Morten Morland, who has been drawing covers for The Spectator magazine for the last 15 years, announced on Twitter that he was leaving the weekly magazine. On X/Twitter he wrote: It’s been a fabulous gig, working with great people. It’s been increasingly hard to fit the job in around my commitments for The Times, so […]
Children’s book illustrator Will Terry reviews Apple’s iPad Pro as a professional illustration device.
Ward Sutton asks Dan Perkins (Tom Tomorrow) about the illustration work he does on occasion. WARD SUTTON: Do you actively look for illustration work? TOM TOMORROW: I honestly don’t. Occasionally an interesting project falls in my lap, like a book cover or the album art and packaging I designed for Pearl Jam. But in general, […]
This week’s sponsor is Chris Eliopoulos. I’ve been a fan of Chris’s work for, well… the first time I saw his stuff. His book Cow Boy is gorgeous. His latest project is illustrating a six book series on non-fiction heroes who were noted for demonstrating the resolve and powerful potential of individuals. The books were […]
Award winning illustrator Mo Willems is on sabbatical for a year. While he’s in Paris, he’ll be posting doodles and sketches on GoComics.com
A great video story from the Economist about British illustrator and satirist Ralph Steadman. “I go straight in with ink and that’s in, you know. That’s it. I don’t believe in penciling in first in anything. But people say, ‘don’t you make a mistake?’. Oops” I say, ‘there’s no such thing as a mistake. A […]
Today’s Google Doodle is a tribute to Maurice Sendak. One of the better ones if you ask me.
Author and illustrator Mark Pett has released his second picture book today entitled The Boy and the Airplane. It’s a wordless story about a boy who receives a toy airplane as a gift. He plays with it. He loves it. He throws it. In throwing it, he finds it stuck on a nearby roof. The […]
Ed Steckely is a professional illustrator in New York City who contributes to MAD Magazine. He talked about how the majority of his income is now in advertising illustration and what that all entails. Notes: 80% of income now is advertising illustration Was a caricature artist at theme parks Stressed the importance of learning to […]
Robot6 reports that Neil Gaiman has signed a 5 book deal with HarperCollins Children’s Books. One of the five, Fortunately, the Milk, will be illustrated by Eisner winning illustrator Skottie Young. Dave McKean was at one point set to illustrate Fortunately, the Milk, which Gaiman referred to last fall as “a very silly children’s book” […]
The Comics Journal ran a sneak peak of an interview between Gary Groth and “Where the Wild Things Are” author Maurice Sendak, where it’s revealed that Maurice thought about assassinating President George Bush and Vice President Dick Chenney with a suicide bomb and said the act would have been a “very brave and wonderful thing.” […]
Illustrator, cartoonist Edward Sorel was profiled by NY1 about his work drawing covers for prestigious magazines like The New Yorker, The Nation, Esquire, Time. To Sorel, tracing is cheating. “If you don’t trace, it’s art. If you trace, it’s illustration,” says Sorel. “For me, working direct is fine art, and tracing is commercial art. That’s […]
The Gothamist reports that Abstract Sunday cartoonist Christoph Niemann will attempt to live-draw his first marathon. From the Gothamist: “It’s either the smartest or the most idiotic idea ever,” laughs Niemann. He wanted to tell a personal story-“but I realized I’m running out of stories, because my life isn’t that interesting.” So he signed up […]
A good read in the Washington Post about an illustrator legend: Sendak feels old, but happy, relieved to have escaped youth and all its worries. After the death of his longtime partner, Eugene Glynn, and after triple bypass surgery, he continues to compose daily and is busy with a project about noses, the bigger the […]
Posted on the Washington Post: It’s moving pretty fast. Did anyone catch what he was coloring with? H/T: Mike Rhode