Robert Hanks
Recent articles by Robert Hanks
Consequences for the comic artist
Issue 82, Winter 2012
Nelson is, according to Rob Davis’s introduction, ‘a testament to what comics…
Iron curtain Vegas
In the mind’s eye, the Eastern Europe of the cold war is painted with a grey…
Artwork and play
Issue 72, Summer 2009
Brian Knight’s lovingly detailed paintings of ships, planes and cars trace an elegiac path for…
Nuffin’ like a Puffin
Issue 77, Autumn 2010
Phil Baines’s Penguin by Design: A Cover Story (2005) was, even at a glance, a…
Recent blog posts by Robert Hanks
Banham’s Melbourne letters
26 March 2013
The first thing you think on flipping through Characters is: Wow, I wouldn’t mind living in Melbourne, writes Robert Hanks.
Lubbock’s brilliance
21 February 2013
During his lifetime, the prickly, uproarious brilliance of Tom Lubbock’s writing on art was a frustratingly well kept secret, writes Robert Hanks, hoarded by a few artists and fellow journalists, and the ever-diminishing fraternity of readers of the Independent newspaper (where we were colleagues for many years).
Technology and myth
2 April 2012
Klimowski and Schejbal give graphic life to Stanislaw Lem’s robots
Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006) is usually considered an author of science fiction, but though his stories have the appropriate apparatus – spaceships, alien life-forms, robots – in mood and structure they are closer to fairy tale, myth or dream, writes Robert Hanks.
Type Tuesday: Iron curtain Vegas
28 February 2012
Ilona Karwińska shoots the lions and mermaids of Polish Cold War Neon
In the mind’s eye, the Eastern Europe of the cold war is painted with a grey wash, enlivened by occasional splashes of beige, writes Robert Hanks.