One of the joys of writing the   biography of illustrator Austin Briggs  was getting to know and interview his son, Austin Briggs Jr.,  a re...

I really like this whisper of a drawing by illustrator Henry McCarter (1866-1942).   To convey the enormity of the sky and the prairie, McCa...

 Artist Robert Crumb stumbled into the perfect sweet spot. If he'd been born a few years earlier, he would've been censored, jailed ...

Legendary  animator Richard Williams chased his masterpiece,  The Thief and The Cobbler ,   t he way Captain Ahab chased Moby Dick.  "T...

My current column for The Saturday Evening Post is about Robert Fawcett , the outspoken illustrator who didn't hesitate to offend clien...

Time puts handcuffs on us all.  Sometimes that's a good thing, sometimes bad.  But for certain artists, time creates a special ch...