Illustration and Pictures Have Been Teaching Doctors Medicine For Centuries; A Medical Illustrator Explains How
Drawn to Scale : A Week in the Life of Medical Illustrator Val Altounian
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Madeline and More: The Whimsical World of Ludwig Bemelmans
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Unseen illustrations Show the Genius of Biba’s Barbara Hulanicki; In Pictures
How Gen AI Tools Like Lore Machine Revisualize Storyboarding
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A Collection of Record Label Logos
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Two Drawing Shows Dazzle at the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College
How Beatrix Potter Hopped Into Our Hearts; Exhibition at the Morgan Library pays tribute to the illustrator’s prowess as a naturalist, storyteller, mycologist, and sheep farmer
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Tom Seidmann-Freud’s Book of Hare Stories (1924)
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Robert Crumb: From American Counterculture to the French Countryside; As The Festival D’angoulême Throws Open Its Doors, Art Basel Meets The Legendary Cartoonist At His Home In Provence
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Edel Rodriguez Isn’t Afraid to Live With the Consequences; Political artist drew some of the most provocative images of the Trump presidency. “Worm,” his new graphic memoir of emigrating from Cuba to the U.S., skewers the powerful once more
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Sketches from Cartoonist Daniel Clowes’s Hit Graphic Novel ‘Monica’ Go On View in Paris; Galerie Martel will showcase the various materials the graphic novelist created for his latest book
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Illustrator Caitlin Kuhwald’s Hand-Drawn Portraits Bring Iconic Faces to Life
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An Inside Look at Brooklyn-Based Artist Juan Miguel Marin’s Meditative Process
Vorja Sánchez Brings the Past to Life in a Series of Uncanny ‘Ancient Pottery’ Illustrations
Halloween Postcards (1900–1920)
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Read a Graphic Short Story: 'Dancing Queen' by Anna Readman, Winner of Observer/Faber Graphic Short Story Prize
Edel Rodriguez Isn’t Afraid to Live With the Consequences; Political artist drew some of the most provocative images of the Trump presidency. “Worm,” his new graphic memoir of emigrating from Cuba to the U.S., skewers the powerful once more
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'The Seven Lady Godivas': Dr. Seuss’s Little-Known “Adult” Book of Nudes
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50 Years Ago, She Broke Illustration’s Glass Ceiling; Exhibition of Barbara Nessim’s drawings contextualizes the artist’s graphic portraiture of women against the backdrop of shifting gender roles and equity in the US
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Illustrator David Plunkert Shares His Passion for Color and Shape
Here’s How Many Books Most People Read A Year? According to a Poll; Sales Based on Cover Art
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National Theatre at 60, from Hamlet to Dear England; In Posters!
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Lithographs of Mushrooms, from M. E. Descourtilz’s Atlas des Champignons (1827)
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Illustrator N.C. Wyeth Painting Purchased At A Thrift Shop For $4 Could Sell For $250,000 At Auction; Painting's whereabouts were unknown for 80 years, but a Facebook post led to its rediscovery
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Candid Visual Storytelling of Deb JJ Lee; Through painstakingly rendered and expressive monochromatic drawings, the nonbinary comic artist processes some of their life’s darkest moments and hardest truth
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This Japanese Artist’s Animated Paper Illustrations Are Mesmerizing
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Texas Book Festival Announces Jon Flaming as its 2023 Festival Poster Artist
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There Would Be No 'Star Wars' Without 'Valerian', the Wild French Comic From the '60s
Luc Besson's 'Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets' Trailer No. 2 (2017)
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Treat Yourself to a Moment with Artist Miena and her Moving GIF Illustrations
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Tolerance Poster Show Debuts in Japan
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Akiko Stehrenberger’s Explosive Movie Poster Art; Stehrenberger’s ability to capture the essence of a film in a single image has made her one of the most sought-after poster designers in the industry
Lewis Carroll’s Illustrations for “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground” (1864)
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The Comic Natural History of the Human Race (1851); Lampooning well-known local and national personalities of the mid-nineteenth century
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The Peculiar Art of Over Complicating Things; The Art of William Heath Robinson
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National Lampooner: On Illustrator James Gillray: A Revolution in Satire
The Music of Light: Emily Noyes Vanderpoel’s Colour Analysis Charts (1902)
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Jean Baptiste Vérany’s Chromolithographs of Cephalopods (1851)
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Full Documentary 'Sign Painters'
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Drawings of Peking Opera Characters (ca. 1900)
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Drawing Boards for the Ballets Russes
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Drawings of Vintage Matchbooks from a Bygone Hollywood Era
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Emerging into a New World, Small Figures Explore Seonna Hong’s Dreamlike Landscapes
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The Unforgettable Landscapes of Ippan Nakamura’s World of Illustrations
Erotic Cameos from Antiquity (ca. 1771)
Yuki Ogura, Pioneering Feminist of Japanese Modernism; Whether she’s depicting herself or something else, the act of making a picture clearly brought Yuki Ogura a sense of completion and even joy
Looping Tendrils and Supple Petals Overflow From Lina Kusaite’s Ethereal Botanical Illustrations
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Full Transparency: Artist Eunkyoung Son's Everyday Art of Glassware – In Pictures
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Post-Apocalyptic Illustrations of Tokyo in Ruins from Japanese Illustrator Tokyo Genso
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Artist Kayla Mahaffey Envisions the Self-Discovery of Adolescence Through Vibrantly Energetic Paintings in Acrylic; Fascinating References and Influences
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A New Camera, Lucida Redesigns a Centuries-Old Artist’s Secret that Lets Users Draw What They See
Trans Designer Dumped By Target Explains How He Got Smeared as Satanist
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Bruce McCall, Noted Humorist and Former Car and Driver Columnist, Has Died; His acerbic view of cars and the world entertained readers of the New Yorker, Car and Driver, and other magazines
See the Works of Bruce McCall!
The Fantastic City: Bruce McCall’s New York
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Max Naylor’s Ethereal Landscapes in Ink and Oil Paint Defy Nature’s Rules
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20th Century Japanese Poster Art; In Pictures
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Remembered for bringing levity to Transcendentalism, C. P. Cranch’s Very Literal Illustrations of Emerson’s Nature (ca. 1837–39)
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Kongkee Resurrects an Ancient Chinese Poet in an Energetic Cyberpunk Vision of Asian Futurism
'Sign Painters' Official Trailer (2014)
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Martin Frobenius Ledermüller’s Microscopic Delights (1759–63)
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Christoph Niemann On Wit, Distilling an Idea, and How the Internet Has Made Us Better Readers
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Indulge in the Underrated Influence of Erté |