STANDARDS

Recently, a column in Editor & Publisher magazine proclaimed that the comic strip For Better or Worse (above) is "the best comic in...

AHHHHHHH..... NOEL SICKLES

Alex Toth argued that art should be stripped of all gimmicks and pretension: Simplicity is a great god. Truth. Throw out all the junk. There...

I LOVES POSSUMS TOO

Why would any artist choose to work in the medium of the comic strip? The pictures are squeezed into tiny boxes where they compete for space...

WINOLD REISS

Winold Reiss was a German art student who painted in the Viennese style and came to America to meet American Indians but ended up in Harlem ...

WHERE MEN AND MOUNTAINS MEET

William Blake, the great English mystic, observed: Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the s...

ONE GREAT HORSE'S ASS

Harold von Schmidt was an excellent 20th century illustrator who doesn't seem to get much attention these days. He did superb work, but ...