Art
An Illustrator's Whimsical Perspective on the Everyday
"[I]t's incredible to still spend my days conjuring and creating as an adult,” says Rosanna Tasker.
Illustration
Art
The Operatic Impulses of Maurice Sendak
The famed children's book author and artist considered the theater his "second career." An evening talk and live performance will explore his font of creativity.
Books
Capturing the Timeless Drawings of Milein Cosman
Ines Schlenker’s illustrated biography, Milein Cosman: Capturing Time, proves Cosman’s importance both as an artist and as a chronicler of her period in artistic history.
News
A Grandfather Illustrates His Grandchildren's Childhoods With a Moving Instagram Account
Chan Jae Lee (Grandpa Chan) started his simultaneously heartbreaking and heartwarming account Drawings for my Grandchildren to document the rapid growth of his grandchildren.
Art
Five Decades of Courtroom Artists Capturing What Cameras Can’t
The Library of Congress selected examples from its collection of 10,000 courtroom drawings to show how artists are essential to public understanding of American trials.
Books
Comics that Bend and Borrow from Reality
Sean Karemaker dispenses with the rigid panel grids and other conventions that most people commonly associate with comics for The Ghosts We Know from Conundrum Press.
Art
Seymour Chwast’s Graphic Battle Against War
A 5,000-year chronicle of human violence is the goal of illustrator Seymour Chwast's new book project, which follows his almost six-decades of antiwar art.
Books
Illustrated Dolphins and Vampire Squid from the Dawn of Ocean Exploration
In the 16th century, Pierre Belon published one of the earliest scientific depictions of a dolphin: a woodcut with finely hatched skin and pointed teeth.
Art
An Army of Artists Draws Batman
There are few fictional characters that can be evoked through just a symbol, but Batman is one of them, with the outline of his flying namesake, or a suggestion of the crime fighter's black mask.
Art
Idyllic Illustrations of Daily Postwar Life
In 1915, during World War I, the printing company Wills & Hepworth began publishing "pure and healthy literature" for children marked with a ladybird logo, giving rise to the London-based publishing company now known as Ladybird Books.
Books
UK Artist Parodies Trolling with Snail “Hate” Mail
Nearly half of all internet users have found themselves targeted by trolls.
Art
Surreal Japanese Illustrations Capture the Spirit of Andersen's Fairy Tales
Although adults may misremember them as light children's stories, the 19th-century fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen commonly deal with themes of loneliness, forced journeys far from home, and the precariousness of existence.