Month: August 2007
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Brigid Marlin
Visionary artist Brigid Marlin was born in Washington, D.C., studied in Dublin, Paris and New York, and now lives and works in London, England. She eventually travelled to Vienna, specifically to learn the Mische Technique, a painstaking Renaissance painting method in which an ink drawing and detailed egg tempera painting form a basis on which…
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Bogota Painter William K. Moore
William K. Moore appears to live with a foot, and brush, in two worlds. Originally from Los Angeles, he has spent many years living in Bogota, Columbia and chronicling both cities in photographs and paintings. His primary blog, Bogota Painter William K. Moore, is set up as a “painting a day” blog. In it he…
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Shaun Tan (update)
When I first wrote about Australian illustrator and writer Shaun Tan back in March, it looked as though his site was on a server with limited bandwidth, which visits from lines and colors readers quickly overloaded. This unfortunately rendered his site inaccessible for several days, if not weeks, so many of you didn’t get to…
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Mike Wieringo dies at 44
I was shocked and saddened to learn earlier this week that comic book artist Mike Wieringo had died at the age of 44, apparently from a sudden heart attack. Wieringo was a bright spot in the landscape of contemporary American comics. I wrote about his work back in 2005 and again in 2006. Though he…
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D.B. Johnson
Within the hyper-kenitic, urgently frantic and tightly wound mechanism of modern culture, a culture that that does its best to devalue anything that is not shiny, new, expensive and fast, it’s easy to overlook or forget the quiet power of one of America’s great writer/philsophers, Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau’s essay on Civil Disobedience, and his…