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Alex Maleev’s Breathtaking Hank Howard Painting Revealed, Five Days To Launch

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The-Complete-HANK-HOWARDBad Idea has unveiled the stunning cover to The Complete HANK HOWARD ultra-deluxe hardcover. Beautifully painted by superstar artist, Alex Maleev (Batman, Daredevil).

One of the most talented and respected artists in comics, Maleev rarely ventures outside of the big two. An Eisner award-winning master illustrator, known for his seminal work on Daredevil, with frequent collaborator Brian Michael Bendis, which became the visual template for the hit Netflix television adaptation.

For Hank Howard, Pizza Detective, Maleev paints a stunning vision of a Hollywood, Florida besieged by pizza crime. His painting is both reminiscent for and a modernization of the evocative paperback pulps covers that adorned crime and mystery novels of the 1920s and 1930s, while simultaneously invoking, through color, modernist fare such as the work of Sean Baker and A24 in The Florida Project. Against it all, he casts Hank as the prototypical detective of noir cinema in the vein of such giants as Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade and Ed Exley.

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Lumen Prize Announces Winners of 13th Annual Competition

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Left to right: UchanSun, AI Nüshu; Keiken, Spirit Systems of Soft Knowing ༊*·˚;
Chia Amisola, We Are Only Moving Towards Each Other.


The Lumen Prize—the world’s preeminent award for art created with technology—has announced the winners of its 13th annual competition at a ceremony held at Kachette, London. Since 2012, The Lumen Prize has awarded over 140 artists leading the way in technology-based arts, including Refik Anadol, Sougwen Chung, Mario Klingemann, Malitzin Cortés (CNDSD), Iván Abreu, Operator, and Casey Reas. This year’s winners represent the pinnacle of technology-driven creativity, selected from a pool of 65 finalists and nearly 2,000 entries from 62 countries.

“The 2024 Lumen Prize winners exemplify the innovative spirit and technical mastery that define the intersection of art and technology,” said Gillian Varney, Director of The Lumen Prize. “Their work pushes the boundaries of what’s possible, offering new perspectives on our rapidly evolving digital world.”

The largest International Selectors Committee (ISC) in Lumen Prize history—featuring over 65 members from world-renowned institutions, including Sotheby’s, Royal College of Art, Google, Tezos, and Gucci—selected this year’s finalists. The winners were then chosen by a distinguished Jury Panel, a body of 5 individuals from prestigious institutions, including the Whitney Museum, V&A Museum, M+ Hong Kong, and HeK.
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