Here’s a book that just came to my attention. Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo comics strip is in the public domain, and French artist Frank Pé applies his reinterpretation in Little Nemo: After Winsor McCay. There is no denying that Little Nemo: After Winsor McCay is an example of beautifully designed and gorgeously structured comics storytelling; […]
Illustrator, graphic designer, and cartoonist Seymour Chwast was born August 18, 1931. About Seymour: He is a founding partner of the celebrated Push Pin Studios, whose revolutionary work altered the course of contemporary graphic communication in the 1960s, and continues to affect the field of design worldwide. In 1985, the studio’s name was changed to […]
This month, [GoComics is] celebrating a quarter-century of The Duplex, the syndicated strip by brothers Glenn and Gary McCoy that features Eno and Fang—a perpetual dim-witted bachelor and his loveable canine sidekick—and their long-suffering neighbors, Gina and Mitzi. The Duplex’s journey began with Glenn in 1996. “It sprouted from a scribbled character in one of […]
Let’s save a little bandwidth here with a roundup of 12 variations on the same cartoon. I’m breaking from format by not acknowledging and linking to each cartoonist, but I’m also breaking from format by not commenting beyond what the collection itself implies. Which should balance out. I will comment on Paul Fell‘s cartoon, […]