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Stan Mack the Knife

by Steven Heller October 14, 2011

I've long been a fan of Stan Mack's comics, notably his Real Life Funnies where he overhears and records verbatim ironic, sardonic and acerbic dialogue. With Bowie knife precision, he slices through the crap and turns banter into witty strips. I was recently reminded of one comic he did for the Times Book Review based [...]

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Cartoon Network – Resurrecting Bankrupt Heirlooms Circa 1997

by J. J. Sedelmaier October 3, 2011

In the spring of 1992 I was contacted by and collaborated with Betty Cohen, Tom Corey and Tom Pomposello on an in-house sales film that was to help define what Turner Broadcasting had in mind for their newly acquired library of Hanna-Barbera cartoons. I was informed that the Atlanta-based network would launch a 24hour “Cartoon [...]

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"Robin and The Earl of (George) Booth"

by J. J. Sedelmaier September 26, 2011

I’ve been fortunate enough to work with George Booth on three advertising campaigns, and he was even kind enough to design one of our cards of “Happy Holidays” past. Working with him opened vistas for me and redefined what collaboration should be all about. I’m going to focus on a two spot campaign we did [...]

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Maus Trap

by Steven Heller September 26, 2011

No other "comic book" has been as honored in literary and cultural circles as much (and deservedly) as Art Spiegelman's Maus (I + II). It was the first comix memoir to be covered in The New York Times Book Review ("Cats, Mice and History: The Avant-Garde of the Comic Strip" by Ken Tucker), the first [...]

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Crime, Corruption, Copyright, and a Kids’ Comic: Skippy

by Michael Dooley September 22, 2011

. Before Peanuts, there was Skippy. And Always Belittlin’. And The Clancy Kids. And a wealth of other illustrations by Percy Crosby, one of America's most talented comic strip artists. Born in Brooklyn in 1891, Crosby’s illustrious career began when he was in his teens, at a Socialist newspaper where fellow workers called him “Comrade [...]

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An Illustration "Celebrity Cruises" The Animation Waters

by J. J. Sedelmaier September 12, 2011

This’ll be the first of many posts (once a month, hopefully) presenting work I’ve done and the process used to produce it. When my wife Patrice and I originally opened the studio, it was to offer up to advertising clients our specialty of translating the work of illustrators, designers, cartoonists, etc., into animation for TV [...]

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A Toast to the Other Dwiggins

by Steven Heller September 6, 2011

Novelty books printed in shapes other than rectangles were common in the late 19th and throughout the 20th centuries - anything to transform the conventional into the unusual. This 1909 volume, in the shape of a skull, illustrated by Clare Victor Dwiggins (uncertain about the relationship, if any, to W. A. Dwiggins (1880 - 1956), [...]

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The Art of Peck

by Steven Heller September 2, 2011

Best known for his television, series Duckman (1994-1997, USA Network), Everett Peck is a an animator, cartoonist, illustrator, and painter. His solo exhibit at Oceanside Museum of Art (Oceanside, Ca., September 11 - January 29), It's Not My Fault: The Art of Everett Peck, "showcases Peck's, work over the past thirty years and traces his, [...]

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Harvey Pekar's Last Stand

by Steven Heller August 31, 2011

Before passing in July 2010 at age 70, Harvey Pekar wrote comics and co-edited (with Paul Bhule) an anthology about that dying Eastern European language, Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular & The New Land. Rich in lore and folkways, the book trace the influence of Yiddish from medieval Europe to New York's Lower East Side. Yiddishkeit means [...]

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Swarte's Traffic

by Steven Heller August 29, 2011

Dutch cartoonist and designer Joost Swarte plays in traffic with his exhibition at Galerie Champaka in Bruxelles from September 9 to October 9, 2011 Joost Swarte is the inventor of the term "clear line" and "Atom Style." Its design varies with pleasure these two major trends in comics, all of which are influenced by his [...]

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