December 19, 2011

Heaven

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December 12, 2011

Resembling Human Beings

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December 04, 2011

Lynd Ward Whale

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October 25, 2011

Seymour Chwast

sc_ig.jpg Beautiful cover art by Seymour Chwast for The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need... don't know the year of publication.

October 24, 2011

Snorkel (that's one way of putting it)

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October 23, 2011

Electre

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October 22, 2011

Space Station

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October 14, 2011

Havank

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October 05, 2011

Lord Baltimore Cake Mix

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August 25, 2011

Electric Gargle

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August 24, 2011

Modern Masks

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August 20, 2011

General Dynamics

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August 13, 2011

More Fish, Yeah

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August 07, 2011

Hitchcock Hairdo

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August 04, 2011

Acromegaly

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August 01, 2011

Cartoon Crybabies #8

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July 26, 2011

Grumpy Bear

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July 22, 2011

Chooing Material

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June 26, 2011

Dormant Roots

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June 16, 2011

Swell Whale

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June 02, 2011

Craft of Basketry

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May 25, 2011

Andre Durenceau

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nw_durenceau (28).jpgYeah, this is obviously a photo, perhaps taken in a museum rather than in the wild, but I can't resist an ape.

May 20, 2011

Electricity & Chalk

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May 17, 2011

Ctenophores

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May 16, 2011

Crucifiction Science

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May 14, 2011

Of Course

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May 13, 2011

Back Scratcher

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May 09, 2011

Angry Notes

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April 24, 2011

Work-Flow Chart

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April 14, 2011

Leafy

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April 11, 2011

Hold Perfectly Still

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April 10, 2011

Architectural Significance

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April 05, 2011

America Without Paper

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April 02, 2011

Bullwinkle Watch

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April 01, 2011

Alive & Well

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March 31, 2011

Creepy

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March 29, 2011

Half-Time Show

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March 28, 2011

Another Nervous System

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March 27, 2011

Acid Dropping Bottle

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March 26, 2011

34B

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March 25, 2011

Large Screw

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March 24, 2011

Magic Lanterns

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March 22, 2011

Dental Work

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March 20, 2011

Fetish Socks

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March 18, 2011

Deeper Dimensions

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March 17, 2011

Gestalts

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March 11, 2011

Wha -- ?!

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March 07, 2011

Fireworks List

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February 22, 2011

Against the Pests

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February 21, 2011

Buried Alive

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February 16, 2011

Airship Sheds & Airspace

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February 08, 2011

Weird, Man

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February 06, 2011

Big Ants

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January 28, 2011

Arches & Asses

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January 19, 2011

Le Magnetophone

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Asimov's Robots

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January 17, 2011

Adult Video Games

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January 13, 2011

Rigilian Orbits

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January 12, 2011

Allegedly Drunk

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January 01, 2011

Air is Thin Up Here

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December 23, 2010

Tracks

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December 19, 2010

Adjectives

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December 12, 2010

53 American Slices

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December 09, 2010

Christmas Crystal

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December 05, 2010

No Idea

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December 02, 2010

Best Weapon

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December 01, 2010

Missing Link

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November 29, 2010

Melon Balls

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November 28, 2010

Fucking Penguins

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November 22, 2010

Fake Splash

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November 16, 2010

Enlarged Bacteria

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November 14, 2010

Chalk Rabbit

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November 11, 2010

Boots

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November 09, 2010

Aye-Aye

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November 04, 2010

Menu Darling

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November 03, 2010

World's Largest Prop

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November 01, 2010

Charles Joslin - Childcraft

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October 31, 2010

Komputers

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October 28, 2010

Modernistic

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October 25, 2010

Needle Master

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October 22, 2010

Amber Crystal

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October 21, 2010

Facts From Figures

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October 20, 2010

George Suyeoka - Childcraft

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October 15, 2010

Foolproof Gravy

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October 13, 2010

Flesh Like Vinyl

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October 12, 2010

Beaver

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October 07, 2010

Frosty Light

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October 06, 2010

Get in Line

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Astoria

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October 04, 2010

Boris Artzybasheff - Childcraft

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October 01, 2010

666

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September 29, 2010

Beyond Tomorrow

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beyond_tomorrow (1).jpgClyde Provonsha


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beyond_tomorrow (5).jpgRobert Ayres


beyond_tomorrow (6).jpgLester Quade


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September 28, 2010

Plumes

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September 27, 2010

What Girls Want to Know About Boys

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September 25, 2010

Hans Jurgen Press - "The Adventures of the Black Hand Gang"

hjp_bhg (0).jpgSome interesting pages of art from a children's book called The Adventures of the Black Hand Gang, written and drawn by Hans Jurgen Press. At first glance I thought it merely a picture book, but quickly realized the illustrations more often than not took the form of comic book pages, which piqued my interest. Additionally, the pages weren't simply illustrating the text, but were meant to be studied by the reader for clues (from wikipedia: "Press was one of the inventors of the Wimmelbild, a genre of illustration deliberately overcrowded with detail, to pleasure children on their search for a certain item.") And the panels of each page aren't always a straighforward sequence of events, but instead a more complex variety of schematics, POVs, close-ups, etc. which I imagine would be of great fascination for a curious child or semi-literate adult such as myself.

