Category: Art
Stork — Albrecht Dürer
Admiral Fudge Comes Back to Earth Again (Harry Grant Dart)
(Via; On The Explorigator’s connection to Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day).
Portrait of Tony Soprano as Napoleon Bonaparte Accompanied by His Steed Pie-O-My
The Dream — Eva Gonzales
The Orson Welles Story (BBC Documentary)
RIP Kim Thompson
RIP Kim Thompson, 1956-2013.
I probably first got to know Kim Thompson’s name through the editorial and letters pages of Dave Sim’s long-running black and white comic Cerebus. Sim had this marvelous agon with Thompson and partner Gary Groth, who were, like, the voice of comix (as opposed to, y’know, comics). Their outlet for that voice was The Comics Journal, the often ornery (and often-sued) magazine that maintained the critical and artistic traditions of cartooning against the venal backdrop of superhero comics. Thompson was also instrumental in the vision and quality of Fantagraphics Books, where he edited books by Chris Ware, Peter Bagge, and Joe Sacco, among, many many others. I still have all my issues of his anthology comic Zero Zero, which was instrumental in warping my young mind. I think I’ll dig them out now.
Fool’s House — Jasper Johns
Dick Whittington’s Cat — Ub Iwerks
Afternoon Tea — Marie Bracquemond
Twain & Einstein in “Good Grief! Still More Wuthering Heights” (Mike Kupperman)
(Via/more).
The Execution — Carel Willink
Nu Ornithologique — Lucien Clergue
Must we no longer believe in words? Since when do they express the contrary of what the organ that utters them thinks and wants?
Herein fies the great secret:Thought is made in the mouth
— Tristan Tzara, from Dada Manifesto of Feeble Love and Weak Love
Surface Tension — Hollis Frampton
Studies on the Proportions of the Female Body — Albrecht Dürer
Cassowary — Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Daydreams — Thomas Couture
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