Tony DiMauro’s artwork for the short story "Hot Damn" appears in the November, 2011 issue of Playboy, as a runner-up in the annual Playboy College Fiction Contest.  Tony is currently enrolled in the MFA Illustration program at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. (more)

Anthony Freda will have an exhibition of new paintings at Trifecta Gallery in Las Vegas from November 3 - 25th, 2011. (more)

Eric Hanson’s regular back page feature for the Macalester College magazine this month illustrated an essay by an author with a penchant for writing werewolf novels. (more)

Leon Mussche created the infographics for a new line of high-end European skin care products. The illustrations show, in 3 steps, how to apply the cream to prevent wrinkles, “which apparently is very complicated,” notes Leon wryly. (more)

Jason Mecier has chosen some of his favorite icons from the silver screen, creating large-scale portraits made exclusively out of Red Vines licorice.  LICORICE FLIX, an exhibition of this work, will open this Friday at iam8bit in Los Angeles. (more)

Sean Tiffany created this cover for the first in a series of young reader books about an average kid who wakes up one day… Super!  We can look forward to Sean’s character gracing at least two more volumes in the near future. (more)

Michael Morgenstern gives us a look at some recent work.  For the Polish fashion magazine Zwierciadlo, Michael has been illustrating a series of interviews with author/psychologist Wojciech Eichelberger; here are “Masculinity” and “Religion.”  (more)

Ellen Byrne’s elegant, but haunting, image illustrates for an article on eating disorders in older women for Arlington Magazine. (more)

Jennifer L. Meyers’ 10 page comic, “Puss in Boots,” for Jim Henson’s Storyteller Anthology previewed recently at New York Comicon… So it’s okay to show you a couple of pages before it publishes officially for Holiday 2011. (more)

Tim O’Brien breathes life into history with this portrait of young Abraham Lincoln, gracing the cover of the premier issue of National Geographic’s Exploring History. (more)