The new book by Massive Attack mixes street art with art history. The evil twins in this screenprint nod to Warhol and Francis Bacon, while the red sun recalls the bloody halo rising behind Munch’s sexually awakening Madonna. Photograph: Robert del Naja
If only all movie merchandising were as considered as this “fan” poster for Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity. Commissioned by Shortlist magazine, its clean imagery and limited black-and-white palette evoke French comics great Moebius in his minimalist-driven ligne claire (clear line) phase. Photograph: Chris Thornley
This much-hyped new “art” game offers a monochrome vision of an empty, drowned world that evokes 18th- and 19th-century etchings. Picture Joseph Michael Gandy’s fantasy of civilisation abandoned or the confines of Piranesi’s prisons softened by a Disney glow. Photograph: PR
This screen-printed poster from a drawing by Swans’ Michael Gira accompanies a new live CD from the merciless noiseniks. Its meaty noose of intestines recalls the febrile, fleshy phantasmagoria of underground comics legend R Crumb and the psychedelic artwork of 60s counterculture “comix” like East Village Other. Photograph: Swans poster
The cover of MIA’s new album borrows from Warhol’s formula for an instant icon: all you need are eyes and a mouth. The red and green colour scheme gives the recipe a hallucinogenic techno update. Photograph: PR
