The Ephemerist
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Archive for the 'Illustration' Category
New at Griffioen
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Griffioen Grafiek, the Dutch purveyor of prime prints, announces new material on its site by Dutch illustrator Joost Swarte (above), Belgian cartoonist Judith Vanistendael and her French colleague Catel (below). More info @ Griffoen (in Dutch).
A True Comic Opera
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
On his blog, Canadian illustrator and cartoonist Michael Cho has published a few of the illustrations he made for the opera Les Aventures de Mme Merveille. This opera, written by Cecil Castellucci and currently getting geared up for production by the Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal (premiere on May 6), represents quite a unique event, as it combines operatic music with comic book imagery :
Singing, illustrations, video projections and staging come together to recount four highly imaginative stories: The fight of a super heroine against the evil Mr. Dégoût, a fifties love story, the detective enquiry of François and his dog Pax and an interstellar combat.
Other cartoonists working on this production are fellow Canadians Pascal Girard, Scott Hepburn (who’s also published some previews from it on his blog) and Cameron Stewart.
I do hope the result will be broadcast in some way…
Neither super nor comical
Monday, March 8th, 2010
Exactly why the Martin Agency opted for the comic book cover format for these ads for Virginia homelessness action group Homeward, is unclear to me. I do like the result, however, especially thanks to Matt Wieringo’s quite effective and atmospheric art.
(via Ads Of The World)
Tom Gauld for Diet Coke
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
British cartoonist Tom Gauld (Hunter & Painter, The Giant Robot) has designed three cans for Diet Coke. The cans are introduced to raise awareness for The Heart Truth, the women’s heart health program. Together with Mans+Blacklist, and Max Erdenberger, Gauld also produced a series of (very) short animations, which are included after the click.
Sala covers beware
Saturday, March 6th, 2010
I’m not one for using contemporary slang, but OMG ! Robert Goodin just got Richard Sala to join the Covered project with a reworking of Beware #7 (Trojan Magazines, 1954). It’s a great cover, that sticks very closely to the original while at the same time is vintage Sala.
Female illustrators
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Vintage illustration powerhouse Leif Peng has got a new blog ! Female Illustrators of the 20th Century focuses on the women who created classic illustration work in the middle of the last century, but sadly never got appropriate credit for it. Sort of like the subtext for Mad Men, but for illustrators, as it where.
It’s quite interesting to witness Peng, who must be one of the most knowledgeable people around when it comes to vintage 20-th century illustration, painstakingly scrapes together information on quite often less than extensively studied female artists, and all too often has to resort to the phrase “At this time I have no information on”. I guess all help is welcome.
(illustration : Record cover by Margaret Erath for All About The Seasons, as featured on Female Illustrators of the 20th Century)
Richard Scary
Friday, February 26th, 2010
Martin Klasch just started a new Flickr set, in which he combines classic Richard Scarry drawings with rather less child-friendly elementes. Hence Richard Scary. Awesome !
Darwyn Cooke Does Monsters
Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Atom style genius Darwyn Cooke provided the box art for the Criterion Collection box set, Monsters And Madmen, featuring the classic films The Atomic Submarine, Corridors of Blood, First Man into Space, and The Haunted Strangler. Cooke also did the cover art for each of the separate films, which is also available as a print set. Scrumptious !
While you’re on the Criterion website, also check out cover art by Jaime Hernandez, Seth, Mike Allred and Bill Sienkiewicz.
Mr. Super-men
Friday, February 12th, 2010
I love the Mr. Men ! And I love superheroes ! Than how can I not love the Super Mr. Men that Steven Anderson puts on his Flickr page ?
(Thanks, Kevin)
