“The other day I got an e-mail from Carson Van Osten, a famous Disney artist who did many Disney Comic Books and created the famous “Comic Strip Artist’s Kit”. It was created to help beginning comic artists deal with perspective problems and other drawing difficulties. I scanned my old xeroxes a while ago. It’s probably …
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Design Nouveau
Maurice Pillard-Verneuil (1869-1942) began architectural studies in Paris but a strong interest in art led him to apprentice at L’École Guérin under Eugène Grasset, the master of the emerging Art Nouveau style of the late 19th century. Under the twin influences of Grasset and Japanese art, Verneuil developed into the perfect embodiment of La Belle …
American Supernatural Tales
Once again Penguin proves that simple is very often best. American Supernatural Tales
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Charles Schultz on Peanuts
All the loves in the strip are unrequited; all the baseball games are lost; all the test scores are D-minuses; the Great Pumpkin never comes; and the football is always pulled away. Charles Schultz on Peanuts
Sampling Kircher
“Plato said, ‘Nothing is more divine than to know everything,’ sagely and elegantly, for just as Knowledge illuminates the mind, refines the intellect and pursues universal truths, so out of the love of beautiful things it quickly conceives and then gives birth to a daughter, Wisdom, the explorer of the loftiest matters, who, passing far …
As if this were news….
What Kind of Reader Are You? Your Result: Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm You’re probably in the final stages of a Ph.D. or otherwise finding a way to make your living out of reading. You are one of the literati. Other people’s grammatical mistakes make you insane.Dedicated Reader Literate Good Citizen Book Snob Fad Reader Non-Reader What Kind …
things to look at: Nobrium
He’s a genius, a showman, a shrewd businessman, and a whiner. I have no intention of working with him again. Rob Liefeld shoots on Alan Moore (Navel Gazing)
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