Artists are most creative when they have to explain a missed deadline or a mistake in their artwork. This honorable tradition of excuses goe...

In 1748, Thomas Gray stood alone at dusk in the crumbling remains of a small cemetery in the English countryside. He thought about the gener...

The meanest illustrator who ever lived was surely James Montgomery Flagg, who was always quick with an unkind remark. Flagg's autobiogra...

When I was younger (and dumber) I didn't pay much attention to illustrations of cars.  Sure, the illustrators had great skill, but I vie...

The world offers unlimited numbers of cool things to draw. Yet, artists seem to have special affection for drawing folds in fabric. Folds do...

Recently, a column in Editor & Publisher magazine proclaimed that the comic strip For Better or Worse (above) is "the best comic in...

Alex Toth argued that art should be stripped of all gimmicks and pretension: Simplicity is a great god. Truth. Throw out all the junk. There...

Why would any artist choose to work in the medium of the comic strip? The pictures are squeezed into tiny boxes where they compete for space...