Today we have another sketch by Thompson:   Here is what is NOT included in this sketch, that you might have expected to se...

I am pleased that this page from Richard Thompson's sketchbook is included in the new book . Although it isn't a finished drawing, ...

I am one of those who ranks the drawn line alongside the discovery of fire and the invention of agriculture on the list of human advances. ...

Thompson loved to write and draw about events at county fairs.     One of my very favorites was his blue ribbon prize for "Worst ...

Thompson's piece, Neighborhood of Mystery , is a good example of the talents that combine to make his work so special: On the one ...

If you hear a fanfare of celestial trumpets this week, it might just be for the release of the new book, The Art of Richard Thompson ...

  Jim Silke has written about the style of illustration "derisively called the 'big head school of illustration,' ...

Fifty years ago, comic artist Stan Drake drew an unscrupulous director trying to seduce a young actress. We know the director is up to no go...

 American illustration used to be dominated by a sharp, stylish realism. Roswell Keller However,  that style was gradually replaced b...