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