From the Root’s fascinating study of How to Draw a Black Man: “During Obama’s meteoric rise from state senate to the threshold of the oval office, political cartoonists have had to grapple not just with a fresh face to draw, but a new race to signify. Photographs of Obama’s angular, open visage—half white, half black—have graced [...]
February 28, 2006 – 12:02 pm
I was browsing bestadsontv.com, which, along with TV ads, also has a good collection of print ads, and I found this full-page print ad for The Drawing Book, which is a company of illustrators who work for advertising companies, and which has been using the tagline, “Illustrations get noticed” for several years. I gotta tell [...]
February 26, 2006 – 11:13 pm
You don’t know me. This is my first year here. We might have a friend in common though. Do you remember Carl? He was the man around here for a quite a while. A public safety officer. He died a couple of years back. Just a really interesting guy. I met him last summer while [...]
February 24, 2006 – 02:12 pm
In “Them Damn Pictures,” a political cartoonist, Doug Marlette (who is also responsible for Kudzu and who has come under fire for his own Mohammed cartoon) admonishes the West about its response to the Cartoon War.
I’m still not sure where I come down on this, but I lean more toward the concept of free [...]
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