Gregory Crewdson was born in 1962 and received a BA at SUNY, Purchase and an MFA at Yale University. His photographs are included in numerous museums and public collections around the world. A European retrospective of his work began at Kunstverein Hannover, Germany (2005) and traveled to institutions including Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; and the Hasselblad Center, Sweden. Crewdson is a faculty member of the Department of Photography at Yale University and lives in New York City.

His photographs are completely staged odd realities that make you look twice. There is a sense of deja vu with his work, a sense that something is just not right.

John Burgerman studied art foundation in Bournville, Birmingham and then Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University.

His work is hand-drawn characters. He said, "Even though it's often scanned into the computer I don't want it looking too clean and 'photoshopped'." The characters are often linked together in one seemingly connected line.

His influences range from art shows to computer games, Saturday morning cartoons, and adverts to sweet wrappers and root vegetables.

Frank was my roomie in undergrad and the guy I got into any trouble with. We have since parted ways but still keep in touch quite often. He has revamped his website from the ground up and warrants a mention here if not solely for the crazy background on his home page but more importantly for his amazing prints/paintings he's been creating.

From his website:
"My work investigates the distortions of language and logic, by looking at ways in which technology can influence perception. It does this by exploring instinct and irrational comprehension. When I take the everyday person as my subject it is put through a process in which its features are distorted, suppressed, or intensified in the service of expressing something beneath or behind the observable surface. That is, something which is best implied in the slippage between the recognizable and what is unexplained or mysterious.

In my work there exists a fascination with the relationships between private and public, reality and fiction, object and representation, and also the dynamic interplay between the individual and structures or masses. Some of my processes include: disrupting narrative flow, piling up disjointed fragments, incorporating references to prior images and texts, isolating figures to emphasize their role as personifications of concepts, and using images with multiple associations to draw attention to many layers of meaning and the necessity of interpretation. All these means serve to frustrate a straightforward reception of the image, which would consume the work for the story told, or the information conveyed."

I came across Travis Millard's site Fudge Factory Comics when researching for my super heroes project. Sort of reminds me of the old Garbage Pail Kids cards I used to collect when I was a kid.