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All Winners Comics #2
All Winners Comics #2

Ethiopian Manuscripts

On the 57th Street side of 57th Street Books, Hyde Park, Chicago:

(Can someone explain the joke?)

Graffiti

Random Doodles

An editorial in a college newspaper recently suggested that college faculty join Facebook as a way to show their desire “to connect with” students. The editors gamely suggest academic benefits: chances to create assignments that focus on what students are “already interested in” and to find “examples” (of what?) that students will recognize.

I’m always interested in showing the relevance of the works I teach, but it’s a professor’s responsibility to enlarge a student’s understanding of…

Talk to the face

Diary won the National Book Award!!!!

Sherman accepting the award in NYC last night:

Sherman and I exchanged quick emails last night. Me: “I’m so happy and proud! You must be out of your mind!!!” Sherman: “And to you too crazy crazy crazy”

Wow!!

Oh My God!

We Bring You Death!

“Before you can draw a human figure with clothing, muscles, shading, etc., it is necessary to understand the basic proportions of the human figure. Proportions on a figure are simply how long the major anatomical parts of the body are, in relation to each other.

Let’s examine the proportions of a healthy male human figure. Proportions change based on body type, age, sex and activity level. Our example healthy male figure will be seven heads tall. As a foundation, let’s start with these lengths…

How To Use Proportions When Drawing People

Dear NYPL Digital,
We very much appreciate the two proto-surrealist images of ornamental foliage figures by Wolfgang Hieronymus von Bömmel from about 1660 (published in 1894) you have in your database.
But as there seems to be no other examples of his intriguing work online (nor much in the way of information) we would be grateful if you would put the other thirteen illustrations from this particular folder on your digitisation to-do list.
Thanks very much.
PK.

Decompression