Lynd Ward's 1929 book, God's Man,  came out at the wrong time and place.  At a time when full color reproductions on glossy pages in...

Done with Chat GPT in 2 minutes Freud famously claimed that the human race has suffered three great humiliations: The discovery by Copernicu...

"See what forest has arisen from the rot."  -- Susan Barba The Roman Colosseum was designed for the most brutal entertainments.  A...

 In 1966, The Cartoonist Cookbook published a drawing and recipe from each of 45 popular comic strip artists.   The book reminds us about th...

Harold von Schmidt's illustrations for  Death Comes for the Archbishop  were greatly admired when they first appeared in 1927.  Von Schm...

 I previously posted a series of life drawings by illustrator Daniel Schwartz.   In addition to pencil drawings, Schwartz regularly painted ...