You can't fuck with the bad ass illustrations of The Phillipines' Wham Bacabac. You can't even fuck with his name. Wham Bacabac? Really? Come on! That almost sounds as dope as that tiger looks. The vibrancy contained within Bacabac's work infuses an electric realism within the abstract psychedelia of his subject matter. The vision and flair present in Bacabac's illustrations really stand out as the optical suggestions of the color palette in use, coupled with the subject matter brings with it a subtle suggestive discourse on the transitional quality inherent within real life and the "Twilight Zone." Check out more...

"Illustrators articulate what a photograph cannot. Using an array of techniques and styles, illustrators evoke stories and meaning in a variety of mediums, from editorial illustration in magazines and newspapers, to comics books, to activist media. And as their tasks over the years have become less informational and more expressive, their individual voice as artists becomes all the more critical and beautiful, revealing an exciting and awe-inspiring age of illustration."

London illustrator Mr. Bingo's new book Hate Mail has an interesting back story in terms of its culmination..."People really really want to be hated." via JP