Who? Only one of the supreme German graphic artists of his time, that's all. Long an acknowledged influence among illustrators, animators and cartoonists, he is probably known primarily for a couple of Dover Books collection of his sketchbook art that were published back in the 60s and are now hard to find.
posted to MetaFilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit at 11:21 AM on July 3, 2008 (11 comments)

Wolf William Eisenberg died this past Thursday, May 14. Comics fans may know him better as Will Elder, one of the original MAD artists who, along with Wally Wood and Jack Davis, et al, worked with Harvey Kurtzman to make "furshlugginer" and "potrezebie" household words in the 1950s. No one could pack a cartoon panel with more gags than Elder, the exemplar of the "chicken fat" school of art.
posted to MetaFilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit at 11:28 AM on May 19, 2008 (17 comments)

You know you want one. It's closer to being a reality than ever before. But how close exactly is that? Maybe closer than we think.
posted to MetaFilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit at 12:06 PM on May 6, 2008 (39 comments)

We're making another effort to find water on the moon. Beginning in 1964 with the Ranger spacecraft, we've been lobbing things at poor old Luna. Lately we've been trying to find water there so that future explorers don't have to haul the stuff up the gravity well from Earth.
posted to MetaFilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit at 6:25 AM on February 27, 2008 (25 comments)

Los Angeles! he walks again by night... ...out of the smog, into the fog. Relentlessly -- ruthlessly -- ("I wonder where Ruth is?") -- doggedly! ("Woof woof!" *) For the past 42 years the Firesign Theatre, the best comedy group of the 1960's, has been putting their art in cans from Canada to Kashmir. Up for the Grammy in 1998 and 2001, Firesign at their best combined clever, multilayered writing with pitch-perfect satirical performances as Rocky Rococco, Ralph Spoilsport, Art Holeflaffer, Hemlock Stones, Uh Clem and Barney, and many more. Back in the day, it would have been astonishing if at least one of your peers couldn't recite all of The Further Adventures of Nick Danger, Third Eye, including the sound effects.
posted to MetaFilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit at 12:16 PM on January 31, 2008 (91 comments)