Tag: Art
Al Jaffee amazement
We take back everything bad we were just saying about The Internet. This Flash-based New York Times tribute to Mad's Al Jaffee and his...
Pretty, pretty pictures: Charles Vess
This has been up for a while, but we've never linked to it. Reknowned fantasy artist Charles Vess has been designing a fountain themed...
NPR: Adrian Tomine’s ‘The Donger and Me’
In more NPR comics news, they present Adrian Tomine's 'The Donger and Me', an examination of the character from John Hughes lovably racist Sixteen...
You Can Never Get Enough N.C. Wyeth, Part XII
You just can't. Check previous entries for even more breath-taking Wyeth goodness. Ah, far Selidor!
Alex Robinson’s Next Book
Alex Robinson's next book is out this July, a graphic novel entitled TOO COOL TO BE FORGOTTEN; it's the cmedic tale of a sorty-something...
Awesome BEAST-y goodness
BEASTS art director Jacob Covey has linked to a Flickr page of submissions for his open call and the results are super tasty. Above,...
Penguin’s US Classics win design award
Penguin's well-received line of classics with covers by comics-type illustrators (such as Chris Ware, above)has won the Design Museum’s Brit Insurance Design Awards :
The...
You can never get enough Gustaf Tenggren
Is it time for another one of our Gustaf Tenggren-inspired panegyrics? Yes it is, courtesy of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive. Seriously, you should just...
More on Dave Stevens
The comics industry and blogosphere has been overflowing with tributes to the late Dave Stevens, who died Monday. His work influenced many people --...
Saul Bass vs Star Wars
http://www.youtube.com/v/z25t-PQDn5A
We're reasonably sure that the highly erudite folks who read The Beat get this joke, but just to give a little background, Bass was...
