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Month: May 2006

  • On the Couch: Cartoons from The New Yorker

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    Yesterday, May 6, 2006, marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sigmund Freud. For at least 80 of those years, since 1927, cartoonists at The New Yorker have been making fun of psychoanalysis with the familiar image of the analyst’s couch, therapist and diploma that has become more of a cartoon cliché anything except…

  • Illustration Friday

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    OK artists, illustrators cartoonists and painters, here’s where you stand: you have 6 more days to do “fat”. “Huh?” you say, staring at me in wide-eyed perplexity, “Say what?”. “Fat”, I say, “6 more days to do ‘fat’, or at least your interpretation of fat”. You stare at me again like I had spoken in…

  • Free Comic Book Day!

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    Update: This year’s Free Comic Book Day! is past, but you may still find this post worth reading, both for my suggestions for why comic books may be more interesting that you suspect, and my introduction to comic book specialty shops. Here are some photos from the event at Captain Blue Hen in Delaware from…

  • Roger Dean

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    Technology giveth and technology taketh away. A few years before our wonderful digital art tools came into use, illustration lost one of its more prominent vehicles as LP records were replaced by digital audio CDs, and the golden age of album cover art drew to a close. Yes, there is still nice work being done…

  • Edmund Tarbell

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    Regular readers of this blog will know that I have a particular fondness for painters who combine the light and color, painterly approach and immediacy of the Impressionists with the solid foundation and draughtsmanship of realism. Examples would include John Singer Sargent, Gustav Calliebotte, Joaquin Sorolla and Anders Zorn. To that partial list, I would…

  • Teshkeel Comics &
    Rubicon multimedia

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    If you are anything like me, you stared in slack-jawed disbelief as you witnessed the shameful debacle of the now infamous Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. It was shameful on both sides of the “conflict”. On the side of the cartoonists involved and the Danish paper that hired them to draw the cartoons, it…