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  • Dinotopia, First Flight: 20th Anniversary Edition

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    I received a review copy from Dover Books of James Gurney’s Dinotopia, First Flight: 20th Anniversary Edition, the newest in the series of 20th anniversary editions of Gurney’s contemporary classics. Ostensibly aimed at kids and adolescents, but delightful for adults as coffee-table art books, the series has been getting beautiful “20th Anniversary” treatment at the…

  • Journey, Aaron Becker

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    When I was young, I had a wonderful book called Harold and the Purple Crayon, by Crockett Johnson (see my article here), about a boy with a magical crayon that becomes a pathway to adventures by bringing what is drawn with it to life. It was one of my favorite books as a child. It…

  • Warren Chang: Narrative Paintings

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    Warren Chang is a contemporary American realist painter based in California. After a solid career as an illustrator, Chang transitioned into gallery art 12 years ago, and has achieved wide recognition. Chang’s primary subjects are figures in interiors and figures in landscapes. In the former, which I personally find particularly wonderful, he has an uncanny…

  • Peter Ferguson (update)

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    Peter Ferguson is a Canadian illustrator and gallery artist whose illustration clients include the Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Dow Jones Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Business Week, Los Angeles Times, TBWA Chiat Day, ITP Nelson, Prentice Hall and Marvel Comics. Originally from Montreal, Ferguson studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design. In his illustration…

  • Creative Illustration by Andrew Loomis

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    I’ve written before about my admiration for the classic instructional books by the early to mid 20th century American illustrator Andrew Loomis. In particular I’ve enthusiastically reviewed two of the superb new editions from Titan Books of his too long out of print classics, Figure Drawing for All it’s Worth and Drawing the Head and…

  • Trail of Steel – 1441 A.D., Marcos Mateu-Mestre

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    The link between movies and comics is a strong one. Even without the obvious bridge of their wonderful merging in animation, they share numerous qualities. Both are visual storytelling mediums, and share a common concern with establishing shots, close-ups, framing a scene, conveying the spatial relationship of characters one to the other and other elements…