Category: Cartoons
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Scott Brundage
Scott Brundage applies his delightfully cartoony watercolor illustration style to editorial illustrations for clients like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Southern Living Magazine, The Artist’s Magazine and many others. In addition to the cartoonlike visual approach, his illustrations often have a cartoonlike twist, or humorous variation on a common…
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Edward Sorel
Edward Sorel’s wonderfully loose and gestural cartoon illustrations have been featured on the covers and interiors of magazines like The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Harpers, Forbes, The Nation, Esquire and The New York Times Magazine for a number of years. His pen and ink and watercolor images capture personalities, places and situations with wry humor…
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Editorial Drawings of Winsor McCay
Even among fans of his comic art masterpiece, Little Nemo in Slumberland (a group of whom I count myself an ardent member), few people are aware of the editorial cartoons of Winsor McCay. During his stints as cartoonist for The Cincinnati Enquirer and The New York Herald, and through syndicated work for the Hearst papers,…
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Bill Watterson Interview
Bill Watterson, the artist and writer of Calvin and Hobbes, to my mind the best late 20th Century comic strip after Pogo ceased publication in 1975, is almost as notable for the things he didn’t do as for his actual accomplishments. He didn’t accept the idea of merchandising his popular characters to the hilt, and…
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Black & White ImageS: The Fifth Special Collection
We are jaded by an abundance of color images. Dazzled, distracted and spoiled by color’s overt and often brash appeal, we can easily lose sight of the sublime pleasures to be had in the appreciation of black and white artwork. There is a visual charm and magic to black and white images that is difficult…
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David Levine
David Levine was one of the great caricaturists of the 20th Century. He is best known for his drawings of notable figures published in The New York Review of Books over the course of more than 40 years. The NYRB web site has a gallery of over 2,500 of his drawings that can be browsed…