MAGIC THAT BELIEVES ITSELF

Art, being bartender, is never drunk And magic that believes itself must die                          -- Peter Viereck This passionate drawi...

CUL DE SAC

America's great poet, Walt Whitman, worked most of his life writing and revising his epic poem, Leaves of Grass .  He would add or subtr...

ONE LOVELY DRAWING, part 41

This lovely drawing was a single panel in a story by Mort Drucker for MAD Magazine in 1972.  It occupied a mere 3.75 inches x 12.75 inches i...

DOUGLAS DUER (1887-1964)

You don't hear much about Douglas Duer these days but the once popular illustrator painted for books and magazines from 1912 until the G...

REPORT FROM COMICON, part 2

Every artistic choice represents a struggle over the significance of information: How much information needs to be included in the picture a...

REPORT FROM COMICCON, part 1

Once again, this year's ComicCon brought together the world's most diverse array of pictures of large breasted barbarian women weari...

THE LENGTH OF YOUR LEASH

James Williamson for the Saturday Evening Post (1949) There is a gap, at least 12 tugboats wide, between what an artist can imagine and what...