What a treat this week to get the Sunday NY Times Magazine and see this great Speed Racer homage on the cover by Nathan Fox, whose work I’ve always noticed and liked, as part of a series of illustrations for this week’s story about Toyota.

Fox has a loose, brushy style and pop sense of color that often gets him compared to Tomer Hanuka or Paul Pope; I think that all three of them are diverging a lot lately, but that latter comparison would be more apt in this series, where Fox let a manga influence really take over, and composed the drawings in panels, which I haven’t seen too often in his commercial work. Wish there were larger and clearer images online; illustration really gets the short shrift sometimes in the digital version, and these were especially beautiful in print.

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