Take a look at this drawing kickstarter! I met these fine folks at Thought Bubble in Leeds.
(Source: kickstarter.com)
My friends at Idiot’s Books posted this, very cool! Click for the article.
Has your cat ever walked across your keyboard? Well, it’s not a new problem. Medieval book historian Erik Kwakkel recently Tweeted this photo of a 15th century book with… you guessed it… cat paw prints in ink on the pages! We’re part of a long and glorious historical movement, friends. (Source: Dr. Marty Becker)
Ah this is the best thing! Those medieval cats!
Cats gon’ be cats
(via nimbuspub)
This is an interesting DIY sort of encyclopedia of visual art
Here’s a Valentine I made for YOU.
You can see it bigger here: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8512/8473311381_1c483ab969_b.jpg
I love you! Happy Valentine’s Day!! SMOOCH
Our cups runneth over!
Check out these old valentines, they are bananas
(Source: 7deadlysinners.typepad.com)
Let’s face it, honey, my verse is terribly dated—as anything once fashionable is dreadful now. I gave it up, knowing it wasn’t getting any better, but nobody seemed to notice my magnificent gesture.
— Dorothy Parker is always the best
(Source: poetryfoundation.org)
We saw A Tribe Called Red at the AGO and they were pretty great. Dance parties at the provincial art gallery! What will they think of next.
Quite smitten with Nancy Carpenter’s pictures for Loud Emily.
yesss this New Yorker cover by Simon Greiner is so good
(I like you. I just don’t LIKE like you.)
This comic marks ten years of putting our weird strips on the internet for you. THANK YOU to everyone for letting us have this weird career!
xo, ASW
Ten years of A Softer World! I wouldn’t be here without them. Are you ten years too late for the ASW train? That only means that a treasure trove of comics await you.
From the Toronto Public Library:
In looking at the illustrations and designs created by the Group of Seven, one exceptional artist moves to the fore: J.E.H. MacDonald, the poet, painter and designer whose work was influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement.
I like the poster.
(Source: ve.torontopubliclibrary.ca)
The Reward from The Animation Workshop on Vimeo.
I’m sure many of you have seen this already, but The Reward is a short film from Denmark directed by Mikkel Mainz and Kenneth Ladekjaer. And it’s brilliant! Do watch.