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illustrationMonday Jun 29, 2009
Ruben Toledo Covers the Classics
Penguin has previously recruited the likes of Chris Ware, Seth, and Roz Chast to illustrate Deluxe Classics covers. One of our all-time favorites, despite (or perhaps because of) our vegetarian tendencies: Charles Burns's striking carcass cover for a 2006 edition of The Jungle, muckracker Upton Sinclair's slaughterhouse exposé. Friday Mar 20, 2009
'Pearls Before Swine' Comic Creator In Movie Deal Talks
Pastis, who we know from his blog has won at least one posture competition, also spoke with Galleycat about the work of assembling his eleventh comics collection, The Saturday Evening Pearls, out this month from Andrews McMeel. "It's a lot of work, because in addition to doing the covers, I write comments below many of the individual strips," he explained. "The comments involve what I may have liked/not liked about the strip, feedback I got from readers, mistakes, etc. The comments take a fair amount of time, but they seem to be readers' favorite part of the book." As for what's next in the world of comics in these days of dying newspapers, Pastis believes that "the future will involve getting animated in some capacity and distributed on the Internet." The Very Hungry Caterpillar Turns 40
What accounts for the enduring appeal of the red-faced caterpillar made from Carle's distinctive collages of hand-painted tissue paper? "Aside from the story, aside from the graphics, the touchable holes, and the learning that's camoflaged in there, I think it's a book of hope: you can grow up, fly into the world with your talents," he says. "I'm gratified that it has had such an impact." For further proof of the book's impact, pay a visit to the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts or check out the Google homepage, which today welcomes spring with a Carle-designed Google Doodle. Monday Mar 09, 2009
Larry Gagosian the Magnificent
The New York Times Sunday Business Section knocked one out of the park again yesterday with an above-the-fold graphic that had them chuckling in the waning hours of the Armory Show. Following in the footsteps of Lacie Argyle/Jennifer Daniel's swell Si Newhouse photo-montage portrait, illustrator Charlie Powell depicts art dealer Larry Gagosian as a magician pulling one of Cy Twombly's glorious 2007 peony paintings and a flutter of cash out of his hat. The graphic accompanied David Segal's profile of the press-shy Gagosian, who Segal described as "dogged, unreadable, and enamored with risk." Gagosian did not return Segal's callls for an interview, but Powell delivers. His Larry the Magnificent sports an enigmatic expression—we detect a certain Koonsian exuberance—while behind him floats a row of illustrated masterpieces familiar to any regular visitor to the Gagosian empire: Warhol's "Turquoise Marilyn" (purchased by hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen from collector Stefan Edlis in a 2007 private deal brokered by Gagosian), a 1963 spray enamel work by David Smith, and a painting from Twombly's 2005 Bacchus series, one of which is owned by Aby Rosen and until recently hung in the lobby of the Gramercy Park Hotel. Thursday Feb 26, 2009
Can Illustration Save the World?
You know them, you love them, or at least you've seen their work everywhere from The New York Times Book Review (one of our favorite venues for intriguing images: how great was last week's 1961 Sam Falk cover photo?) to the design-savvy, impeccably groomed world of Bumble & Bumble. Come Tuesday, moderator Mark Heflin, director of American Illustration and American Photography, will pepper the panelists with questions about how they "tackle a broad range of topics and their perspectives (illustratively speaking) on politics, work, life, and love." Get there early for a pre-show screening of the American Illustration 25th Anniversary Timeline movie, in which 25 illustrators were each asked to illustrate one year in AI's 25-year publishing history. Another reason to be prompt? Three words: free signed posters. Wednesday Feb 11, 2009
Dr. Sketchy Teams with Ron English for Launch of ArtStar Series
Wednesday Dec 31, 2008
Stefan Bucher Offers Up a New Monster for a New YearAlthough now retired from his Daily Monster routine, our friend Stefan Bucher has taken pen to ink in front of a camera once more to record this special New Year's Message: Wednesday Dec 17, 2008
Bob Staake Channels Mondrian for New Yorker's 'Minimalist Christmas' Cover
Tuesday Dec 09, 2008
Frank Gehry's Superlight Chair Goes Disco
Sure, Frank Gehry's designs look great, and some of them even have a good beat, but can you dance to them? Now you can, thanks to Garrett Pruter, an illustration student at Parsons the New School for Design who has reimagined Gehry's Superlight chair, the 6.5-pound aluminum wonder designed for Emeco, as a disco ball. Pruter's "Disco Chair" (pictured above, at right) is just one of the tweaked Superlights that resulted from a semester-long collaboration among Parsons, Emeco, and Design Within Reach. See them all tomorrow evening, when DWR hosts a reception for the project at its Chelsea studio in New York City. From 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Parsons Illustration chair (get it? chair!) Steven Guarnaccia, Emeco's Dan Fogelson, and the student-creators will be on hand to discuss the designs, which also include a Superlight sprouting long locks of hair and Paul Kim's transformation of Gehry's Superlight into a comic book tale (click "continued..." to see it). The designs will be on view through Friday at DWR in Chelsea. Sunday Nov 09, 2008
New York Observer Caps Election Coverage with Sculptures, Star Trek Parody Poster
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