Lou Romano’s Monster Squad
May 17th
Pixar LAIKA artist Lou Romano just posted this great series of monster paintings inspired by the 1987 film Monster Squad.
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This Won't Hurt A Bit
Mar 31st
Medical Caricatures from 1736-1932 at Lowcountry Digital Library. Other than the fact that the guy has gout, I'd say the second illustration here is just for the risqué.
Matthew Cruickshank: Philip and the Stove
Mar 17th
Matthew Cruickshank presents Philip & The Stove, a wordless comic/illustrated story told with some beautiful digital illustrations. See also: Matthew’s blog.
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Book Covers: New Maps of Hell
Mar 3rd
"Book jacket for a Kingsley Amis book. From Graphis Annual 61/62. "sandiv999's Flickr: Milton Glaser Illustration 2
via This Isn't Happiness
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Almanaque Bertrand, 1934 – A Curious Distraction
Feb 13th
Almanaque Bertrand, 1934 - 56, originally uploaded by Gatochy.
Umi-bōzu
Feb 10th
"Umi-bōzu are giant black bulbous beings that live in the sea. Sometimes they have glowing eyes and a beak, and other times they have no facial features at all. To survive an umi-bōzu encounter at sea, one should remain quiet and look in the opposite direction. Speaking or looking at the creature may send it into a rage — and that usually ends in tragedy." link
The Takeo Takei Lab of Ornithology
Feb 8th
Shared by johnlumgair: These are great. reminds me of Paul Klee's birds
Takeo Takei, 1974
Takeo Takei, 1968
Takeo Takei, 1969
Takeo Takei, 1970
Takeo Takei, 1973
Takeo Takei, 1969
Takeo Takei, 1970
Takeo Takei, 1973
Works by one of my favorite artists, Takeo Takei (1894-1982). These prints come from one of the jewels of my collection -- a handmade artist book that a friend found for me on a recent trip to Japan. It would be nice to own the original prints, but that is never going to happen.
If you want to buy all 139 handmade books by Takeo Takei and have $45,000 to spare, go here.
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Almanaque Bertrand, 1934 – The aeroplane in farming
Feb 2nd
Almanaque Bertrand, 1934 - 66, originally uploaded by Gatochy.
We have captured a most rare specimen of an extinct insect
Feb 2nd
(detail of 2-page spread)
This second installment of my Soviet-era children's book series features George Kovenchuk's 1974 illustrations for Klop (The Bedbug) by Mayakovsky.
You can read a thorough summary of the famous 1929 play -- not originally intended for children! -- at SovLit. (And here are some fascinating images from the first staging.) The title of this post quotes from Max Hayward's translation of the play (see The Bedbug and Selected Poetry).
I used a virtual Cyrillic keyboard to figure out the illustrator's name. Because this important bit of information was hidden in the book, I had to type about fifty words before finding it -- and so I basically learned the Cyrillic alphabet in the process. Good times.
Previously: Mummy was a robot, daddy was a small nonstick kitchen utensil
Tresky Plesky or Kvanki Vanki
Jan 19th
International children's books from the collection of Rilla Alexander
Links under the images bring you to additional images on Rilla's website.
Der Verkaufte Traum, illus. Ferdinand Hloznik, 1977, binding
Historien om fire børn, en missekat og en kvanki-vanki, Edward Lear, illus. Ungermann, 1950
Abenteuer run ums schachbrett (Adventures around the chessboard) by Mihail Sadoveanu, illus. Val Munteanu (Romania, 1980)
The above and below books are from the collection of Rilla's friends the Mobergs
Hikari no Kuni
Mali Sportovci by Josef Brukner, illus. Kornelie Němečková, 1985
Ovoce, Ovoce na nasí zahrádce by Jan Carek, illus. Libuse Loskotova, 1962
Der Zauberring (The Magic Ring), illus. by Michale Romberg (Artia, Prague, 1972)
Tresky Plesky by Miroslav Florian, illus. Zdenek Sedyl, 1972, inside
A big thank you to Rilla -- an accomplished designer and illustrator herself -- for sharing her collection here.
Der Verkaufte Traum, illus. Ferdinand Hloznik, 1977, binding
Historien om fire børn, en missekat og en kvanki-vanki, Edward Lear, illus. Ungermann, 1950
Abenteuer run ums schachbrett (Adventures around the chessboard) by Mihail Sadoveanu, illus. Val Munteanu (Romania, 1980)
The above and below books are from the collection of Rilla's friends the Mobergs
Hikari no Kuni
Mali Sportovci by Josef Brukner, illus. Kornelie Němečková, 1985
Ovoce, Ovoce na nasí zahrádce by Jan Carek, illus. Libuse Loskotova, 1962
Der Zauberring (The Magic Ring), illus. by Michale Romberg (Artia, Prague, 1972)
Tresky Plesky by Miroslav Florian, illus. Zdenek Sedyl, 1972, inside
A big thank you to Rilla -- an accomplished designer and illustrator herself -- for sharing her collection here.