Month: September 2008
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One1more2time3’s Weblog: Animation Treasures
One1more2time3’s Weblog is a blog written by animated film industry production designer Hans Bacher. Formerly based in Europe, the U.S. and Tokyo, Bacher is now in Manila, Philippines and writes about a number of animation and production art topics. According to Michael Hirsh’s Articles & Texticles, Bacher had been blogging previously on a different platform,…
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Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
I will wander off topic for a little personal background (“local color”, so to speak) and then come back. The town of Arles is in Provence, a region of France that borders the Mediterreanean Sea and Northern Italy, where the Romans established their first province (provincia) outside their borders (hence the name). Arles was one…
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Robert Crumb Exhibit in Philadelphia
Just a quick note that there is a new extensive exhibit of works from demented genius cartoonist and underground comix pioneer Robert Crumb at the Institute for Contemporary Art here in Philadelphia. I’ll write a post about the show, and Robert Crumb, in more detail after I’ve had a chance to see the exhibit, but…
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Thomas Paquette (update)
It’s always a treat for me to get to meet and talk to some of the contemporary artists I write about. This past Friday, I had the opportunity to attend an opening of a new show at the Gross McCleaf Gallery here in Philadelphia of works by Western Pennsylvania artist Thomas Paquette. I wrote about…
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Harry Grant Dart
Harry Grant Dart was an American illustrator and comics artist active in the late 1800’s and early 1900s. He worked for the Boston Herald and then the New York World, where he eventually held the position of Art Editor. He was one of the newspaper sketch artists who sketched important events for newspapers prior to…
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Alex Niño
There are a number of strong communities of comics art (those of you in the expensive seats read: “graphic storytelling”) in various parts of the world, each with its own stylistic leanings. Some, like Japan, France and Belgium are more familiar to us here in the U.S. than others, like Italy, the UK, South America,…