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Save The American Prospect

Steve Brodner — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:34:56 EDT

Below are some illustrations commissioned recently by The American Prospect. Prospects for The American Prospect, a great magazine for politics and art, are looking dark. Now is the time for all good artists to come to the aid of their industry. This magazine weds journalism and illustration especially well because of its brilliant art director Mary Parsons. Many of us have worked with her at the Prospect as well as previously at The Atlantic and elsewhere. She understands...
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Wall Paper

Gerard DuBois — Fri, 25 May 2012 01:31:45 EDT

Couple of months ago I've been approached by a french company to see if I would be interested to work on a wall paper for children. The idea was to build a collection of classical type of wall papers, pretty much inspired by toile de jouy, (or toile), each of them would have a classical book as main theme, and illustrated by different artists; the kind of wallpaper you'd put only on one wall only. The company owner, Simon-Pierre Herman, a true litterature...
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D Train

Marcellus Hall — Thu, 24 May 2012 19:01:28 EDT

New illustration for the June issue of the Atlantic.
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Who's That Girl...

Julia Breckenreid — Thu, 24 May 2012 18:21:34 EDT

New painting for kicks... I don't know her name, but I like her.
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Illustrations from my students 2011-2012

Tim OBrien — Thu, 24 May 2012 18:07:06 EDT

I go into each new year as professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn with a sense of anxiety. New faces, younger every year, stare back at me as I introduce myself and talk about expectations. As time has gone on and I've been teaching over 20 years now, the comfort kids have with me has decreased. As I gained notoriety in the field and gotten older, they seem more reserved around me, some are actually scared. I...
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FU

David Goldin — Thu, 24 May 2012 15:16:09 EDT

“F.U.,” an exhibition that examines and beautifully illustrates U.S. Fair Use laws as they pertain to artists, will open Memorial Day weekend at WFG Gallery. As show curator Norm Magnusson explains, “If you’re an artist engaged in any kind of collage, you will most likely at some point create something that uses parts of something else. When you do, you’ll be subject to Fair Use laws,” he says. “That which the arts community calls...
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HOW TO CREATE CARTOONS (complete)

Stephen Kroninger — Thu, 24 May 2012 15:07:33 EDT

By Popular Demand---the complete FRANK TASHLIN'S HOW TO CREATE CARTOONS, published 1952. Frank Tashlin had achieved recognition as a children's writer when he entered the film industry to work in the animation units at Disney and Warner Bros. Both of these early careers would have decisive import for the major films that Tashlin would direct in the 1950s. This early experience allowed Tashlin to see everyday life as a visually surreal experience, as a kind of...
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The Zen of Nimbus #14

Michael Sloan — Thu, 24 May 2012 14:44:35 EDT

Seen on a London Plane tree. Here's my latest Zen of Nimbus comic:
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Memoranda Mayo

Joseph Fiedler — Wed, 23 May 2012 21:18:19 EDT

Here are a few recent projects for New Orleans Magazine and The New Crisis Magazine. I'm very fortunate to have these clients as I've said before. At any rate, the deadlines are tight and the budgets are small but I just love to work for them as it allows me to feel a deep cultural connection to the African American spirit through meaningful content and appreciative art direction. I need a break so on Sunday, I leave for 3 weeks in France. Steven Seagal has graciously...
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My Father: Sexual Predator

Julia Breckenreid — Tue, 22 May 2012 15:52:17 EDT

"Is there anyone more reviled than a sexual predator? He’s that leering, grubby man with a two-day growth of beard and yellowed eyes — the guy who lingers outside schoolyards and slinks alone through amusement parks looking for the child who lets go of her mother’s hand for a moment too long. Or he’s my father." MORE Magazine, June 2012 MORE Magazine, June Issue"Is there anyone more reviled than a sexual predator?...
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NINE WEEKS

