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The latest issue of the US Illustration magazine (#64) features the work of American artist Joe de Mers, best known for his many slick magazine illustrations for the Saturday Evening Post and othersContinue reading Saturday Evening Post artist Joe de Mers profiled in latest Illustration magazine
The very first original cover art featuring the beloved comic character Tintin, Hergé’s The Adventures of Tintin Volume 1: Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, sold for more than $1.12 million by Heritage Auctions on Saturday, 8th June, in a sale of European Comic Art held in Dallas, Texas. The remarkable discovery is oneContinue reading Tintin in the Land of the Soviets cover art sells for $1.12 million
Bookmarks, an exhibition of cartoons on the theme of books, literature and libraries drawn by the UK’s finest and funniest cartoonists, is running now at London’s Westminster Reference Library until 22nd June 2019.Continue reading “Bookmarks” cartoon exhibition opens at Westminster Reference Library
There have been a number of tributes to acclaimed Star Trek artist Keith Birdsong, renowned for his photorealistic renderings of Star Trek actors, who passed away on 4th June 4 2019, the result of injuries sustained in an earlier car crash. He was 59. An army veteran, Birdsong created the covers for more than 30Continue reading In Memoriam: Star Trek artist Keith Birdsong
In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician and Anglican deacon, published Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, a story about a little girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole, first introducing the world to Alice and her pseudonymous creator, Lewis Carroll. There have been a huge number of visual takes on the character and her adventuresContinue reading WebFind: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by Salvador Dali