Category: Illustration
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Gennady Spirin
Russian born illustrator Gennady Spirin studied at the Moscow Art School and the Academy of Arts, as well as the Moscow Stroganov Institute, and currently resides in the U.S. Spirin is the author and illustrator of a number of children’s books for which his illustrations have garnered awards in Europe and the U.S. Spirin blends…
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Peter de Sève (update)
Peter de Sève, a terrific illustrator, New Yorker cover artist and character designer for animated feature films, who I wrote about back in 2006, has a new children’s book (Hooray!), a new blog (double Hooray!) and is the subject of a new monograph (triple Hooray!). The children’s book is The Duchess of Whimsey, written by…
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Don Ivan Punchatz (1936-2009)
Don Ivan Punchatz was one of the outstanding talents in late 20th Century illustration. It’s unlikely that you have not seen his illustrations somewhere, whether on book covers or in magazines like Time, Newsweek, Playboy, Esquire, Rolling Stone, National Geographic or National Lampoon. Personally, I remember being struck by his cover illustrations for the Avon…
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Jon Foster (update 2)
Jon Foster, who I wrote about previously here and here, has a new web site. It is simultaneously wonderful and frustrating. It’s wonderful, of course, because it features even more of Foster’s elegant, painterly, and superbly accomplished illustrations, old and new; and now includes a terrific section of sketches. It’s frustrating because it simply doesn’t…
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Chris Ware’s Unmasked
Unmasked is a Halloween themed cover and four page comic story (two double page spreads) for the November 2nd issue of The New Yorker, by Chris Ware. In a fashion Chris Ware fans have come to expect, the hilarious but subtle cover leads seamlessly into the story, a poignant look at generational and family relations,…
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Al Williamson
Al Williamson is one of the unsung greats of comics art. Well, perhaps “undersung” is a better word (if it is a word), in that those aware of his contributions are usually great admirers, but his work is not as widely known among contemporary comics readers as it should be (not by a long shot).…