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Category: Illustration

  • Vintage German Illustration

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    Susan Lenox has posted a collection of vintage German posters, illustration and advertising art (mostly late 19th and early 20th Century) to a Flickr set. There are travel posters, ads for beer, bicycles, theatre and pens, and a variety of artists and styles. Many of the images are linked to larger versions, but unfortunately not…

  • Jason Seiler

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    Jason Seiler is a caricaturist, character designer and illustrator whose clients include The New York Times, Time Magazine, The Weekly Standard, Business Week, MAD Magazine and many others. As a caricaturist, Seiler often pushes his exaggerated portraits to extremes, to the point where they have a fun-house mirror feeling. He can then turn around and…

  • Alice in Wonderland Illustrations

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    “…and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?” I used the quote above, from the first paragraph of Lewis Carroll’s classic and newly popular story, as a preface to the “Dead Tree Edition” of my webcomic, ArgonZark! when it was published in 1997. I felt it was a perfect…

  • Robert McCall 1919-2010

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    Robert McCall, the pioneering space artist who helped chronicle the NASA space program through some of its greatest triumphs, as well as open our eyes to the imagined possibilities of mankind’s future in space, died last Friday, February 26, 2010, at the age of 90. Even if you’re not directly familiar with McCall, chances are…

  • Lawson Wood

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    UK painter, illustrator and designer Lawson Wood found a rather unique niche for himself amid the great turn of the 20th Century illustrators by going ape. Though he portrayed many other subjects, and even had other comic illustration series with particular themes, notably police officers and prehistoric scenes, it was his comic illustrations of apes…

  • Errol Le Cain

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    British animator and illustrator Errol Le Cain was a member of Richard William’s animation studio in the 1960’s when they were producing the terrific and influential animated opening credits for films like A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Casino Royale (the original, weird one). He also worked on William’s The…