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Category: Pen & Ink

  • 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…

  • Scott McKowen

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    Well, my friends, here is yet another tantalizingly different artist about whom I could find very little information without having to dig. I first encountered Scott McKowen’s work in the form of his wonderful set of covers for the Marvel Comics limited series 1602 (in which Marvel superheroes are envisioned in that time period, and…

  • J.J. Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gèrard)

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    How cool would it be if we could actually see the whole intricate pattern of the influences of one artist on another that make up the brilliant, if ragged, cloth of art history. The best any one individual can hope for is glimmers and flashes of interconnectedness where the pattern reveals a small portion of…

  • James Akers

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    I’m constantly amazed at the way in which we, as artists, allow ourselves to be locked into restrictive little boxes by accepting and participating in an unspoken hierarchy of the artistic value of different genres of visual arts. Those in the fine arts community, even within all of the strata it contains, look down on…