A WEEK OF GRUGER, day 3

On Tuesday a commenter suggested that Gruger "paints with a pencil." Here is a good example of that effect: Illustration for the C...

A WEEK OF GRUGER, day 2

In 1928,  F.R. Gruger was so popular that the Saturday Evening Post published a cartoon by another artist about ways "Gruger could guar...

A WEEK OF GRUGER

Nobody talks much today about Frederic Rodrigo Gruger (1871-1953), but years ago, Time magazine proclaimed Gruger "the dean of U.S. ma...

THE SONG OF THE CYNODONT

Cynodont 250 million years ago, before death negotiated its current truce with life, death nearly wiped out all life on earth in a fit of ex...

WARRING WITH TROLLS, part one

 "To live is to war with trolls"  --Henrik Ibsen Legendary graphic designer Milton Glaser invented the famous "I Love New Yo...