Posts Tagged ‘illustration’

Last weeek I was supposed to go to Brighton for the day. I'd planned to attend a sewer tour with the Brighton Flickr group, and hoped to see the Charley Harper exhibition and had booked an advance train ticket to save money (less than a tenner instead of over twenty quid). Unfortunately, due to the [...]

In my quest to visit NotLondon this summer, Iwent to the seaside twice last week. I love the seaside. I've got a couple of posts to write up about my visits to Bexhill and Hastings (last Wednesday) and Frinton and Walton (last Saturday), but in the meantime, here's something completely different. A couple of interesting [...]

Sarah's posted the mega-long list of children's books she used in her talk at last weekend's Caption: loads of great-looking books for you to check out. Just browsing through those will keep you occupied for hours. This post on Roald Dahl covers popped up in Paul K's shared GR items last week, and today I [...]

I wasn't going to post anything today, but here's a quickie anyway. In my last post, I mentioned Jenny Everywhere, the open source comic character created by Steven and a bunch of others several years ago. This morning, for some reason, I put pen to paper and knocked up a quick sketch of her within [...]

In search of the Atom Style / Atomium 58: 14 visies [Comics and Architecture post #3] – And speaking of the retrofuture, I want to go to these exhibitions at the Atomium in Brussels. Amazing building, wonderful art, lovely beer, who wants to come with me? I'm thinking first weekend in September (it finishes on [...]

Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? [Comics and Architecture post #2] – And talking about comics and architecture, I'm quite curious to read this book, even though there's something about the art that slightly puts me off (the colours I think) But the attention to design detail sounds very impressive. "I think there’s at [...]

Architects Journal on the Top 10 comic book cities [Comics and Architecture post #1] – Meant to post this last week. Obviously it's got different stuff to what I'd have chosen — I'd have included Carla Speed McNeil's wonderful Dome of Anvard City from her comic Finder, and Rian Hughes' retrofuturistic version of London in [...]

進め!マンホールの蓋調査隊 The Research team of Manhole covers – some of these are *beautiful*. [indirectly via Paul K, I think]

Last week I mentioned that the Kuniyoshi exhibition had reminded me of a book I loved as a child, The Voyage of Prince Fuji by Jenny Thorne. It's long been out of print, and there's no information about it online, so I promised to do a post about the book, with some pictures from it, [...]

As promised in my last post, I dug out my copy of House By Mouse, written by George Mendoza and illustrated by Doris Smith. Reading through it again, I was tickled to see which houses I coveted when I was little — as indicate by a pencil caption "my house" on each one I liked. [...]