Cartoonish imagery from across the ages has nourished the cute bacchanal that graces H&LA’s new album. The flattened, pearly-toothed cast of The Simpsons, The Flintstones’ Stone Age makeover of 1960s consumer culture, and Keith Haring’s graffiti-inspired patterned paintings leap to mind. Photograph: PR
The poster for Joanna Hogg’s portrait of a wincingly bourgeois artist couple signals perfectly polite good taste, from the sepia tint to the classic mid-century typeface, Helvetica, in lower case. But then there’s the attack of the 50ft woman – a burp in the face of all this quiet elegance. Photograph: PR
Brian Eno and Underworld’s Karl Hyde are channelling a long tradition of sci-fi sublime with their collaboration’s artwork. The strange planet in a toxically trippy sky beyond the looming steel structure recalls illustrator Chris Foss’s 1970s book jackets. Photograph: PR
The artwork for Vancouver punk trio White Lung’s single could very nearly be a collage by British artist John Stezaker, with its psychologically suggestive collision of fashion, nature and product. Photograph: PR
One of the treasures in the British Library’s Comics Unmasked show, Talbot’s sci-fi spawned steampunk, with spacesuits like Roman armour. Photograph: Bryan Talbot/British Library/PR
