CARTER GOODRICH

Last week I wrote that animated films are  corporate artwork, polished and refined by so many committees that it is often difficult to find ...

TEAM ARTWORK

Comic artist Will Elder described how he and Harvey Kurtzman made art on an assembly line: We had to bring in guys to help make [Little Anni...

MAN AND MERMAID, 100 YEARS LATER

A century ago, Howard Pyle painted this classic image of man and mermaid locked in a passionate embrace: Pyle's image is a metaphor for...

A WEEK OF GRUGER, day 6

To finish my (rather extended) week of Gruger, here is one more original with a slightly different approach. In this ambitious composition o...

A WEEK OF GRUGER, day 5

OK, so these posts spilled over into more than a week, but here are some more scans from original Gruger drawings that show his masterful dr...

A WEEK OF GRUGER, day 4

In 1928, Gruger was assigned by the Saturday Evening Post to illustrate a long and tedious detective story.  Rather than draw another dozen...