through Seattle, NW Washington, Peace Arch, and a Burning Man festival.

Mimi & Eunice is a comic by artist Nina Paley.  The comic touches on Free Culture, artistic struggles, internet drama, and, of course, poop.

Peeps of Art and Literature

Mash-Up: Disney / Star Wars

Donald Duck as Luke Skywalker

Usually, Mickey Mouse is always the one to be portrayed as Luke Skywalker, which does make more sense, but I've always loved Donald Duck and wanted to draw him as the hero from Tatooine.

Nathan H. Boyd has created a three-part series of Disney / Star Wars mash-ups.

[ Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 ]

Lego Creations: Portal Scene

Are you still there? by Brandon Bannerman

In a follow-up to last week's round-up of Portal Lego creations, here's another great piece by Brandon Bannerman, this time depicting a scene in the test chamber.

Mash-Up: Dad Space / Simpsons

The Simpsons meets Dead Space by Joe Spiotto

This was an interesting one. I had moved onto Dead Space after wrapping up work on the Simpsons, but the game was still in development for about another year. I had some downtime on Dead Space, and I was lent out to The Simpsons team for about a week. I drew this up for the studio as an homage to what I knew was going to be a great classic game. The problem was that the Simpsons Game was going to be released before Dead Space was even announced. I'm not sure if it made it into the game or not, but they did turn this into a poster that was hung up around the studio for a while.

Sculpture: Junktimus Prime

Junktimus Prime by Rachel Blackman

The valiant leader of the Autobots, as fashioned out of recycled scrap metal, which gives him a vaguely steampunk-ish look. Seen in an artist's booth at the Fremont Solstice Festival. Price: $290

Mash-Up: The Serenity Club

The Serenity Club by Kari Fry from RIPT Apparel

The Breakfast Club: Inara as the Beauty, Mal as the Jock, Jayne as the Bully, Simon as the Nerd, River as the Creepy Girl.

Artist Kari Fry writes: "It was a tough call, but I had to make it a direct reference to The Breakfast Club poster, which is five characters. I thought about shoehorning more characters in, but I needed to stay true to the iconic original"

Link Round-Up: May 2, 2011

Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Adam Juresko

The Great Showdowns is the Tumblr of watercolor artist Scott Campbell

Hobbitish is a site that collects the various cover and interior paintings and illustrations of The Hobbit from versions around the world.

LightSpeed Magazine interviews artist Julie Dillon

The Photopic Sky Survey is a 5,000 megapixel, 360 degree panorama of the entire night sky stitched together from 37,440 exposures.

A preview of what World Peas might look like.

A Tumblr devoted to Minimal Movie Posters