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Enjoy this rather weird social distancing flipbook animation
Keep on doing your part by staying inside and keeping a safe distance from one another. For those who don’t have that option for whatever reason...thank you and stay safe #FlattenTheCuve #QuaratineLife...
View ArticleVideo: Behind the scenes of the Astro Boy anime (1963)
Osamu Tezuka's iconic Astro Boy TV series premiered on New Year's Day, 1963. (First episode below.) By some accounts, the cartoon was watched at its most popular point by 40% of Japanese people with a...
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Recently discovered: Eiffel's drawings for a slightly different Statue of...
In 2018, Barry Lawrence Ruderman, a rare map dealer from California, bought a folder of documents and blueprints related to the Statue of Liberty. What they didn't realize is that the lot contained...
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When Banksy has to work from home
"My wife hates it when I work from home," writes Banksy on Instagram.
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Studio Ghibli released magnificent free backgrounds for videoconferencing
Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli has released stunning free backgrounds for videoconferencing software like Zoom. Change your set and setting to Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke,...
View ArticleEdward Gorey's new book reviewed by Mark Dery
"The Angel, The Automobilist, and Eighteen Others" is a new collection of early drawings by eccentric illustrator and storyteller Edward Gorey (1925-2000). Over at The Comics Journal, Mark Dery,...
View ArticleThis AI's only function is to draw penises
DICK-RNN is a recurrent neural network trained with 10,000 doodles of dicks. You start drawing a shape and the AI tries its best to finish it as a penis. Starting with the balls helps a lot. Try it....
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Audobon's Birds of America art released as free, high-res downloads for printing
The National Audubon Society has released all of John James Audubon's magnificent watercolors from his classic work Birds of America (1827-1838) as free, high-resolution downloads for printing. The...
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Watch this artist draw a $20 bill with Princess Leia on it
"In Girls We Trust" is a Bic pen artwork by Helena Hauss. She depicts a $20 bill that replaces Andrew Jackson with feminist icon Princess Leia. View this post on Instagram In Girls we Trust Ballpoint...
View ArticleInterview with cartoonist R. Sikoryak on his new book, Constitution Illustrated
R. Sikoryak, able to perfectly mimic any other cartoonist, is the Will Elder of our time. His latest book is a word-for-word adaptation of the U.S. Constitution called Constitution Illustrated. Comics...
View ArticleChris Ware's "Last Days"cover for The New Yorker
The New Yorker's cover editor Françoise Mouly interviewed cartoonist Chris Ware about his cover for the Sep 21 issue. You've titled this "Last Days," and at some point you considered a slight...
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New rare book catalogue features a Soviet Space Race picture book with...
As a rare book dealer and specialist in the history of the book, I view printed texts as historical artifacts, holding material clues to the past. When it comes to children's books, we tend to see them...
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Hari & Deepti's paper cut light boxes
Hari Panicker and Deepti Nair create paper cut light boxes that have captured the imagination of many children who came to know them through their book The Seekers. This post juxtaposing a National...
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This AI neural network transforms text captions into art, like a jellyfish...
Appropriately named after the artist Salvador Dali and Pixar's WALL-E, OpenAI's GPT-3-trained DALL-E is an AI artist "trained to generate images from text descriptions, using a dataset of text–image...
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The home of shockingly bad sci-fi book covers
We're told from a very young age not to judge a book by its cover. That's all well and good until you're presented with something that is so visually upsetting that it puts even the most classic of...
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Dad hilariously re-creates his kid's drawings with Photoshop
Things I Have Drawn is the brainchild of a guy named Tom Curtis. Or, well, it's more the result of his kids, Dom and Al. They draw things, with all of the weird perspectives that child art tends to...
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Here are the funny ways people drew elephants in the Middle Ages
Artist Uli Westphal observes "how humans perceive, depict and transform the natural world. I am especially interested in how misconceptions and ideologies shape our view of nature." He created this...
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Hanna-Barbera presents the Velvet Underground, and other bands drawn as...
UK artist Mark (@stuff_by_mark) is a master at illustrating great bands in the iconic style of Hanna-Barbera cartoons, vintage Topps trading cards, Archie comics, and other delightful idioms. His art...
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Pass the Ball: a wonderful Rube Goldberg-esque animation where 40 artists...
Here's the idea as conceived by Nathan Boey: 3 second animation of a ball.Pass it to someone in another countryThey pick up where you left off.
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This 1987 video demonstrates the first version of Adobe Illustrator
Lucky buyers of the first release of Adobe Illustrator in 1987 received a VHS cassette with creator John Warnock's demonstration of the exciting new drawing software. I couldn't afford a Mac or...
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A day in the life of a game illustrator
Crafting video games is a layered and intricate process. If you've ever stuck around to examine the end credits after beating a video game, you know how many talented people it takes to create the...
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Fishgirlbird zine is an enchanting journey into L. Coats' phantasmagoric world
Fishgirlbird, a captivating zine by artist L. Coats, features 26 hauntingly beautiful graphite drawings created over a three-day period. Published by the small independent press "beefer," Fishgirlbird...
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From underground comix to Oscar nominations: Terry Zwigoff's career...
The amazing Drew Friedman, author and illustrator of many of my favorite books, including Old Jewish Comedians, Heroes of the Comics, More Heroes of the Comics, and Maverix and Lunatix: Icons of...
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Amazing tattoos look as if they are in motion
View this post on Instagram A post shared by A D R I R E I G A D A (@adrireigada) Adrireigada is a tattoo artist who has an amazing talent for doing tattoos that look as if they are in motion. — Read...
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Illustrator and humorist Bruce McCall has passed away
The New York Times has reported that illustrator and humorist Bruce McCall passed away today. "Bruce McCall, whose satirical illustrations for National Lampoon and The New Yorker conjured up a...
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Image of farting man from 1770 childrens book
Fart humor has always been appealing to humans, even in 1770. This children's book of riddles contained this image of a jolly fellow cutting the cheese. Why the man is tooting onto a candle stick, I'll...
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Stunning illustrations of magnified pollen from 1873
These stunning illustrations of magnified pollen from 1873 fill me with joy and cause a psychological tickle in my nose. Pollen, my long time enemy, is actually quite beautiful when it's magnified and...
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Enjoy the beautiful silliness of Edward Lear's "Nonsense Botany"
Enjoy the beautiful silliness of Edward Lear's "Nonsense Botany". These illustrations were created from 1871-1877 in a series of books about surreal, made-up plants. Some of the plants have fish...
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Watch artist Kyle Beaudette ink and paint some magnificent zombies
Watch artist Kyle Beaudette ink and paint some magnificent zombies. Beaudette's art has a playful, organic look to it that I can't get enough of. Even his simple sketches ooze with so much character...
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Dungeons & Dragons puts the kibosh on AI art for its products
So much of today's AI-generated artwork has a fantasy/science fiction vibe to it. Now, Dungeons & Dragons has put the kibosh on professional illustrators using AI-generated art in its products....
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