"Cozy Lummox" is the name of a blog owned and operated by one Eric Skillman, who happens to be a rather good graphic designer whose work, if you are a big film buff, you've probably seen before.  He's one of the primary designers for the Criterion Collection, and has been responsible for some of their finest package design (we're big fans of his work on Jules Dassin's Night and the City in particular).  In addition to the gorgeous work routinely featured there, his blog is also highly enjoyable, giving an insider's perspective on the sometimes amusing, sometimes agonizing work that goes into designing for the world's most prestigious home cinema collection.  His accounts of putting together the package for Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz are particularly enjoyable.

Recently, Skillman has been discussing a different collision of comic books and movies than we usually talk about around here:  for a few recent Criterion releases, he's enlisted the services of a number of high-profile comics artists to do the cover art.  Of particular interest:  Jaime Hernandez (of Love and Rockets fame) designed the cover of Pietro Germi's Divorce Italian Style; Mad Man's Mike Allred was brought in to do Germi's Seduced and Abandoned; Sean Phillips of Criminal contributed the cover to Allen Baron's Blast of Silence; and the legendary Bill Sienkiewicz on Byron Haskin's Robinson Crusoe on Mars.  It's a fascinating combination of great artists from one field applying their talents to the work of great artists in another -- and there's still more to come:  Darwyn Cooke (best known for his terrific retro art on DC's Justice League:  New Frontier) will be handing the package art for an upcoming collection of Boris Karloff films entitled Monsters and Madmen.