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Category: Illustration

  • Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2008!

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    As I mentioned in my Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year! post from last year, master illustrator J.C. Leyendecker is responsible for initiating the tradition of representing the New Year visually as a baby. Here are a few more of his wonderful New Years babies from the cover of The Saturday Evening Post. Their archive is…

  • Asaf Hanuka

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    Israeli born illustrator and comics artist Asaf Hanuka studied illustration at Emile Cohl, an art institution in France. His illustration clients include The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Rolling Stone and Forbes. His comics work includes collaborations with French writer Didier Desninckx on Carton Jaune! and Hors Limits, and Israeli writer Etgar…

  • Tomer Hanuka

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    Illustrator and comics artist Tomer Hanuka was born in Israel, where he attended an art-oriented high school and developed a fascination for American comic books. After his mandatory three years of military service, he moved to New York and studied illustration at the School of Visual Arts. He came out of school and right into…

  • Haddon Sundblom

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    You will find many accounts that insist that Michigan illustrator Haddon Sundblom was responsible for creating the modern image of Santa Claus, providing a friendlier form for the the jolly old elf than had previously been envisioned, at the behest of the Coca-Cola company, who wanted to use him to sell more of their sugary,…

  • Maggie Taylor

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    Maggie Taylor uses found materials, a flatbed scanner and Adobe Photoshop to create her wistful, atmospheric photo-collages. Her images have a feeling of 19th Century academic art and a consistency that puts me in mind of Max Ernst’s graphic collage novel Une Semaine du Bonté. Taylor has applied her image making sensibilities, which frequently feel…

  • Andrew Loomis in Illustration Magazine

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    The new issue of Illustration magazine (#20) just came out, and the highlight is a beautiful and extensive (32 page) article on Andrew Loomis. Loomis was an influential editorial and advertising illustrator who is better known for his instructional books than his classic illustrations. Hopefully this article will go some way toward correcting this. Loomis’…