John Starr Stewart Ex Libris Collection

"The Ex Libris (bookplate) illustrations below were selected from the first half of the enormous John Starr Stewart Collection at the University of Illinois. Will from 50Watts sampled the back half of the same database: [The Bookplate Collection: Second Half]."

"SHORN of all the romance and glamour which seem inevitably to surround every early phase of typographic art, a Printer’s Device may be described as nothing more or less than a trade mark. It is usually a sufficient proof that the book in which it occurs is the work of a particular craftsman. Its origin is essentially unromantic, and its employment, in the earlier stages of its history at all events, was merely an attempt to prevent the inevitable pirate from reaping where he had not sown. At one time a copy, or more correctly a forgery, of a Printer’s Mark could be detected with comparative ease, even if the body of the book had all the appearance of genuineness."

"Molesworth sa on the contry the most beatiful form in art is a Ronald
Searle GURL from St Trinian=92s in a tunick with black suspenders and armed
with a hockey stick to beat the daylites out of another gurl or maybe just
a teacher chortle chortle."

Six Versions of Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy's Novel Drawn by Zak Smith, Sean McCarthy, John Mejias, Craig Taylor, Shawn Cheng, and Matt Wiegle

"What can I possibly say!!?!?"<br />
<br />
Thus begins a 1965 letter from comedian Joan Rivers to future New York Times theater critic Mel Gussow. In the letter, located in Gussow's archive at the Ransom Center, Rivers thanks Gussow profusely for publishing an article about her at such a formative point in her career. Rivers closes the letter: "To say 'thank you very, very much' sounds so trite but I really mean it—I'm floating on air." Then, when words don't suffice, Rivers lets a picture take over: a hand-drawn stick figure of herself literally floating on air, beaming atop a cloud.

Minimalist children's book cover illustrations

"As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, there is one thing nearly all modern Americans have in common: we sit all the time. Though our great shift towards computer-based work has done great things for productivity, it has, unfortunately, done terrible things for our health. From increased risk of heart disease and obesity in the long term, to sharply hampered cholesterol maintenance in the short term, the negative health effects of sitting are starting to weigh heavily against the benefits. Even the medical field – the greatest advocates and reducing sitting time– is plagued by this new health issue. Though doctors and nurses get plenty of walking time, it usually falls to the secretaries, billers, and coders to do all the sitting. And, as we can see, something has to change."

"The buildings, terrains, and spaces Mignola's plots take place within are equally extraordinary: there are remote, factory-like castles north of the Arctic Circle, wired floor-to-ceiling with arcane laboratory equipment; maritime plagues and New England shipwrecks; intelligent geological formations in space, larger than planets, signaling down to Army radar stations at the end of World War II; abandoned mines and ruined churches; Mayan fragments mounted on the luxurious, candlelit walls of Alpine mansions; Nazi conspiracies and fallen astronauts; derelict Victorian houses wrapped in fog on the coastal moor. "

"These altered book drawings by will ashford are incredible. I love the idea of using old books to create new art..."

Illustrating Joyce's Finnegan's Wake

"Fonografiks is busy re-imagining popular comics as second-hand paperbacks from the Sixties and Seventies.  Wonderful stuff at the link.  Also, these two obscure works..."

SVG clipart Library

"An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format."

"A morbid take on the alphabet where fruits and vegetables are being killed."

The following article, and the accompanying 'ideas chart', were written
for CARTOONIST PROfiles by RONALD SEARLE, the noted European cartoonist
who makes his headquarters in Paris. He created St. Trin-ian's, which
has become a part of English folklore, has illustrated more than 40
books in the past 23 years, has designed sets and costumes for films,
made his own cartoon film John Gilpin', and constantly does work for
American, French and German magazines. One of his publishers describes
him as Europe's most accomplished cartoonist - a macabre black
humourist, a lynx-eyed reporter, a gagman of genius, a draughtsman of
the stammering line and the delirious arabesque that inimitably
characterises his world.

"Pendleton Ward's AdventureTime with Finn and Jake premieres on Cartoon Network in the spring of 2010. The show's background designers are Ghostshrimp and Santino Lascano, the painters are Sue Mondt and Martin Ansolabehere. Nick Jennings is the art director."

How much do I love this picture?

"Just a bunch of drawings done using the Brushes application on the iPhone/iPod touch. There's no plan or narrative, just drawing for the sake of it. And there's more or less no editiing; unless something is really crappy, it'll appear here, like a sketchbook. Rather than giving this section a prosaic title that overly promotes Apple products, like "iPhone drawings," I borrowed a phrase that came as the entire body text in an email from a Japanese visitor regarding my Shakse drawings. I assume it was a compliment. Sadly, I forget his/her name, but the phrase has stuck in my mind for several years."

"an elegant and simple to use drawing app which translates the look and feel of pencil drawing to your phone. its minimal user interface and graphics are well thought out and considered. pinch to zoom, two-finger swipe to pan, tap to toggle navigation bar."

Absolutely lovely point and click game, great art, great music

Lovely good cartoons

"All works from La Danse Macabre by Rene Georges Hermann-Paul, 1919 from the collection of Richard Sica"

Alan Moore's new fanzine website, lots of lovely Flash animation

"Claire Murray is the creator of a hand drawn map and guide to Scotland's capital city, which you can buy for only $10. The guide includes: where to find the best breakfasts; real pubs; fancy cocktails; what to do on a rainy day; how to conquer Arthurs Seat and a hell of a lot more."

Wonderful matchbox labels from around the world, some going back to the 1920s. Be sure to check out the full set on Flickr.

Good music, good cover, good art

AN EXTENSION OF A PERSONAL ART COLLECTION OF VARIOUS ARTISTS INTERPRETING THEIR FAVOURITE LITERARY FIGURE/AUTHOR/CHARACTER THAT HAS BEEN ACCUMULATED SINCE 03.1998

Fantastic notepad sketches from Ukranian fan of video games and Kanye. Slideshow at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mykola31/show

Spam (the email kind, not the delicious meat substitute) turned into poetry and/or art

Just another bunch of nice book covers.

"When they were given to me a number of years ago, the prints were accompanied by a photocopied page that says, in part, "the Artist for this calendar for 1971 is Mr. Takeshi Nishijima, Professor of Art at Kyoto University. A graphic and textile designer, he has exhibited in numerous one man shows and won the coveted Grand Prize at the Kyoto Art Exhibit." As far as I can tell, however, none of the above examples are from 1971, and thus far I've found very little information on Takeshi Nishijima." Ha, sounds like the middle of a Murakami story.

Yaaaayyyy!

Been looking for something like this for ages! "Street Anatomy obsessively covers the use of human anatomy in medicine, art, and design."

"Walls Notebook is a notebook / sketchbook with 80 "clean" New York City walls as your blank slate. Write, draw, paste, or doodle on these interesting and inspirational backdrops. You'll be one step closer to being the graffiti artist you've always wanted to be . . . minus the jail time."

Makes me greedy for the smoke

Beeeautiful old (WWII) Japanese postcards

"Video games vs Penguin Classics."

Brilliantly illustrated novelizations of classic films

Seventh graders describe scientists before and after a visit to Fermilab. Lovely.

"What do Borges, the entire history of scientific illustration, and Breton’s attempts to introduce a new letter to the French alphabet have in common?"

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We are all meat in the end