Dilek Baykara is an illustrator who was born and raised in the woods of northern New Jersey but is currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Baykara's illustrations take on a storybook feel with a contemporary twist, depicting sepia scenes of flapper girls and forests, not to mention the fabulous David Bowie. Baykara attended the School of Visual Arts for Illustraion. Baykara's artwork is versatile, capturing more mature imagery as well as retro and contemporary graphic subject matter.  

"Bargain Bin Blasphemy" is a blog run by this dude who buys discount records from thrift stores and turns them into Satan-worshipping works of art. Bargain Bin has created such masterpieces as Michael Jackson's "Killer," The Beach Boys' "Endless Murder," "The Satanic Side of Cher," "Killy Joel Eats Shit" and the perennial "Satan" and Garfunkel's "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Pain." Bargain Bin has found the dark side of all these musical classics and catalogues them in diligent fashion on his blog. Hit this guy up if you're looking for some kitschy Satanic  remastering of your favorite Simon and Garfunkel Album. As Bargain Bin would say, "NOG, SATAN, AND THE DARK WAY."  

Atelier Olschinsky creates digital landscapes that are design, pattern, image and map at the same time. Based in Vienna, Austria, Olschinsky's work consumes the viewer into these ebbing realms of color and shape. His handling of digital media is astounding, lending him the ability to create ostensibly any imagined world he might conceive of. The compositions are meant to draw on organic forms, mimicking and expanding on naturally occurring patterns.  

Steven Ketchum is a 29 year old designer and artist living in Brooklyn, NY. These multi-media paintings reflect a sense of confusion, anxiety or conflict as Ketchum sees it in the world. Ketchum says that his work "depicts dualities and the friction opposing forces present." The work depicts representative portions of bodies, facies and limbs, while each drawing devolves into curvilinear swaths of paint, representing fields of flux and ambiguity. These paint swaths are incredibly evocative and strange, giving these drawings a mysterious and dynamic element. We love these weird drawings. Ketchum spends his time drawing, reading, running, practicing Muay Thai and sleeping. 

Violane and Jeremy is a graphic arts studio located in France. The two artists are designers, illustrators and also producers. They work in art direction, graphic identity, website, publishing and video production. These pieces are some of those the studio has put out. The lovely, hard-worked pencil tones evoke fantastical visions of flowers and beards, illustrations that are both fun and thoughtful at the same time. These illustrations have a nostalgic quality, pulling cues from the absurdist imagery of Rene Magritte and the kind of cobblestone characters from 18th century France.   

Jeff Ladouceur is a self-taught artist who divides his time between New York and Vancouver, BC. He is represented by Ziehersmith in New York. Ladouceur's paintings are iconic and bold yet mysterious and multi-layered at the same time. Monochromatic, textured drawings that incorporate elements of old-time cartoons with props and visual cues from art history and the likes of Salvador Dali, Ladouceur's illustrations are strange, hybrid depictions of a wandering mind.   

Lisa Perrin's work is informed by the humorous and strange world of Eastern European Jewish folk tales. While influenced by this facet of culture, she only references it, allowing for a larger and more varied audience to enjoy her illustrations. She's modernize the old world with interesting applications such as Yiddish sayings on postcards and tea towels. Her works is very detailed and lovely in its careful handling of color and tone.   

Minjae Lee is a self-taught fine artist who uses mainly markers and pencils to create these vivid and gorgeously detailed portraits. Created on large sheaves of paper, the portraits are expansive and myopic at the same time, composed from painstakingly layered patterns, symbols and details. Minjae Lee is only 23, yet his work has attained a great response from many private collectors and art enthusiasts around the world. He draws inspiration from people, emotions and nature.   

Bob Flynn was born in Buxton, Maine and was raised on a steady diet of cartoons. He currently resides in Boston where his Director of Art & Animation at FableVision Studios. Driven by an obsession with everything weird and cartoony, he keeps busy doodling creatures and characters to spin into comics. Flynn is the co-creator of Heeby-Jeeby Comics, featuring goofy, bizarre and nonsensical comics for all ages. His work has appeared in Nickelodeon Magazine, and he writes and creates for Spongebob Comics. He is also a character designer for Bravest Warriors.