Anyway, it's a beautifully cartooned book, and a thick one - tempted to call it a graphic novel? - about 100 pages, every other one being a full page of art. This American edition is from 1977, while the author's copyright says 1965.


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September 24, 2010

Clown Lamp

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September 22, 2010

OG

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September 19, 2010

Waiting on God

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September 16, 2010

Dayglo

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September 13, 2010

More Whitney Darrow

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September 10, 2010

FUNKPANZER

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September 09, 2010

This Book Talks

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September 07, 2010

Buzzy Bait

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September 04, 2010

People Pillows

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September 03, 2010

Learn All These Skills

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September 02, 2010

"His Divine Grace"

hdg (0).jpgI have no idea what this hogwash is supposed to mean, but these are some truly stunning, stunningly bizarre paintings. No idea who the artist is, unfortunately.


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August 31, 2010

Unknown Artist - Childcraft

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August 25, 2010

Beelzebub's Grocery List

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August 24, 2010

James Agee - Three Fragments

agee_3frgmnts (0).jpgThree extraordinary fragments from The Collected Short Prose by James Agee.


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I am an Angel

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August 23, 2010

One Block to Disneyland

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August 21, 2010

Hey God!

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August 17, 2010

Warning Sign

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August 11, 2010

War Effort, Hurrah!

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August 10, 2010

Rotifer Group

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August 08, 2010

My New Living Room

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August 04, 2010

Seafood Mousse

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August 03, 2010

Human Skin

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August 02, 2010

Rapture

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August 01, 2010

EEEEEEEK

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July 31, 2010

Bloody Castle

tingler.jpg The Tingler, directed by William Castle, 1959

16 Colors

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July 29, 2010

Velvet Mite

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July 28, 2010

Essentials of Drafting

essentials_of_drafting (0).jpgDrafting manual, unknown date.


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July 27, 2010

Who's Your Tailor, Baby?

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July 25, 2010

Jesus Generation!

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July 21, 2010

Franklin McMahon

fmc (0).jpgFranklin McMahon drawings from a Childcraft encyclopedia.


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July 20, 2010

Ken Riley

kr (0).jpgA couple nice drawings by Ken Riley from an old Readers Digest Condensed Book. More here.


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July 19, 2010

Reach for Power

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July 18, 2010

Candy Cigarettes

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July 17, 2010

Laces & Stitches

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July 13, 2010

DP

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July 12, 2010

Factory Model

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July 11, 2010

Butter Sunrise

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July 09, 2010

The Future In Color

the_future (0).jpgNot certain who created these images, but I'm positive I've seen that signature before... anyone?


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July 08, 2010

Color Crystal

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July 07, 2010

Computer Somethings

computer_somethings (0).jpgSome interesting drawings and pics from a book about computers (or possibly a chapter about the subject from a children's encyclopedia?) -- probably 40 years ago.


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July 05, 2010

Jack Davis Misc.

jd_misc (0).jpgVarious Jack Davis illustrations. This first one was the cover to Sidetracked Home Executives, written by Pam Young and Peggy Jones, 1981.


jd_misc (1).jpgThe remainder of these are from a couple golf magazines of the mid-1970s. Cartoonists and golf: an eternal WTF for me. I mean, I like miniature golf, Putt-Putt or whatever, but geez.


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July 03, 2010

Interplanetary Ephemera

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July 02, 2010

Bubblegum Pop

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June 29, 2010

Zee TP

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June 28, 2010

Cubix Cozy

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June 25, 2010

All About Using Chain Saws

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June 23, 2010

Hunger On / Hunger Off

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June 22, 2010

Better Rayon

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June 21, 2010

John Wayne - Shootist, Smoothest

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June 20, 2010

George Price - "Let's Go for Broke"

gp_lgfb (0).jpg1962 illustrations by the great George Price (more here) for Mary Lasswell's Let's Go for Broke. The smaller spots seem to merely be isolated and slightly altered bits of the larger cover piece.


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June 19, 2010

The Force

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June 18, 2010

Excellent Traction

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June 17, 2010

Subconscious Mi... Eh, What?

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