Eric Joyner.

Maybe you already know Eric Joyner's work; lots of people do. The folks at Spectrum Fantastic Art have given him awards; the San Francisco Chronicle has hired him; he's collected by technology executives and actor Andy Richter. But I came to him only after picking up "Robots & Donuts: The Art of Eric Joyner" from Dark Horse Books.

Joyner's robots are often travelers, sometimes through space, sometimes through time, sometimes through discontinuously pastoral landscapes. Modeled, mostly, on old toys from Japan, Joyner's robots have an out-of-time quality, a vintage vision of a future that will never come to pass. They are rendered with visible brush strokes, transforming them from stamped tin to something more organic. The robots, as above, are sometimes at rest. But often they do battle -- with each other and with classic sci-fi monsters,

...And with donuts.

Via: L.A. Times