Cartoonist Chester Brown stood in front of a room full of people at Comic-Con and described his sex with prostitutes.  As he went through ...

 I have previously written about the work of Nathan Fowkes , a talented artist for DreamWorks Animation, a fine landscape artist, and an ar...

I just returned from Comic-Con in San Diego.  This week I will write about five of the artists I encountered there. One of the best thing...

Ever since civilization invented modesty, the fig leaf has created special challenges for artists. One of Denis Zilber's typically ...

Thomas Hart Benton was a serious painter whose allegorical pictures of slow country life showed skill and intellect: Thomas Hart Benton....

Illustrator Henry Raleigh had a thing for shoulders. Other artists loved to draw hands.  Al Dorne , Steve Ditko and Mort Drucker al...

Artistic confidence is a valuable asset when it is warranted, but a terrible liability when not. Unfortunately, the nature of confidence...

Once upon a time, the world's largest media companies bragged in full page ads about their upcoming illustrations: From the back cov...

Last week the Society of Illustrators opened a wonderful exhibition of pulp magazine covers from the 1930s and 40s.  The show includes nea...