rare bill watterson art

http://ignatz.brinkster.net/cbillart.html
http://www.geekosystem.com/bill-watterson-college-comics/
http://drawn.ca/archive/tag/bill-watterson/

Unlike the painting that Bill Watterson just did for the Team Cul de Sac project, these drawings are not new work; in fact, they were done early in his career, before Calvin and Hobbes became such a success. Artist Thom Buchanan posted them at his blog My Delineated Life, which is a treasure trove of interesting illustrations from times gone by.
Watterson did these as a freelance job for the Mark Twain Journal, and it’s kind of interesting to see how consistent the public discourse is: These cartoons, done in 1983 and based on material that’s about 100 years older, are about the same things that cartoons are about now: Cats and corruption in Congress.
At The Daily Cartoonist, where I first spotted this item, Nevin Martell contributed a few more Mark Twain cartoons, including one on another timeless topic, the irritations of modern technology—in this case, the telephone.

Kyle Baker

A comic artist who is a cartoonist and often does a humorist's skew to his designs and way of drawing things.  Sounds interesting.

Tim Sale

Tim Sale, is an Eisner Award-winning comic book artist. He produced popular work like Batman: The Long Halloween, Batman: Dark Victory, and books for Marvel Comics with characters such as Spider-Man, Daredevil, and Hulk. He is currently working on artwork for the popular TV show Heroes. For more information on Tim Sale, please visit his Website. 

Tony Moore

Walking Dead artist.  A tv series exists because of his comic work of the same name.  Really good for layout and composition.  Will Eisner award winner 2004 & 2005

 

Another artist, Charlie Adlard worked on walking dead series as well.  In fact did most of it.  Tony Moore did only the first few books or so.  However, Adler's work isn't as cinematic as Moore's.  The shots taken straight out of the comics for the series are from Moore's work.

On the left is Adlard's work, on the  right is one of Moore's.  Notice that because Moore uses a hierarchy of line, value and contrast absent in Adlard's work, his panel has a more cinematic sense of depth and realism.  Adlard is very comic booky and more abstract and flat in that sense.  Not that he can't draw, Adlard just doesn't have Moore's finesse.

John Byrne

Study the fuck outta this guys layout and sequencing ability.  This guy is incredible at laying out a comic page and making excellent choices.

http://www.artofjohnbyrne.com/gallery/
http://www.artofjohnbyrne.com/gallery/pencils/

Also, he's been at it awhile:
http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/alpha-flight

Alex Toth Samples

Great iconic artist.  Study for black and white.