New Yorker Swarte
Friday, August 24th, 2007
Joost Swarte provided the cover for this week’s issue of The New Yorker. I had to blow up an image from the New Yorker shop, so the quality is not that good. Sorry.
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The Ephemerist
Thriving in the margins since 2002…
Archive for August, 2007
Economist Reader = Superman ?
Friday, August 24th, 2007
Toby Careful (Yahoo Group Recap)
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
The Adventures Of Toby Careful is a very strange but quite entertaining strip by Jack Unruh that appeared in the Washington Post Health section on july 19, 2005. I don’t know whether this was part of a longer series, but it looked promising at the time.
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Symbolia (Yahoo Group Recap)
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Cartoon Symbolia is a very intertaining and enlightening comic by Dash Shaw about all those loose lines that are scattered through comics and strips, having all kinds of meanings. The lighter side of semiotics, as it were. Highly recommendable
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The Comic Factory
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
Here’s another of Pieter De Poortere’s great bird’s eye view illustrations that I blogged about earlier. This one was published on the cover of Focus Knack, to announce a lenghty article about the current state of Flemish cartoon and comics, which quotes Top Shelf’s Brett Warnock with an enthousiastic laudatio to the Flemish comic :
“Your flemish artists at least have a really unique and fantastic vision. Far to many Americans create comics full of talking heads, whereas Flemish, and also a lot of French authors dare to explore wild and boisterous ideas in brave artistic styles. I only whish American authors took them as an example.” (This, btw, is very weird, as I had to translate this from a Dutch translation of an English text - I only wonder how much I changed in it).
The article also contains profiles of six hot Flemish talents (Pieter De Poortere, Conz, Olivier Schrauwen, Judith Vanistendael, Brecht Evens and Simon Spruyt) and announces the great Belgian Cartoon Clash, a contest for new, undiscovered cartoonists who get a chance at winning 52 pages in Focus. More about that, along with an overview of the participants, here (in Dutch)…
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Party Posters by Vander Veken
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
For the fifth year Patrick Janssens, mayor of Antwerp, is holding an open-air party for the people of his city, to keep contact with his constituents and keep him on their minds as well, I guess. This year, though, there’s also a kids-only party, with adults not allowed. I’m wondering how he’ll get through the doors himself at that occasion…
Anyway, I guess what’s most interesting for us, is that flemish illustrator Jan vander Veken has done two magnificent posters for the events. And they’re here for you to enjoy.
(thanks, Frank)
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Sort of Tarzan
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
No Inspiration, No Future
Monday, August 20th, 2007
Spider-Man and Catwoman advertise for Chech bookstore Shakespeare And Sons . A campaign by Publicis, with illustrations credited to Petr Herold, Sattons (but no copyright information on the characters in sight).
Ads of the world provides more info on the books (quoted) :
Spiderman is reading book BEETLES. It is a classic and timeless childrens book written by Jan Karafiat in 1867. It tells stories of a young beatle from his birth to falling love and other adventures and challenges that life brings. It describes wonderfully the psychological growth of a young being and all that one sees and learns about the world.
CatWoman is reading book ALL ABOUT DOGGIE AND PUSSYCAT. It is a chlidrens book by Josef Lada known and loved by generations of children and their parents. All of their stories and adventures relate to their living together and all the things they experience. From keeping the house to making a cake.
(via 2WENTY 4OUR)
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The Dawn of Dilbert (Yahoo Group Recap)
Sunday, August 19th, 2007
A second recap from the Ephemerist Yahoo Group. A while ago, Scott Adams published his very first cartoons, with which he pitched his series, Dilbert, on Dilbert.com. A quite unique look into the past, and it even makes Dogbert, my favorite, more important than ever.
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Marjane Satrapi at Women and Children First (Yahoo Group Recap)
Sunday, August 19th, 2007
This is a repost from the Ephemerist Yahoo Group. I’m a little short on new material, so I decided to focus on some online features that are still available, but may have faded a little.
This is a report on a reading and signing session by Marjane Satrapi, from Bookslut. I like the way Satrapi’s style is being emulated here.
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