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Introducing Heinrich Kley

Guy_Inamonkeysuit — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:21:21 -0800

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. All but forgotten today, his work informed Disney's "Dance of the Hours" sequence in Fantasia. His cartoons were unusually trenchant for the times, given that he did much of his most enduring graphic work in Germany between the wars. His use of animals to illustrate human foibles and failings was second to none. But let's allow the master's work to speak for itself.

Uncompromising alternative

Abiezer — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:23:05 -0800

The art of Flavio Constantini. Naval officer turned anarchist Constantini (1926- ) paints rebels, martyrs, assassins, writers, and architecture, all with a special quality of light.

The wilder planet of Roland Topor

elgilito — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:05:52 -0800

Topor et moi. Roland Topor was the graphic artist behind the beautiful Planète Sauvage (Cf. a few posts below) but his body of work also included founding the Panic Movement with fellow oddballs Jodorowsky and Arrabal, writing plays and novels (The Tenant, turned into a movie by another Paris-born celebrity of Polish extraction and amateur of bizarre, Roman Polanski), and making strange and popular TV shows for children (YouTube clips from the 80s). Except for the kids shows, most of the links are quite NSFW with abundant sex and/or violence, though in a cartoonish, disturbing, surreal, or even political way: Topor once said (YouTube documentary in French starting with his Phallunculi series) that to renounce sex was to banish oneself from mankind. Topor himself was also a familiar figure of the French cultural landscape, instantly recognisable thanks to his manic cackle (heard at the beginning of this video where he explains how to make art from random pornographic images), that he (over)used to play the madman Renfield in Herzog's Nosferatu.

Penguin Book Cover Design

jonson — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:08:11 -0800

Penguin Books is an all too brief Flickr Photoset of Penguin Book cover designs from decades past. For those interested, this book is highly recommended.

Industrial Design

crunchland — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 10:36:21 -0800

Patent Room is a collection of early 20th Century industrial design culled from the archives of the U.S. Patent Office, featuring architecture, automobiles, toys, and trains.

moz — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 08:54:17 -0800

Cat and Girl "...are a metastatic cultural force with new adventures every monday." Read as the bespectacled Cat and bemused Girl live the examined life. And for God's sakes, it's the pepper! Take the pepper! (thanks to riotnrrd of memepool.)

ecvgi — Mon, 10 Sep 2001 05:33:36 -0800

The American Institute of Graphic Arts offer a selection of useful symbols in eps and gif formats for free download. Are there any other sites offering similar symbols?

holloway — Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:30:27 -0800

More a conversation than a comic - and that's no bad thing. Of particular note is his "I Can't Stop Thinking", and the 24hr Comic. Author of Zot, too.