Feature
Comics for damned intellectuals
It is ten years since Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman impetuously founded Raw Books and Graphics. Since then, Raw, the couple’s alternative comic strip magazine, has provided an outlet for talented unknowns, given new significance to the term ‘graphic novel’, almost single-handedly reinvented one of America’s most popular indigenous artforms – all on a shoestring budget.
Letters in the city
Eye reassesses the legacy of Edward Wright: designer, teacher, artist and “culture-carrier”
Talking pictures
The comic book speech bubble has evolved into a highly expressive form of vernacular lettering
Way out west
The work of recent Cranbrook graduate Martin Venezky indicates new directions at the accademy
From Bauhaus to font house
Architype is a new series of Modernist typefaces. Is their reissue as simple as it sounds?
If the face fits
Well dressed magazines wear tailor-made fonts. Eye talks to three of the most sought-after names
Propaganda for the pocket
Czech matchbox labels form a miniature gallery of Czechoslovakian society under communism
Books in freefall
Shinro Ohtake is a master of the artist’s book. His latest is a collaboration with Vaughan Oliver
The rules of typography according to crackpots / experts
The director of graphic design at California Institute of the Arts challenges received wisdom and offers some ‘rules’ of his own
Born modern
Painting is dead, long live the dustjacket. Alvin Lustig brought modern art into American bookshops