I blame jay ryan.

Here is some of his stuff. I've talked about his book here before, and I foudn an online repository so you can peep.

What I dig is the fact that his illustration is part of the poster, rather than being seperate from the text and layout. The divisions in some of the panes are hand-drawn, not sterile lines drawn witha ruler in a attempt to be totally linear, and...

I could really go on. But here's my try at that kinda thing. This kind of thing may come up again for a poster or a envelope design at some point...