Lau­rent Impeduglia’s giant, sprawl­ing scenes are pretty excit­ing to look at. They are engag­ing with bold uses of color and touches on (my) nos­tal­gia with pop cul­ture ref­er­ences abound.

Lau­rent cre­ates a world where the sugary-sweet char­ac­ters, car­toons, and the cud­dly are over­ran destruc­tion. Nat­ural dis­as­ters take place, wash­ing a over­cast tone to the active com­po­si­tions, give it a very post-apocalyptic feel. Cou­pled with the allu­sion to power strug­gles and our iden­ti­fi­ca­tion to the types of char­ac­ters (one of which includes Astro Boy), it also seems to speak to not just this fic­ti­tious world, but our own.

All images via his a href=“http://www.impeduglia.com/”>website.