“Christ! What are patterns for?” wails the distraught young heroine of Amy Lowell’s famous poem, Patterns . Her question is hardly surpri...

"What is robbing a bank compared to founding a bank?"                                                             -- Bertolt Bre...

Here is another spot illustration by illustrator Robert Fawcett, this time a small ink drawing of his friend Austin Briggs who was giving a ...

In the 1950s, Robert Fawcett visited the instructors working at the Famous Artists School in Connecticut and talked with them...

I feel this blog performs a public service on days when I can share close ups from an original Robert Fawcett drawing.  This drawing had e...

This year's Comic-Con in San Diego was like the ancient bazaar of Constantinople teleported to the third moon of Zarbtron. There were ch...

 "Wildness can be the picture's better part, its physical delight."  -- Gordon Parks  In the 1960s, American illustration en...