On Tuesday a commenter suggested that Gruger "paints with a pencil." Here is a good example of that effect: Illustration for t...

In 1928,  F.R. Gruger was so popular that the Saturday Evening Post published a cartoon by another artist about ways "Gruger could guar...

Nobody talks much today about Frederic Rodrigo Gruger (1871-1953), but years ago, Time magazine proclaimed Gruger "the dean of U.S....

Cynodont 250 million years ago, before death negotiated its current truce with life, death nearly wiped out all life on earth in a fit ...

 "To live is to war with trolls"  --Henrik Ibsen Legendary graphic designer Milton Glaser invented the famous "I Love New...

In 1810 the great painter Francisco Goya was commissioned to paint a portrait of King Joseph Bonaparte. Goya didn't like King Joseph, ...

Eddie Bauer catalog cover, 1982 The career of famed illustrator Mark English can be divided into three phases. His first job was pic...

Everyone knows the story of how two Cleveland boys, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, created the character of Superman and, short of money, si...

Franklin McMahon, the last of the great illustrator-reporters, died last week at age 90. McMahon worked in a bygone era when newspapers a...

Artists who can't draw have become emboldened by the excuse that traditional drawing skills are less relevant today.  The focus of art ...