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Nazis, Alcoholics and Potty-mouthed Rats: It's the Best Comics of 2008!

The timeless power of black ink on white paper to graphically present great stories, characters and humor has been compiled in a great new anthology "The Best Comics of 2008" edited by Lynda Barry. Recent work from Chris Ware, Jason... MORE

the Cinematic Art of Batiste Madalena

I've always been a fan of these early, hand painted treasures of poster art, but to see the the vibrant colors, elegant type design (all drawn by hand!) and bold graphics at the Museum of Modern Art's new exhibition of... MORE

Process: Christopher Silas Neal

While searching for illustrators to recommend for a magazine redesign project we're working on at my studio, I recently visited Christopher Silas Neal's web site (www.redsilas.com). Chris' work is very painterly and evocative with a mixture of image, symbols, and... MORE

Nothing But a Ballpoint Pen

For the September issue of Los Angeles, art director Joe Kimberling collaborated with illustrator and type designer Marian Bantjes to create the cover. The solution, done solely with a blue ballpoint pen, is a notebook covered with doodles inspired by... MORE

Power Pens: The Art of Politics

There is nothing like a history-making presidential campaign to bring out the insight, outrage and humor in publishing's top illustrators and visual journalists. Curated by Edel Rodriguez, The Society of Illustrators is presenting the original work of twenty five top... MORE

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Persepolis

I finally Netflix-ed Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's moving autobiographical graphic novel turned animated film. Some of the night scenes outside with the tanks and the marches as well as the scene of Persepolis' family going down the stairs of their building... MORE

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PENCIL PAPER:
My Talk with Brian Cronin

"Brian Cronin: 25 Years and Change"Retrospective 1983--2008 Casa da Cerca, Center for Contemporary ArtLisbon, Portugal(On view through August 30, 2008)"Going Over Home: Photographs by Fred Woodward"401 Projects401 West Street (at Charles Street), NYC(On view through August 24, 2008)* * *... MORE

Blitt Storm

When the controversy erupted over The New Yorker's now-infamous cover "The Politics of Fear" last week (showing a fear-monger's vision of a post-inaugural Barack and Michelle Obama in the Oval Office), perhaps your first thoughts were not of the effect... MORE