The boys at Udon are prepping a bunch of new Capcom art books, which are all gorgeous. Just in time for pre-Comic-con news, they've let slip info today on SF20: The Art of Street Fighter.

SF20: The Art of Street Fighter gathers over 1,500 illustrations by Capcom’s top artists over the past 20 years. Included are character designs, concept art, rough sketches, game covers, promo artwork, crossover pieces and even some never-before seen artwork from Street Fighter’s past and present. Plus Capcom artists Akiman, Kinu Nishimura, CRMK, Edayan, Dai-Chan, Ikeno, Shinkiro and others give commentary on their favorite pieces and discuss what it’s been like to help forge the Street Fighter legacy.

The book arrives Sept. 20.

Having never attended an EVO tournament before, I was constantly surprised by the attendees's indie rock DIY approach to competitive gaming. While the majority of SFIV players are now rocking the excellent Mad Catz Tournament Edition Fight Stick (they better, since it was made specifically for their needs!), there were tons of homebrew joysticks on display. More (crappy Blackberry mobile) pics of just a few of the ones I saw on display in vegas this past weekend follow the button.

PlayStation Home community manager Jared Rea was on hand for EVO, flaunting his freshly-customized Mad Catz stick. Jared is a Chunster player, as you can tell from his awesome LittleBigPlanet-themed stick.

There was always a crowd of people giving Tatsunoko VS Capcom a workout throughout the event, but this guy actually made his own Doronjo joystick for the Wii. We'll expect to see you sideline TvC players on the big screen next year!

Protoman is cool. 'Nuff said.

Kids, make sure you leave the joystick modding to pros. You can't handle this level of packing tape & plastic stool crafting without years of training.

Not actually a joystick (as I'm sure you figured out), but Adam (aka "Keits") was sporting this jaunty Gold Lightan tie on the first day of EVO. His girlfriend also made a bunch of Street Fighter ties, which were promptly purchased and worn all weekend by the entire Capcom EVO staff, making us 30% more dashing than usual.

Also not a tie, this Canadian Mega Man fan showed off his hawt ink. If he was truly hardcore, he would have gone with the Mega Man 9 box art...

Not sure what the crazy doujinsoft PC game was that these dudes were playing, but I was amused to find PC gamers in the midst of EVO's console madness.

Seth is still in Vegas, helping wrap up the EVO weekend. He will undoubtedly fill Unity with all sorts of cool EVO-related stuff over the next few days (at least until Comic-con derails us), but in the meantime, I did want to congratulate Japan's Daigo "The Beast" Umehara. He took first place in the Street Fighter IV competition at EVO, once again besting top-ranked US player Justin Wong -- shades of the Gamestop tournament!. Daigo is known for his unmatchable skills with Ryu, but Justin brought plenty of fury to the match, choosing to challenge with Abel, Rufus and Balrog ("The Boxer," as he's known at EVO in order to cut down on regionalized naming issues) to try to shake up The Beast. Their battles are epic and worth watching. There's already tons of video on YouTube, but you'll want to keep your eyes on the official Evolution 2K website, where they will soon be adding all kinds of video, including a cool clickable bracket feature that will allow you to watch each match of the finals as they happened. Congrats Daigo and Justin

Ever notice how we're always trying to sell you stuff? Well, this chunk of Street Fighter goodness if free* for your finger-tapping pleasure, so: You're welcome! Capcom has teamed up with Gametap and Metaboli to unleash this play-in-yer-browser version of SFII' Champion Edition in celebration of the PC release of Street Fighter IV. See how long it takes you to figure out how to shoryuken your opponent using the arrow and SDF keys.

*Nothing in life is actually free, thanks to lawyers