Curio: One Hundred Characters

Editors note: Soothe your eyeballs for a moment -- you've read enough articles on Oscar this hour -- with Alexa's beauteous Curio series. We'll get back to Oscar just after dinner. Yum-yum.

Alexa here. Recently, while doing a google image search (I can't even remember for what), I came across the illustrations of a Spanish artist named David Peña (a.k.a. Puño).  As a personal project, David has set out to arm himself with pen and paper (and a little digital artistry) and record his memory of certain characters from his 100 favorite films of all time. He's inspired by everything from 80s heartwarmers to French nihilism to Hong Kong Martial Arts comedy.  You can see all the characters he has completed to date here. Here's a selection of some of my favorites.

Comments

[NATHANIEL R]

wow. these are great. I especially love CARRIE (the blood and hte expression) and Barry Egan... and I really love this guy's bold way with color.