For two weeks the Company have been marching south through a bitter east wind. Now the weather relents, and the wind turns to the south. The ceiling of grey clouds is replaced by a brilliant clear winter sky.

Rough for a Darth Vader cover that didn't get approved.

Character design progressions from The Secret of Kells (2009), dir. Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey, Cartoon Saloon

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

how to join the maquis

Frank Frazetta

+ Physical comics

To be moral is to end all respectability; the respectability that society recognises as being moral. Ambition, greed, envy, jealousy, violence, competition, destruction, killing – society considers all that moral and therefore very respectable. —Krishnamurti

Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay from January 9, 1910.

Doug Chiang, concept art for Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, 1999

O comfort-killing Night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame! Blind muffled, dark harbor for defame, Grim cave of death, whisp’ring conspirator With close-tongu’d treason and the ravisher!

Brief look at Feb. 11's #StarWars #JarJar #1 one-shot by @marcguggenheim.bsky.social, Ahmed Best, Kieran McKeown and Laura Braga. Main cover's by Taurin Clarke. #StarWarsComics #JarJarBInks #KelleranBeq

Osamu Tezuka

Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories--Tides of Terror comes to its conclusion this week with issue #4, available now! Details: https://bit.ly/4pHPRYg Can Kit Fisto best the monsters and save the station? By @georgemann.bsky.social, @luismorocho.bsky.social, and team, with cover from Eduardo Mello

Vincent Di Fate, “Refueling Station,” the March 1979 cover to Future Life magazine

There are 242 working days in 2026. If you write just one page a day - just 250-300wds, roughly 5 Bsky posts - you will have two full scripts or a novel by New Years Eve. If you write just two pages a day - just 500-600 words - you will have five scripts or one epic novel. Just. Keep. Writing.

Dive into the world of Lone Wolf & Cub and Other Manga Classics from Kazuo Koike with a new @humblebundle.com! Details: https://bit.ly/4quA9Ax Support the @heroinitiative.bsky.social, and get into some legendary manga series!

The end of The Empire Strikes Back. #StarWars

At top left is the “dragster style” ship that Lucas abandoned after seeing the Eagle landers in SPACE:1999, and deciding they looked too similar to this version of the Falcon. The design was scrapped, and the model was refitted and reused as the TANTIVE IV. The cockpit was reused for the new Falcon.

Ian McCaig, concept art for Padme in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, 1999

From: Cannon Fodder (1995), dir. Katsuhiro Otomo, Studio 4°C

Michael Golden

John Mollo costume sketches for “The Empire Strikes Back.”

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

Drew Struzan.

Doug Chiang, concept art for Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, 1995

THX 1138 (1971)

5 years ago today we launched #StarWarsTheHighRepublic w/ LIGHT OF THE JEDI and A TEST OF COURAGE. What an overwhelming, surreal, and incredible journey it’s been. Thank you to all the readers, fans, & creators for joining us on this grand adventure. We still have many more tales to tell!

Star Wars character concept art by Ron Cobb

syzygy, screenshot, dragon 32/64 (1984) www.mobygames.com/game/176252/...

Frank Miller

Michiya Kato shows how they animated the rippling hallway in Paprika (2006), dir. Satoshi Kon, Madhouse

Derelict Ship concept art (1977-78) for Alien by Jean ‘Moebius’ Giraud

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

Osamu Tezuka

Abandoned poster idea for ‘STAR WARS: The Last Jedi’💥

The world of 2026 imagined in Fritz Lang’s METROPOLIS, 1927.

Happy 85th birthday to Hayao Miyazaki ♡

In today’s newsletter, we return for a tour of the Roman pantheon with the second feature on Our Universe, the wildly popular astronomy book by National Geographic. theartofmichaelwhelan.substack.com/p/national-g...

Wow, this is an amazing bundle and a good cause. Check it out. www.humblebundle.com/books/lone-w...

Robert Theodore McCall, 1979

Happy 33rd birthday to Deep Space Nine :) :) :)

Thinking about Ani-morph in 2026

Treebeard with Merry & Pippin, by Alan Lee, a single gorgeous example of his many, many design pieces for Peter Jackson’s Lord Of The Rings movies.

Dave Gibbons

Russ Manning Detail from Classic Star Wars: The Early Adventures 5.

On the set of METROPOLIS, released in 1927, set in the world of 2026.

I love how Chewie dominates the attention and looks like an angry ape in this epic Marvel Star Wars comic cover.