Month: October 2006
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Malcolm McNeill
Malcolm McNeill is an illustrator, concept artist and comics artist based in New York. His work has appeared in publications like The New York Times, National Lampoon and titles for Marvel Comics. McNeill was collaborating with William S. Burroughs, before his death, on an “word/image novel” called Ah Pook is Here (image above, top), based,…
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Chris Appelhans
I chanced on Chris Appelhans from a two-month old link from John Nevarez’s blog, did a little digging and found that he is being widely mentioned at the moment. Good thing because his own site has some yummy art but very little actual biographical or background info. Chris Appelhans is a visual development artist who,…
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Ivan Bilibin
Every once in a while I stumble across something by accident that turns out to be a great find. I was in the Met in New York last weekend and they have a wonderful practice (fortunately in common with many major museums lately) of rotating works into view from their collection of drawings, prints and…
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Laurelines (Laura Frankstone)
All artists go through periods of difficulty, where the act of creation becomes more of a chore than a joy, or ideas dry up, or we reach those plateaus where progress seems to cease, or we are pressed with doubt or even fear about our abilities (or lack thereof). When this happens, the logical thing…
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Chris Gall
Chris Gall is an illustrator and author living in Arizona, and is also an adjunct professor at the University of Arizona. His paintings seem to have a social realist, heroic WPA mural sensibility to them, and occasionally feel a bit like Thomas Hart Benton doing illustrations for Popular Science. What I find most interesting, though,…
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Garry Trudeau
When I first came across Doonesbury I was a bit put off. I just didn’t like the drawing. The figures lacked geometry, the linework seemed weak and I just didn’t get the dark circles under the eyes thing. I was ready to toss it off as another example of the declining state of newspaper comics…