Brad Holland — Tue, 22 May 2012 08:03:20 EDT

For nine weeks this spring, I contributed a picture or two every week to a French publication entitled 9 Semaines Avant L’Election. The subject was politics and each issue had a theme. The themes were not the basic talking points that usually fuel election rhetoric, drive campaign organizations and serve as platforms for politicians to promise things they know they can never deliver. Instead they were the great backdrop issues against which a nation’s electoral...
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Workin' Joe

Douglas Fraser — Mon, 21 May 2012 20:20:30 EDT

Last week Joe Heroun of The New Republic emailed, and asking if I was up for a cover assignment. Working with Joe has been a great pleasure of mine. He requested a vector execution of subject matter that I've traditionally handled with oils. That subject being the worker, or blue collar person. Strangely I've not done too many blue collars on workers, hmmm…. Well, anyhow, I've enjoyed Joe's direction in past as it's gotten me delving into thoughts(visual ideas)...
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Exercise Book 23

Walter Vasconcelos — Sat, 19 May 2012 15:20:58 EDT

Rolling Stone: the hits, the misses

Jody Hewgill — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:54:05 EDT

I always get an adrenaline rush receiving an assignment from Rolling Stone. The deadline is often short, the story's seldom available, but the creative team at RS are always amiable and helpful to work with. When I get it right I'm on a creative high, when I get it wrong, I kick myself mercilessly for weeks on end. But I'm learning to take that in stride, because the failures are part of what drives me to reach higher. They say you learn more from your mistakes than from your...
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Weeds

Rob Dunlavey — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:04:51 EDT

I've been thinking about weeds a lot this Spring. All winter as a matter of fact. Back in September, I dug up clods of dandelions, grass and plantain and kept them in my studio. One sunny autumn day, the dandelions blossomed and went to seed. And now with Spring all around us, I'm intoxicated by the greenness of it all. I love weeds. All this weed-love is part and parcel of the picture book I'm working on now for Schwartz & Wade*. *a small aside: many thanks to Barry...
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dARWINISM

Andy Ward — Fri, 18 May 2012 14:45:03 EDT

Not exactly the transmutation of a species but somewhere in the fabric of this post must lay an excuse to allude to an ism. I’ve recently been working on a series of natural history prints for children. Before dragging themselves to land and learning to walk upright the ancestor of this series of images began life as a single character developed for a children’s book pitch. Albert lion was shelved around 10 years ago and the character was picked up again in 2005 and...
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Fear of the Dark

Bill Mayer — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:34:35 EDT

I walked into a dark room and waited for the light to form outlines around the objects in the room. I was thinking that if I sat there long enough that my eyes would adjust and I could make out faint lines around the objects in the room. I waited and waited there but no colors appeared instead just black, only back… I thought about a story an art director from Japan was telling me some time ago. We were working on a calendar together. When he was a child...
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Fear Of God

Lou Beach — Fri, 18 May 2012 02:28:09 EDT

Gearing up for some shows, producing new work.
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Il successo del Brasile

Daniel Pelavin — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:33:07 EDT

Thanks to the recent outstanding success of Brazil's "Samba" economy, I was tapped to do a cover for Internazionale "treating the word "Brasil" like the logo of a multivitamin/Gatorade/exotic fruit juice. Something giving the idea of energy, colors, brightness, explosion." Given that the final would be due around 3 am my time Wednesday morning and I wouldn't be able to even begin sketching till Monday evening after driving up to Purchase and...
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Sage Advice...

Bill Mayer — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:35:46 EDT

Another spot illustration for the fabulous SooJinn Buzelli. This one was an article for Upfront section of Plan Advisor, called " Sage Advice". My thinking conceptually started with trying to draw from and old Aesop fable , Like the tale of "The Ant and The Grasshopper" or " Icarus" who ignored the advice of his father and suffered the fall into the sea. But all of these seemed maybe a bit off tract so I tried something a bit more abstract. The...
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The Zen of Nimbus #13

Michael Sloan — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:24:41 EDT

Improving reception. Here's my latest Zen of Nimbus comic:
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