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Treasured Rumpus illustrator Jason Novak illustrates the secret lives of web journalists over on the Paris Review‘s blog.
Bloggers, you might want to shield your eyes. It hits a little close to home.
...moreAt The Morning News, check out head Rumpus illustrator Jason Novak and Mike Duncan’s “She Nukes Me, She Nukes Me Not” ironically comical visual guide to the history of the US relationship with North Korea.
It’s definitely worth the read, if only for Novak’s amazing interpretation of North Korea’s uranium enrichment program.
...moreThe next Letter in the Mail, going out next Friday, is from Jason Novak!
As head illustrator for the Rumpus, Jason has created many of the site’s most memorable and beloved images, including the illustrations for Chris Stedman’s essay “Sympathy for the Devil,” which Chris liked so much he actually had them tattooed on his body!
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When you’re just a kid, you don’t realize how big the world is outside of you.
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The next Letter in the Mail, going out this Friday, is from artist and head Rumpus illustrator Jason Novak.
Jason brings countless Rumpus essays–including today’s OG Dad–to visual life. You can peruse his own illustrated stories right here.
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We celebrate today with artist Jason Novak’s tale of wooly hippos, a philanthropic toymaker, and holiday joy.
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As the election approaches, artist Jason Novak and his daughter bring us illustrations of all the US presidents.
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The New Yorker links to artist Jason Novak‘s illustrated explanation of the origins of letters in the alphabet.
We love you back!
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With the help of the Egyptians, Sumerians, and Phonecians, Jason Novak illustrates what characters in the alphabet originally represented:
...moreOver at the Bay Citizen, head Rumpus illustrator Jason Novak takes us to Oakland’s Rockridge BART station, where a group of local sword fighters — members of The Society for Creative Anachronism — meet to duel every Thursday.
Check out Novak’s illustration here.
...moreRumpus head illustrator Jason Novak has another cool panorama over at The Paris Review. Titled “The Iliad, Improved,” Novak puts his own spin on the Greek epic:
“I’d originally intended to treat the story without embellishment but just couldn’t allow poor Ajax to fall on his own sword at the end.
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Artist Jason Novak opens up about some of the demons that he’s been carrying around for years:
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Artist Jason Novak composes an illustrated diary on his Tumblr.
Don’t miss “Diary Excerpt,” June 3, 2012. After the jump:
...moreAt the Paris Review, Rumpus artist Jason Novak has created a ten-foot tall panel illustration of Sigrid Unset’s Gunnar’s Daughter, a novel with “the great dark and bizarre appeal of Icelandic legend recycled for an Edwardian audience ready to be shocked.”
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Artist and Rumpus contributor Jason Novak has a brand-new panel drawing at The Paris Review. This time, Novak illustrates Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener.”
Rumpus contributor extraordinaire Jason Novak shares an ambitious illustration of George Eliot’s Middlemarch over at the Paris Review Daily.
Rumpus contributor Jason Novak brings his illustrated story “Fedoras and Nightmare Prophesies at Noir City” to The Bay Citizen.
“This year marks the tenth anniversary of Noir City, San Francisco’s film festival dedicated to the moody film genre with deep roots in our foggy city.
...moreA Poets and Writers conversation that is one part sportswriter (Bethlehem Shoals) and one part poet (Anselm Berrigan), with an accompanying illustration by our very own Jason Novak. It’s somewhere between talking-on-the-phone-to-catch-up and an interview, which makes it all the more intriguing.
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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.
