Every artistic choice represents a struggle over the significance of information: How much information needs to be included in the picture...

Once again, this year's ComicCon brought together the world's most diverse array of pictures of large breasted barbarian women weari...

James Williamson for the Saturday Evening Post (1949) There is a gap, at least 12 tugboats wide, between what an artist can imagine and...

Last week I wrote that animated films are  corporate artwork, polished and refined by so many committees that it is often difficult to find...

Comic artist Will Elder described how he and Harvey Kurtzman made art on an assembly line: We had to bring in guys to help make [Little An...

A century ago, Howard Pyle painted this classic image of man and mermaid locked in a passionate embrace: Pyle's image is a metapho...

To finish my (rather extended) week of Gruger, here is one more original with a slightly different approach. In this ambitious compositio...

OK, so these posts spilled over into more than a week, but here are some more scans from original Gruger drawings that show his masterful dr...

In 1928, Gruger was assigned by the Saturday Evening Post to illustrate a long and tedious detective story.  Rather than draw another dozen...