Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Cartoons

  • A. Wilkenfeld

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    A. wilkenfeld is an illustrator and character designer, originally from Sydney, Australia and now based in New Orleans. Aside from that, I can find little biographical information. To my eye, Wilkenfeld’s lively, fluid drawings show an admiration for the work of great caricaturists like Al Hirschfeld, along with an affection for early 20th century magazine…

  • Tony Auth, 1942-2014

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    For over 40 years, Tony Auth was a glimmer of sanity amid the news of the day, in the form of his cartoons on the opinion pages of the Philadelphia Inquirer. In 2012, Auth — a winner of the Pulitzer and Herblock Prizes — moved to the local PBS affiliate, bringing his cartoons to their

  • B. Kliban cartoons on the web

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    Much to my delight, and considerable surprise, GoComics, the online repository of newspaper comics from both Universal and United Media syndicates, has been placing online the wonderfully off-kilter and reality-warping cartoons of B. Kliban. If you’re not familiar with Kliban, it’s worth noting that The Far Side’s Gary Larson, Bizzarro’s Dan Piraro, the New Yorker’s…

  • Cartoonist interviews on David Wasting Paper

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    Since 2009, David Paccia has been posting short interviews with cartoonists, comics artists and cartoon illustrators of various backgrounds on his blog, David Wasting Paper. The interviews are a standard set of questions, the same given to each artist, the answers to which, of course, are varied. The questions range from interesting and useful, like…

  • Barry Blitt

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    Barry Blitt is an illustrator and cartoonist whose clients include Vanity Fair, Time, Rolling Stone The Atlantic and The New York Times, where he contributes regularly to the op-ed page. He is probably best known, however for his New Yorker covers, which are frequently political (in contrast to the majority of New Yorker covers) and…

  • Eye Candy for today: Ingle watercolor

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    Still Life with Brass Candlestick, John Stuart Ingle — watercolor on paper, 29×42″ (75x107cm). A beautiful bit of watercolor realism by contemporary American artist John Stuart Ingle. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, use the Fullscreen link and zoom or download arrow.