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Monte Beauchamp Blabs About His Fine Art-Comics-Graphics-Illustration World

by Michael Dooley September 29, 2010

A floating bed of nails is ablaze. A crying child floats down a river in a coffin. Disembodied hands drip blood from the sky. These are just a few "Scenes from the Afterlife," a.k.a., the 2010 Blab Show. It premiered at the Society of Illustrators' Museum of American Illustration in New York, and is now [...]

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Roger Black Discusses Future Potential for Type Design

by Michael Dooley August 16, 2010

Roger Black is currently embroiled in design disputes ... again! At New York's Type 1987, Roger went head-to-head with Paula Scher over ITC's version of Garamond. At AIGA's Miami conference in 1993, during his stint at Esquire, it was him against David "Raygun" Carson, fighting about publication design. But hey, that was way back when [...]

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ICON Reax, Part 2: Is Animation the Future of Illustration?

by Michael Dooley July 26, 2010

Here's the second half of my report on ICON 6, the illustration conference held in Pasadena, California, from July 14th to the 17th. This installment continues the feedback I've gotten about the "Future of Publishing" keynote panel discussion. There were a couple of issues that provoked a wide variety of strong emotions: are art directors [...]

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ICON Reax, Part 1: Is Animation the Future of Illustration?

by Michael Dooley July 21, 2010

So Print – as in "print" – has launched its daily blog (the good news is that it's not called "Out Of Print.") But what else can be said about publishing's future? This issue was the primary topic of discussion and debate throughout the ICON 6 illustration conference. Held at the Langham Hotel – formerly [...]

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Craig Yoe Talks ICON, Krazy Kat, and Whether Today's Cartoonists Ever Get Laid

by Michael Dooley July 7, 2010

Craig Yoe has been called a "celebrated designer" by no less an authority than The Onion. Formerly the Creative Director/VP/GM of the Muppets, Craig is co-creative director of YOE! Studio, and his lively book layouts, such as for his Arf series about comics history, are elegant examples of form following fun. His controversial “Secret Identity: [...]

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Nicaragua Spraycation, part one...

by Caleb Neelon June 28, 2010

[Read Part 2] Daniel Ortega came to power in Nicaragua in 1979 after a populist revolution. Formally elected president in 1985, he promised to break up the oligarchy and to continue the self-governing ideals of Sandino and Carlos Fonseca, the inspiration and founder of the FSLN, or Sandinista party. This put him in Reagan’s crosshairs, [...]

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