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Felix Vallotton in High Contrast
A few woodcuts from the Swiss artist Félix Vallotton (who, it turns out, died on my birthday in 1925). I’ve always loved woodcuts and his are amazing. It’s hard to believe some of them are woodcuts at all. It takes a fine hand and tremendous skill to get linework like that (I know I did woodcuts a lot in art school).
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Baseball Week (Month)
Spring training games start this week in Florida and Arizona. In a rare bit of timeliness, I’m going to take the next few posts (weeks?) to discuss some baseball comics. To start things off, this link came my way today (from DB Dowd): a New York Times slideshow of wondering Robert Weaver sketches from spring [...]
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My First Magazine Cover
Now official released to a ton of librarians my cover to the December 2007 issue of College & Research Libraries News. I was given the theme of Philadelphia because our January association meeting is here. Naturally I took a comic like layout. I also used a constraint for organizing the panels by Library of Congress [...]
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Zak Smith
Zak Smith illustrated every page of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. It is all online here. I saw it last year at the Whitney Biennial where it was displayed covering one large wall, my favorite piece by far in the show. Sadly, the online version is not the easiest way to look at this thing, but [...]
