Every year on this date I think back on Bernie Fuchs, a wonderful illustrator who left us too soon.  As time passes I'm even more impres...

Congratulations to The New Yorker for its compassion in supporting people with disabilities.  The art direction responsibilities of the maga...

 I've just staggered home from a preview of the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, which is scheduled to open to the publ...

  As I've written in the past , I'm a big fan of loose drawing, especially by artists who've already mastered tight, sophisticat...

July 27 is the tenth anniversary of the death of gifted cartoonist Richard Thompson.  His tragic death at age of 58 was a great loss to the ...

  “You have to wake up every morning angry.” -- Pat Oliphant Last week I wrote an appreciation of the late great Pat Oliphant (1935-2026) i...

The False Gods by George Horace Lorimer was illustrated in 1906 by a young J.C. Leyendecker.  It is not mentioned in any of the reference b...