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Month: January 2006

  • Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli)

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    Hayao Miyazaki is arguably the greatest of all directors of “anime”, Japanese animation. He is noted for such classic animated films as Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Laupta: The Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Porco Rosso, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away and, most recently, Howl’s Moving Castle (Amazon links).…

  • Rembrandt: life, paintings, etchings, drawings and self portraits

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    Rembrandt: life, paintings, etchings, drawings and self portraits is the sister site to the amazing Essential Vermeer site I wrote about back in November. Both are created and maintained by artist Jonathan Janson. Rembrandt! What can you say about someone who is often billed as “the greatest artist in the history of Western art”, or…

  • Dodecaden (Man Arenas)

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    Man Arenas is a production designer and concept artist, primarily for animated films. His production designs, storyboards, location drawings and character designs are sometimes simple, sometimes complex but always beautifully realized, He works in a loose, confident drawing style that is full of life and just plain fun to look at. Many of the images…

  • Paul McCormack

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    Paul McCormack is a portrait artist living in the Hudson Valley area of New York State. He creates portraits in oil, watercolor and graphite. Although his oil and graphite portraits are accomplished and refined, it’s the watercolor paintings that caught my attention. There is something about the way he handles the texture and color of…

  • Zot! Online: “Hearts and Minds”
    (Scott McCloud)

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    You’ll notice that this post is about a specific online comic, not Scott McCloud in general. (That’s a post for another day.) If you’re interested in comics and you’re not familiar with Scott McCloud (presumably because you’ve been living in a yurt somewhere on the Mongolian steppes), start with Understanding Comics and then go to…

  • Peter de Sève

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    Peter de Sève has been a bright presence in American Illustration for a number of years. His wonderful cartoon-style illustrations have appeared in Time, Newsweek, Smithsonian, Atlantic Monthly and, in particular, on many covers for The New Yorker. His drawings reveal the influence of comic book art and early Mad magazine artists as well as…