The Royal Ontario Museum displays original artwork from The Drama of the Forests by Arthur Heming in it’s Canada rooms.  Taking note of the title, I looked it up and sure enough, the text is at Project Gutenberg.  It’s interesting to look through, and as the painting suggests, it is insanely Canadian.

Part of what makes Heming’s works so striking is that he was told in art school that he was color blind, and so he created toned down, heavy feeling works of a palette of black, white and yellow for much of his life.

at San Diego Comic Con, I was lucky enough to go to dinner with some people from my publishing company, and Gilbert Hernandez was among them.  It was a total treat!  I told him that the book of collected Palomar stories is among my favorites of all time.  The way he describes life in a little town and the people inside it over time, you can tell if you read the work I’ve been sketching lately that it had an influence. I love this book, and I wanted to tell you.

Christophe Blain’s Hercules has a great look.  I don’t think the book is available in English but WHO CARES.

This is an old book of an old fashioned type of humor that takes a bit of getting used to.  One of those popular humorist travelogues.  Very interesting though.  "Max O'Rell" being the pen name of one Léon Paul Blouet.  I just found it, as usual, looking for something else.

Speaking of spooky stuff, you’re going to pick up Becky Cloonan’s illustrated Dracula aren’t you??

dang this 1855 book on manners is harsh on the good ol’ American Way Of Sitting