Classics Illustrated

January 16th, 2012

In their first ever comics feature, At Length magazine presents five literary classics, as interpreted by five contemporary cartoonists.  Kevin Cannon hops on the idea of fitting everything in the screen of a smartphone.  Pascal Girard struggles with the whole assignment, as does Melissa Mendes (but she does end up doing a pretty good job).  Andrea Tsurumi digs up an obscure (to me at least) novel from  the 1830′s, and Noah Van Sciver takes a stab at an equally obscure (idem) book from a couple of years ago.  And lo and behold, almost all of them got me really wanting to read the books they presented.  job done !

Modern living with Rube Goldberg

January 15th, 2012

Joseph Herscher has quite an inventive way to turn the page of the newspaper he’s reading, all by taking a sip of his coffee.  Goldberg is alive !

More info at the New York Times website.

Michigan Tech, 2006

January 14th, 2012

Calvin has an education.

(via Reddit)

Peanuts Road Safety

January 9th, 2012

Found this on Reddit.  I’ve seen devices like these before, but this is the first time that features Peanuts characters in a Beatles stylee.  Nice.

Super still does it

January 5th, 2012

Two hands pulling a suit and tie apart, revealing a diamond-shaped emblem – it never ceases to work.  The latest culprit is the Washington Post Express Night Out.

(Thanks, Mike)

Theme Time Explained

January 2nd, 2012


Who knew that the poster Jaime Hernandez created for Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour actually illustrated the show’s introduction ? This movie shows it all.

Tomine In The city

December 8th, 2011

Adrian Tomine provided the cover for the fourth issue of the literary magazine, In The City, which is only available in Beams stores in Japan.

(via Adrian Tomine News)

Books? We have books!

December 2nd, 2011

This is the cover of this week’s New Yorker Magazine by Dan Clowes (courtesy of D&Q).  This is also exactly how I feel when I enter your average book store.

Keep the answers coming

December 1st, 2011

Kids are curious.  Mother’s Pride helps you give answers when you run out.  A beautiful campaign, perfectly executed for different media, from Out Of The Box.  Art by Sameer Kulavoor.

 

Fiffe and Allred draw them all in

November 29th, 2011

I love search pictures that have too much crammed in to really see at first glance, and this collaboration between Michel Fiffe and Michael Allred is one of the best of that kind that I’ve seen in a long time.  It’s supposed to be part of the Madman Monster that’s slated for the end of the year, and I hope that it’ll be blown up full-size, so as to do justice to the sheer fullness of it.  Check out Michel’s website for background info and sketches.

(artwork © Allred, Fiffe)

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