featuring Bill Watterson, Frank Frazetta, Rama Duwaji, Bob Fingerman, Alison Bechdel, Peter Kuper, Joe Dator, Charles M. Schulz, Shel Silverstein, and Art Spiegelman.Updates The original art by Bill Watterson for the first appearance of Spaceman Spiff in Calvin and Hobbes sold in a Heritage Auctions sell-off for nearly half a million dollars. A record for […]
George Herriman and Krazy Kat! Richard Felton Outcalt and The Yellow Kid! Frank Frazetta and Buck Rogers!The surreal brilliance of George Herriman It was sheer coincidence that led to the intersecting of reading “Which Language Is the Richest in Words?,” an article from Interpreters & Translators, full-page Inc. by Toni Andrews, followed by an engaging […]
What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass., closes Sunday, the 27th, giving you eight days to get there. Stockbridge is about two hours from Boston, two-and-a-half from New York City and less than an hour from Albany. I drove three hours to get there and it was […]
Over at the Mad Magazine blog, they’ve been having various staffers pick their favorite back covers as part of the magazine’s 60th Anniversary.So far, the choices had been ones that came after I’d stopped reading Mad, but this one is well-imprinted on my memory. The artist is Frank Frazetta, most of whose unequalled, astonishing work is […]