Lines and Colors art blog

Month: April 2007

  • Bill Watterson: 15 Questions

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    Bill Watterson is one of my all time favorite comic strip artists, which is saying something, because my tastes run toward the greats from the early part of the 20th Century like Herriman, McCay, Raymond, Foster, Kelley and such, but Watterson is one of the few contemporary cartoonists I would put in their company. I’ll…

  • Chris Ware: On Cartooning

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    A recent post on kottke.org reminded me of this interview with Chris Ware (who I profiled in February ’06) on the PBS site, as part of their features accompanying Tintin and I, their program last july on Hergé (who I profiled at the time and also mentioned in reference to the major exhibition at the…

  • Omar Rayyan and Sheila Rayyan

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    Studio Rayyan is home to husband and wife illustrators Omar Rayyan and Sheila Rayyan. The tongue in cheek “Who are we” section on their site provides little information of real use, except that Omar is of Middle-Eastern descent (could we have guessed?) and is allergic to yaks (always good to know). I was also able…

  • Coles Phillips

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    Just as there was a “Gibson Girl” in the 1890’s, in which the illustrations of Charles Dana Gibson came to be the personification of the ideal of a modern woman, so, in the early part of the 20th Century there was a “Phillips Girl”, a less well known, but also influential, ideal, portraying an on-the-go…

  • Ghostbot (update)

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    I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to get weary of the overuse of 3-D CGI in TV commercials. Yes, some of it is clever and very well done, but there’s just so much of it that the 2-D, spy-themed mini-cartoons for eSurance, produced by WildBrain (who I profiled here) and animated by the…

  • Christopher Stott

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    Christopher Stott is a Canadian painter living and working in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. For the past three years, Stott has been self-represented. In the “About the Artist” section of his site he makes a point about the dedication and work this entails. Stott’s paintings could be considered either still lifes or interiors, usually focusing on objects…