Category: Artists
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Gnosis of Noses and Eyebrows
The above images are the reasons I love Jared Chapman’s work. He helped me break through a wall of uniform facial features, and showed me the variety of constructions that can be used to create a varied, lively, American illustrative world. Thanks, Jared! (Note: best of all is bottom, center — wide-set round eyes with…
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Cowardly Clyde, by Bill Peet
I recently purchased an old copy of Cowardly Clyde, by Bill Peet, under a threadbare pretense of wanting it for our kid’s bookshelf. Ha. Totally a lie. It’s all for me. Bill Peet was one of my biggest sources of inspiration growing up. You’ve seen his work if you’ve watched Disney’s Sword in the Stone…
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Jared Chapman
Caught a major break today with the discovery of Jared Chapman (thanks, Drawn!). He’s part Scott C., part Kate Beaton, part Emily Carrol, and very much win. (Those three are a breed of American* illustrators/comics artists whose work I really respond to as non-Manga, non-Herge, authentic, emotional, graphic, and clear.) *Canada is in North America,…
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Jay Fletcher
Do yourself a solid and check out the work of Jay Fletcher — I just did, and I have to tell you: the excellence of concept and execution made me really, really depressed. I’d love to produce work of this quality at some point in the future.