painting out of context
In and Out with Dick and Jane
Ross MacDonald, the award-winning illustrator, and James Victore, the celebrated graphic designer, have gotten together to create a parody featuring the classic kids’ book characters Dick and Jane. This time around, though, our straitlaced protagonists are venturing into some rather dark, twisted, and bawdy places. The images are perfectly rendered in warm, nostalgic shades, and the tone of the text is sweet and simple, but the content leans toward sex, drugs, and violence, with healthy doses of innuendo. To top it off, this laugh-out-loud satire is situated inside a handsome, imitation-cloth volume resembling an old-fashioned kids’ book.
You can buy the book here.
(via @gary_hustwit)
Sendak’s Hobbit
In the late 1960s, Middle-earth enjoyed a renewed interest with the release of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy in paperback. As “The Hobbit” neared its 30th anniversary, the American publisher invited Sendak to reimagine Bilbo Baggins and his classic quest.
(thanks, Josh)
What IS a Hyaena?
Over the course of evolutionary time, the family Hyaenidae has contained roughly 100 different species, occupying a wide array of ecological niches. However, the vast majority of these species exist today only in the fossil record. Although most people think of hyenas as large, dog-like creatures with adaptations for cracking bones, this definition is inadequate because some extinct hyenas were much more like modern mongooses or civets than dogs, and many ancient forms had no special ability at all to crack bones. In fact, hyaenas are more closely related to cats than to dogs.
sightlines
You know those floating things you sometimes see in front of your eyes? Mine are starting to look like hieroglyphics.
John Welding, Illustrator | Oral History of Agbrigg and Belle Vue
As an archivist and a lover of illustration, how could I not like such a project as this by John Welding? (Thanks to clusterfriend Pete Ashton.)
Spent time yesterday redrawing illustrations for the Oral History Book Project. My first attempts didn’t quite match up with my recent efforts, which I thought were better. These are made using a light box to trace off elements with pen and brush that are needed then moved around to make the picture work, to place emphasis where it’s needed.
69 Love Songs, Illustrated
We are a loose collection of mostly London-based comic-artists, illustrators and writers, who have grown up listening to the Magnetic Fields and got together over a mutual love of the songs. One day, on Twitter, a couple of us decided that illustrating — or writing a comic — or a short story — inspired by all 69 songs was a worthwhile and exciting pursuit!
A little hit and miss, but maybe an excuse to go back and listen.
from the spam
Man if i ever saw two racoons fighting over a blogs itd be this one.
Anneka Tran, Solar System
You can download various wallpaper sizes here.
(via @wilfreeborn)
