Printed on 100% cotton watercolour textured paper, Breaking Bad art prints would be at home in any gallery. But then he encountered a “bigger pond” in his high school years, when he was briefly enrolled at Interlochen, an arts academy in Michigan. So yeah, I think the short answer is when I saw corkboard after corkboard filled with these things all over the office, I started to realize this was a thing. Hal Haney perfectly captures Walter White's epic transformation into Heisenberg in this monochromatic ink-drawn illustration. And then after that, it's Jesse Pinkman [Aaron Paul], and then after that, it may be Gustavo Fring [Giancarlo Esposito].

I hope fans will see the show in a slightly different light, through the eyes of people like themselves, all around the world — people who happen to be artists, but people who also are fans of the show. Pure: Breaking Bad Art,” a new book featuring fan illustrations in tribute to the Emmy Award-winning TV series, published by Insight Editions and with an introduction by the show’s creator, Vince Gilligan.I am not someone who ever looks up myself or my work on the Internet,” Gilligan says from his Los Angeles production office. Maria Loginova's pencil sketch of the beloved character is bittersweet when one thinks back to the tragic season 2 finale when Walt watches her overdose. Jen Carroll and Melissa Ng — and Claudia Azurmendi and Joanna Zhang [who wrote the text in the book] — know more about the artists and their stories. There will be more than one piece of art in this list featuring the iconic Fleetwood Bounder RV that served as a mobile laboratory for Walter White and Jesse Pinkman in season 1.

New Jersey-born musician and artist Karlee Bloom captures the moment perfectly with acrylic paint on canvas. Just the originality of repurposing textiles scraps, or creating Pez dispensers in the shapes of all these major characters — I love that kind of thoughtfulness. I love how often some of our non-submersible — to use the old Kubrick phrase — visual highlights get repeated over and over again in this art literally from all over the world from every continent.Alessandro Catena's hyper-realistic pencil portrait of Aaron Paul's Jesse Pinkman is a throwback to season 3 when Walter and the aforementioned dealer commenced cooking up a storm at Gus Fring's behest. It's wondrous to behold the character's journey with each binge viewing of the series in its entirety. It is to television what Citizen Kane is to cinema, what King Lear is to the theater, what War and Peace is to Literature; and what Beethoven's 5th is to music. Along his journey, he developed an alter-ego, securing his place and safety in the criminal underbelly of New Mexico.