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.
 

 

 
More of Moralez’ remarkable artworks after the jump…..
 

Alexis Poles’ pixelated version of René Magritte’s 1964 painting ‘The Son of Man.’ 
 
If you have ever fancied hanging a great work of art on your wall but thought a mass produced copy too tacky, then these pixelated prints by Alexis Poles might just be the answer.

Using famous paintings as his starting point, Alexis has produced his own pixelated masterpieces—from Leonardo’s well-kent face of “Mona Lisa” to Andy Warhol’s “Chairman Mao” and Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss.” I find these pixelated masterpieces rather appealing—in part because of the original source material but also because of the way in which each picture have been rendered into beautiful cubes of color.

Poles is a graphic design student at Central Saint Martins, London, and his images are all available for purchase via his site Pixology. Each image would be printed on 160gr matt inkjet thermal wax paper and is available in any size.
 

Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ (1893).
 

Unmistakeable: Leonardo Da Vinci’s ‘La Gioconda or Mona Lisa’ circa 1503-06.
 

Another recognizable face: Andy Warhol’s ‘Chairman Mao’ (1972).
 
More pixel perfection, after the jump…