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Category: Pen & Ink

  • Walt Reed and Illustration House

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    Illustration House is a venerable gallery, repository and auction house in New York that specializes in great illustration. It is the province of Walt Reed, who is probably the foremost expert on illustration that we have. Reed is also the author of numerous definitive books on the subject, including The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000, Visions…

  • Patrick Arrasmith

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    There is something particularly appealing about images created by an artist who is strongly skilled in the medium of scratchboard. This slightly arcane and quite demanding medium is the through-the-looking-glass version of pen and ink; in which black ink is taken away from the coating on a clay-surfaced board, and the image is built from…

  • The Vadeboncoeur Collection of ImageS

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    I’ll let you in on a little secret. Some of you may be under the impression from my posts on the subject that I’m an expert on the field and history of illustration, but that’s not the case. I simply know a little bit about some terrific illustrators that I’ve come across over the years.…

  • Walt Kelly

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    “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Walt Kelley’s revision of an 1813 quote from Commodore Perry (“We have met the enemy, and they are ours”), and his famous reworking of a classic Christmas song as “Deck the Halls with Boston Charlie”, may actually be familiar to a larger number of people than…

  • Chris Ware – The Acme Novelty Date Book Volume Two

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    Chris Ware, who I wrote about here and here, has just released The Acme Novelty Date Book, Volume Two: 1995-2000. For those of you who are only familiar with Ware’s precise, carefully controlled marvels of precision comic art, these two volumes are something else altogether. Basically they’re sketchbooks, not that different in essence from sketchbooks…

  • Ron Cobb

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    I’ve been wanting to write a post on Ron Cobb for some time now. Cobb is a cartoonist, film production designer and concept artist from Los Angeles, currently living and working in Sydney, Australia. When I went to write a post on Cobb last year, I was disappointed to find that there wasn’t much material…