In the New York Times Magazine of last weekend, an article was published on the future of financial risk management. illustrations were provided by Seth, Adrian Tomine, Christoph Niemann and a host of others. Go to the article, and browse through the various pages to see them all.
(via Mike @ ComicsDC - illustration © Seth)
Christoph Niemann lived in New York for a while, and after moving back to Berlin, he has graciously made public the long and secretly guarded secret cheat sheets that purebred Newyorkers seem to use. The list of ten flash cards ran in the New York Times and is simply beautiful.
(© 2008 New York Times)
The NYTimes.com website is currently running ‘Abstract City’, a nice little story by illustrator and cartoonist Christoph Niemann about his children’s obsession with the New York Subway system.
I know Niemann’s cartoony, almost ligne claire work from the New Yorker, and I wasn’t expecting him to produce an abstract piece like this. Somehow he manages to weave the visual language of his subject, the subway and his trains and timetables, into his narrative and still keep his art very readable. And his subject matter is extremely recognizable - kids seem to have a natural way with systems.
Together with Alison Bechdel’s piece in Entertainment Weekly, this is one of the best strips-where-you-wouldn’t-expect-them of this year.
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The Ephemerist will be at the Angoulème Festival from Wednesday January 28 until Saturday January 31. If you want to meet up, let me know.
