Review
Glaser's genial self-portrait
I know I’m not alone when I say that Milton Glaser was the first graphic…
Iron curtain Vegas
In the mind’s eye, the Eastern Europe of the cold war is painted with a…
Boy’s Own inventions
American Heritage, a hardcover quarterly, was my favourite magazine in the 960s for its beautifully…
Stripped for action
To my knowledge, this is the first cross-media anthology of gay comic art and illustration…
Endangered species
Piet Gerards is a craftsman. You can’t fail to notice this from the moment you…
Maira to the max
The illustrative art of Maira Kalman (see Reputations, Eye 47) has a special place in…
Erotic fantasies of a proto-Goth
If you like Roland Topor, the mid-twentieth-century French Surrealist illustrator and visual commentator, you’ll love…
Penguin in pictures
The Penguin Collectors’ Society is an owners club for people who worship at the shrine…
Mighty pen
Political cartoons are rarely covered in graphic design histories. The reason may have something to…
Recalling the Vignelli experience
‘In the early 1950s,’ begins Massimo Vignelli in the first chapter of this visual monograph…