Review: Illustration
Prolific polymath
Pretty Pictures (Thames & Hudson, £42, $75) covers the astonishing body of work that…
Freestyling text and image
As a second-year undergraduate student at Reading in the early 1990s, I was shown the…
Unpacked baggage
Is any contemporary illustrator a household name today? Not in the same way that…
Violently opposed to war
Looking for images of ‘peace’ on the internet yields predictable and clichéd results…
Cute cultural tourism
Hello Kitty and Pokemon seem to have taken over the world in recent decades. But…
Studies in black, brown and beige
Handsome may be the word to describe this book, conceived by German illustrator…
Man of letters
For much of the past decade, illustrator Tom Gauld has been a regular contributor to…
Losing its flavour
The ultimate in cheesy designer excess, packaged in a giant trading card wrapper, the…
Density, magic, genius and loss
Chris Ware’s comic strip was originally published in Chicago’s alternative New City paper…
The cultured sensibility of Cipe Pineles
Cipe Pineles? Say it Sea-pea Pin-ell-ess; she’s credited with being America’s first…