Thursday, June 26, 2008

The Mismatch of Technology and Picture Books

http://www.slate.com/id/2190586/slideshow/2190896/fs/0//entry/2190897/
("The homes we see in children's picture books—even books published in the current decade and set in the present—often seem conspicuously dated.")

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Waar is de taart?


Here's a little movie about the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre (Central Park at 79th Street and the West Drive, just south of the Delacorte Theater)

Now playing:
Pippi through Thursday, June 26, 2008. Jack and The Beanstalk, opens on Monday, July 7, 2008.

Reservations are required. Tickets are $8/adults, $5/children. 212-988-9093

Monday, June 16, 2008

“Goodnight Bush”

The manuscript— unsolicited and addressed simply to “Editor in Chief, Little, Brown” — arrived at its destination in a clear envelope, “which was very clever,” said Geoff Shandler, the Little, Brown editor in chief who received the package. “Without opening it, I could see some of the cover image they had designed.”

Astro Boy made from recycled train tickets (thanks to neatorama.com)

John Shelley

Artist in Residence - Daiwa Foundation Japan House
13/14 Cornwall Terrace London NW1 4QP
(with Satoshi Kitamura)

Saturday, June 07, 2008

Here's a pork link:

Bacon and Payola
(bacon wallet from Moxie)



The bird and the earthworm from Jurjen Bosklopper on Vimeo.

(thanks to DRAWN)

Today and Tomorrow

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art is proud to announce MoCCA Art Festival 2008, June 7th-8th, at the historic Puck Building in lower Manhattan.

Hours: 11:00am - 6:00pm Admission is $10 each day / $15 weekend pass (weekend pass only $10 for MoCCA members) Meet comics and cartoon artists! Four full ballrooms of cartoonists and publishers! Three days of entertaining and educational panel sessions! For more about this year's exhibitors, click here. For a complete schedule of this year's programming and panels, click here. For a complete schedule of this year's Featured Artist Sketch Table, click here.

2008 MoCCA Art Festival Poster - download here - PDF File

2008 MoCCA Art Festival Table Layout - download here - PDF File

Sunday, June 01, 2008

"Lorena Siminovich (born in Buenos Aires) is a San Francisco based artist, designer and illustrator. With a background in graphic design, and an extensive career as an art director, she became interested in design for children in 2001..."

FLANNERY O’CONNOR, CARTOONIST

There's a Tear In My Near Beer


Laura Levine's illustrations are fun. How "self-taught" she is, I really can't say.


Laura's style reminds me of Lynda Barry's Music Notebook, in the back of THE GOOD TIMES ARE KILLING ME (1988). Below is Lynda's painting of Jimmie Rodgers.