Ryan Meinerding

Ryan Meinerding worked as a concept artist for Midway games and also recently on Captain America: First Avenger

Al Columbia

Al Columbia Doghead

Doghead is a 48-page comic book by Al Columbia. His first solo publication, it was released by Tundra Publishing in 1992 while Columbia was involved with Alan Moore's Big Numbers. It contains three short stories, two in black and white and one in full color.
A contemporaneous review summed up Doghead dismissively as "some Dave McKean and Bill Sienkiewicz impersonations, some fine colour work and an occasional exchange of witty dialogue between [Columbia's] characters,"[1] while Paul Gravett, in a 2002 essay on Columbia's career, saw in it "hints of his emerging singular identity."[2]
The last page of Doghead includes Columbia's "apologies" to some of his early sources of inspiration: Black Francis, Nick Cave, William S. Burroughs, Dave McKean, David Lynch, Papa Kafka, and J. G. Ballard.

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Ben Olson

Ben Olson is one of my favorite concept artists these days. His imagery is is very real and disturbing. The stuff of nightmares. His rendering of flesh and bone is gut wrenching. His colors are sublime. Many of his concepts will probably never be seen because for the most part vid game companies don't release this stuff. Anyway--here's a taste.

Al Columbia - AMNESIA

AMNESIA-(c)1999 Al Columbia. originally published in Zero Zero (Fantagraphics) . A masterpiece.

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