It’s unsurprising that Russian artist Uno Moralez cites David Lynch’s “romanticism and mystery” as a major influence on his pixelated brand of supernatural noir, but his baldly computerized comics really do something unique with the aesthetic, and not just with the vintage graphic art form. Moralez produces perfect little tableaux, sometimes in a short series (but rarely more than 5 panels), from which a bizarre plot can be immediately intimated, but never pinned down. There is ghostly and monstrous terror of course, but there is also a kind of vampy sexuality and crude violence that feels very classic, hard-boiled suspense. Moralez described his approach in a 2007 interview with The Comics Journal:

My short stories derive from images which don’t fit in a one single image, plotwise. This is not exactly a comic, that’s why I draw only key scenes leaving out details. And then reader’s imagination starts to work. That is important.

Moralez also lists among his influences any Marvel comics he could get ahold of during his childhood behind the Iron Curtain and Japanese manga and “translations of ancient mystical books”—quite the dastardly cocktail.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
via Beautiful Decay

Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Can you identify these pixelated versions of famous works of art?