As Charles Bremner reports, you’re looking at 764,200 euros (1.22 million dollars) here. That’s what this illustration in indian ink and gouache, was worth according to an anonymous French collector at a Paris auction last week. The total auction (653 comics-related items) made a good 3.4 million euros. Ils sont fous, les bédéphiles…
Doubtsourcing was launched by Sandeep Sood, owner of software consultancy company Monsoon, and is the Dilbert of the 21st century. It’s adequately geeky, and its writer obviously knows what he’s talking about. It even has something Dilbert doesn’t : art that’s good to look at. And when it goes daily in march, it will take the world by storm. Of a sort.
“Colorblind kids can see color. They just don’t see the same colors we see. Check you child’s eyesight for early detection.”
Quite a good campaign fro the Taiba Hospital, playing on the defining function of conventional color schemes. The result looks quite eerie, to be honest.
(from Ads of the World)
The Smurfs are celebrating their 50th anniversary with a tour across Europe. So far, they’ve turned up in Angoulème, Ghent and Scheveningen, and in each of these cities, thousands of lifesize white Smurfs turn up. If you find one, you can take him home, paint him and take part in a competition. But at the same time, these little gnomes also create awareness about Unicef, the Smurfs’ and Studio Peyo’s charity of choice (remember the quite disturbing ad they did together last year).
Check out the mirth and surprise at each of these locations, and especially admire the Astérix smurf that Albert Uderzo painted in Angoulème.
And if you’re not in Europe, or just to lazy to go smurf hunting, why not buy your own ? They’re for sale at the Unicef Shop, they’re like three apples high (which is about 7 inches) and they’re only 10 Euro’s (which is about 15 USD, I gather). So, there’s no reason not to. Get one, paint one, fly.
My mom took a subscription to Humo Magazine, and I got her complementary Ever Meulen Lamp.
Thanks, Mom !
Lea Hernandez updates Peanuts for the 21st century. I like the fact that she didn’t make Linus a Linux Geek. After all, Linus is, essentially, a Mac. He was even a Mac before Macs were invented…
OK, bear with me : Elmer is a “window into an alternate Earth where chickens have suddenly acquired the intelligence and consciousness of humans, where they consider themselves a race no different than whites, browns or blacks, and push to recognize rights for themselves as the newest members of the human race.” Talking chickens, indeed. Never mind the Donald Duck conundrum (is this duck a bird-bird or a man-bird ?) - chickens are a race on their own.
And, believe it or not, Elmer by Gerry Alanguilan is actually a pretty good book. Alanguilan takes a quite far-fetched idea and develops it into a quite strong metaphor for racial prejudice and social injustice.
If you want to know more, you can download issue 1, which is out of print, for free as a cbr from his site. Alanguilan is hoping to create enough hoopla about this, to boost sales of his later issues, and later maybe a collected edition.
I also like the fact that he’s chosen the .cbr format to distribute his comic. Shows he’s hep with things.
