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“She had big brown eyes, long eyelashes, and a light brown mane and tail. It may not seem possible but I saw a shy smile on her lips. She tried to make believe that she didn’t notice me.”
At BOMB, an illustrated short story about a man falling in love with a horse, by artist Myron Kaufman. The story, Horse Scents, and its author, are introduced by filmmaker Charlie Kaufman, Myron Kaufman’s son.
...more“I love the tingling pullover of night sounds and forest sounds and the bite of cold breeze and distant cars and stereos. Sometimes I close my eyes and sway my arms into patterns to move with the sensations of the strong bitpieces banging about in my temples.”
At The Paris Review, Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina writes the latest entry of the excellent “Windows on the World” series.
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Tom Gauld is an illustrator, cartoonist, and publisher. His finished pieces range from animated advertisements to book illustrations, as well as the weekly comic strips he produces for the Guardian. Whether he’s drawing a campaign for one of the UK’s largest drug stores or illustrating a book of monsters, Tom’s drawing style is intimate and concise, reflective of an artistic process that uses technology without relying on it.
In a special visual edition of the Generation Gap column, renowned Rumpus illustrator Jason Novak and I team up to bring you a tale on the very edge of natural history, a story about haunted 18th-century illustrator of bug and bird, Eleazar Albin.
A touching memorial to a British TV artist.
As it so happens, the reason we haven’t found any evidence of life may be our own dang fault.
And as long as we’re linking to New Scientist: Pfizer is giving free Viagra to the unemployed.
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