Beautiful book covers: Jon Klassen’s The Watch that Ends the Night
Posts tagged with ‘Illustration’
Try these foreign edition Hobbit illustrations on for size, including work by the incomparable Tove Jansson. Watch out for a pop-up though.
Going through some of the image files on my computer. I love this cartoon! It’s from a Punch collection.
Anyway, as stiff as some of the old illustrations can be, that pianist has MOVES. And the face on the mustachioed man! And the joke! I love cartoons. This one is perfect.
From the British Museum, drawings by the great Richard Dighton, best known (to me) as the artist of The Dandy Club.
Immigration and Comics, 1880-1910 - no surprises here, 1 of 13 is positive. The one pictured above could pass for one today though, no?
A bunch of velocipedestriennes no doubt! From the National Police Gazette, thanks Yaodraws for the picture!
No one gives a shit less than these ladies
What you’ve been waiting to see today.
The fashionable Greenlander knows that what is hot right now includes sitting on whales, and putting babies down your pants.
David Blackwood’s art hits me right in the heart- the mood, the sense of place, the memory, the loss, the beauty. It’s almost too much for this ol’ Maritimer to stand. Surprising? Hah, us Maritimers are such predictable softies, sheesh, I’m tearing up thinking about me grandfadders.
I don’t think you can go too far in his native Newfoundland without getting a peek of his 1980 work Fire Down on the Labrador hanging somewhere, but if you’re unfamiliar, take a look at some more work here, or maybe visit his website.
Ma Galerie A Paris - a French blog that collects many gorgeous illustrations by different artists.
Curio Books is a company that sells old picture books, but the publish several scans of the books as they go on sale as well, so it’s a real treasure trove! If you like an image, save it, because once the book is sold the images go down. This fighting picture is one of my favorite finds from there, I love it!
I know a lot of you wanted to know where I was getting the Medieval illustrations that I was tweeting about! The answer is: a few places, but the MacKinney Collection of Medieval Medical Illustrations was a big one. Go on in and take a poke around.