Sean Gordon Murphy

Official site here.
Interview here.

Francis Bacon Documentary

Francis Bacon bio here

*ESSENTIAL READING: 

Brutality of Fact (Interviews with Francis Bacon) - Buy it here

E.H. Shepard drawings

"...Christopher Robin finished the mouthful he was eating and said carelessly: 'I saw a Heffalump to-day, Piglet.'"

There's a great collection of the original Winnie the Pooh drawings over at BibliOdyssey.

Double Take

art by Art Adams

Whenever I see the above cover, I see the Authority rather than Agents of Atlas. Maybe it's just because Jimmy Woo is looking so much like Jack Hawksmoor and the "looking -down-on-us-from-a-huddle" pose doesn't help much either...

art by Frank Quitely

Dan Clowes Apple Commercial

I guess that's not Annette Benning afterall...

Learn the stories behind Hollywood studio logos here.

This thing looks like that other thing...

Rosamond from the Nate the Great novels and Emily the Strange from Hot Topic

Check out more swipes at "You thought we wouldn't notice..."

Barnaby Ward

More here.