David Low in 1940 on how autocrats loathe being belittled. Low’s anti-fascist cartoons had previously inspired the Third Reich to complain to the British government about them & his name was in the Nazi’s Black Book, which listed the people to be executed once the United Kingdom was conquered.

Peggy Shannon by Otto Dyar, 1931. (Thread)

New painted magnets are in the shop pamwishbow.com

British editorial cartoonist David Parkins illustrates the bottom line.

I finally figured out how to phrase it: Things used to be made to be used. Now they’re made to be sold.

Here's that time my buddy Edgar Wright joined me to talk about BLOOD & BLACK LACE for a series I created with the Denver Public Library during the pandemic shutdown. youtu.be/v_RkfteRIOI

Saturday Matinee Film Discussion: BLOOD AND BLACK LACE with Walter Chaw and Edgar Wright

YouTube video by Denver Public Library

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This Day in Buster… September 1, 1920, “One Week,” Buster Keaton’s first short film produced by his own studio, is released. #oldhollywood #silentfilm

Maurice Noble was THE cartoon background designer. I love how much he was able to fuck around around and get so abstractly graphic, yet no one in the audience ever batted an eye because his designs lent so much personality and energy to the cartoons they were used in.

Animation Obsessive@ani-obsessive.bsky.social · last wk.

What's Opera, Doc? looks fantastic. Chuck Jones credited that to his artist Maurice Noble. Noble experimented with this cartoon and took big risks. "You will never do anything interesting if you don’t take chances," he argued. We explore what he did: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/why-whats-...

Today's pickups!

I remember Peel saying about his show that out of every 10 songs he played there should be two you love and two that you hate. That was the most amazing thing it, there was always something that surprised you and made you want to explore further.

Skot Armstrong@skot.bsky.social · 3y ago

"At the heart of anything good there should be a kernel of something undefinable, and if you can define it, or claim to be able to define it, then, in a sense, you’ve missed the point." -John Peel B.O.T.D.

I had no idea that the phrase “Back to the old drawing board” comes from this Peter Arno cartoon from March 1st 1941’s New Yorker. It’s rather splendid to be able to date the birth of what would become part of everyday speech with such precision.

Tom Hardy/Mad Max A painting for The Boy. Really struggled with this one as I tried using David Grove's guoache/acrylic mixed media method. Discarded the first two attempts over unsatisfactory results, then had a fight with this third one. #madmax #tomhardy #painting

Process from an older Baltimore con yearbook

Before and after

photographic lighting and perspective is one way to make things look "realistic"; specificity is another (usually far more interesting way), and few people ever drew more specific stuff in a comic than Franquin. not a single "vague shoe shape" here

Dirty Sink Paintings of Helen Appel (b. 1976)

It's way past time that mentioning the artist when promoting books, physical media, film posters etc. should be the norm. With slop everywhere, let ppl know you hired an artist! This is good marketing, you look good because of it. Which is why it feels suspicious when ppl don't do this

Diana Dors — Robert Stewart Sheriffs, 1957

Early Cartoon Network was hugely inspired by the UPA animator Bobe Cannon. Artists like Genndy Tartakovsky loved his style of movement, studied it and put it in their work. We're looking into Cannon's methods and how they shaped these shows: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-animat...

Hal started "Prince Valiant" when he was 44, BTW. Just letting you know, in case you're one of those folks that thinks you're cooked if you haven't achieved your life-defining successes at 22 or whatever.

Comics in the Golden Age@comicsinthega.bsky.social · 3w ago

Today is the birthday of Hal Foster (Aug. 16, 1892-July 25, 1982), writer, artist, & creator of the Prince Valiant newspaper comic strip.

Wright Barker - "Circe" (1889)

Here’s my latest felt “grisaille” stone god. This is the fourth and hopefully I can find somewhere to show them when they are all complete or I’ll just have to exhibit them all in my garage. This guy is over a metre tall and hand sewn in felt.

Veronica Lake in a classic portrait by George Hurrell, 1941.

I saw this with the censored scenes restored last year in Paris (not the new WB restoration, however) and it is going to land just as hard in 2026 as it did in 1971. letterboxd.com/paulduane/fi...

Little hedgehog dude all painted and varnished 🦔🦔🦔

Orion!

I'll make a real process post at some point, but for now sharing a little BTS of our optical glass matte shot. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma's theatrical release is this week, next week for some. See you at the movies!

Shinji Nishikawa