RICK PERRY BY ROBERT HUNT

Catch this amazing Rick Perry on the new New Republic cover. A brilliant  example of what illustration can do for a magazine and the truth. Hunt is one of our great portraitists and art director Joe Heroun hit the bullseye with this approach. Catch his process HERE    

DAVY’S!

Jeff Haus is doing a Davy Crockett project.  Here’s a page of Davy’s on screen and stage, including a certain red haired ring-tailed roarer out of the Rabbit Ears shop of about 20 years ago.  Well, I’ll be a cross-eyed catfish. How many of these can you name?  Check it out at http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1937148067511.2106084.1206646015

POSTCARDS FROM CAMP by SIMMS TABACK

Just in time for the annual rite of kids going off to camp and hating it because, well, they’re kids, comes “Postcards from Camp” by Simms Taback. Simms is a great magician of kid lit, blending some tough reality with a guiding common sense, deep love for kids, all tied together with great warm humor. A kid’s first year CARE package will not be complete without this.

The concept is not unlike the trilogy of  Griffin and Sabine, but concise to the subject, Postcards captures the terror of camp as well as the process of discovery.  The conceit here is that both father and son are gifted graphic artists and can create beautiful cards for each other (in the Taback manner) to deal with the various issues that come up. So the conversation goes on on the front of the cards as well as the the back.

Of course, you don’t KNOW how HOT it is in the city!!!!

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JOHN CUNEO, THE COVER

One of my favorite artists is getting the spotlight this week with a fab NYr cover.  Congrats to both John Cuneo AND The New Yorker.  For being great and smart, respectively.  Hoping for many more . . .

BILL CUNNINGHAM NEW YORK

Have you seen this yet? If not, run don’t walk.  Better yet, bike.  Bill Cunningham, brilliant fashion and street and Street fashion photographer lives the total art life. In the “zone” 24/7. Art is life and vice versa. And not a cynical bone in him; loves everything he shoots.   An art monk. I can relate … Read more