Link roundup

1. New Threadless challenge:

We’re challenging you to create a design inspired by one of 12 college mascots or symbols — Alabama, Auburn, Cal, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, LSU, Miami, UCLA, Washington, USC, or Iowa. This is really a series of challenges; we’ll print 12 separate designs, with 12 separate prize packs.

2.Pin-up illustrations art show (NSFW).

3. Do all major brands' slogans work just as well for condoms? Via.

4. The Kickstarter for Brandon Boyer's video game blog raised almost $100,000 (twice the goal).

5. Josh Howard is selling prints of that animated Star Trek The Next Generation illustration I posted the other day.

Ame-Comi Mera cosplay

Ame-Comi Mera cosplay modeled by artist Ashley Hay (the figure is on sale here), and Ashley created a cute Mera Munny that's on sale here.

The costume was made by Helen Aure, whose own gallery is full of cosplay that's a little too racy to post, such as this Red Sonja.

And photography is by Britt Dietz, whose various projects include recreating George Petty's classic pinups:

Link roundup

1. There's a free Alice: Madness Returns iPad app. Via.

2. A little too racy to post - - Velma pin-up by Jason Chalker.

3. $15 t-shirt sale at Design By Humans this weekend.

Illustration roundup

Attraction poster for Disney California Adventure's Grizzly River Run.




Whale hunter by Matt Taylor on sale here.




Eowyn and the Nazgul by Federico Piatti.




Batgirl pinup by Jason Chalker on sale here (for $15).



X-Muppets by Rahzzah. Via.

*Buy Disneyland posters at eBay.

Coca-Cola cans featuring cans Varga girls

Bulletproof designed Coca-Cola cans featuring cans Varga girls for Coke's 125th Anniversary. Via.

*Buy pin-up collections at Amazon.

Illustration roundup

Kyle Maclachlan by Chris Wahl.




Tinkerbell on a tank by Adam Temple.





Naughty and Nice: The Good Girl Art of Bruce Timm. (I don't think this is available for order yet.) Via.




3D MST3K by Jack Rossi.




Skull helmet by Jason Levesque for sale.

*Buy Dune toys at eBay.

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1. Megamind concept art.

2. You Only Live Twice by Dan Hipp on sale here.

3. Lots of new pin-up illustrations posted here (mostly NSFW).

*Buy pin-up calendars at Amazon.

Link roundup

1. Best Buy decided it was a bad idea to give away free corsets with copies of the rated PG-13 movie Burlesque. Via.

2. Pin-up featuring Carmen Sandiego as a sexy spy.

3. Watch as a a month's worth of labour is compressed into three seconds of screentime of Batman: The Brave and the Bold.

*Buy travel posters at Amazon.

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1. French baguette vending machine (the video is at the bottom). Via.

2. Thomas Barnett on Libya.

3. Pin-up drawing of the White Queen. And this is a cool vintage pin-up.

*Buy Emma Frost art at eBay.

Pin-Up show at Gallery Nucleus

Poster Peepshow: The Art of the Pin-Up opens tomorrow at Gallery Nucleus and features several paintings by Glen Orbik. He created some of the covers for DC Comics' Pulp Heroes annuals.

*Buy pin-up calendars at Amazon.

Win a pin-up, help horses (also, check out these horrifying tattoos!)

Ed Mironiuk is offering one of his pin-ups for charity (to benefit horses). You can buy a chance to win for $1 here.

Also, while at his site, I discovered these tattoos by Robert Hernandez:





Robert has various goods on sale here. (And Ed has pin-ups on sale here.) Via.

*Buy pin-up collections at Amazon.

Cheescake pin-up from the world of Fallout

New Fallout desktop wallpapers posted here.

*Buy Fallout bobbleheads at eBay.

Pin-up girl chocolate

Packaging for Mindy's Hot Chocolate by Kyle Tezak. Via.

*Buy pin-up calendars at Amazon.

Inappropriate Golden Books prints now on sale

Prints of Josh Cooley's Inappropriate Golden Books are now on sale for as low as $25.

Relatedly, Bill Presing posted more of the "54 Intercontinental Cuties" playing card deck he's working on with Cooley:




*Previously: Tattooed Pin-Up Girls and Painted Skulls.

*Buy LIttle Golden Books at Amazon.

Pin-Up Girl playing card project (link roundup)

Bill Pressing and Josh Cooley are putting together a deck of playing cards called Intercontinental Cuties.

And a few more links:

1. Seth Godin says if you read his blog, you're an elite.

2. 2003 interview with Dick Wolf discussing his advertising career and how he did research for Law and Order.

3. Oedipus and The Sphinx, illustrated by Andy Erekson.

*Previously: LOLcats Trading Cards.

*Buy sketch cards at eBay.

Postcard giveaway (and some cheesecake)

The terrific photography blog From Me to You is giving away a set of postcards (look closely, she's holding them) in honor of its first blogversary. Via.

*Previously: Dungeons and Dragons Pin-Up Girls.

*Buy pin-up collections at Amazon.