Art
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Paper Trumpets #19: What To Do In an Emergency
These three collages were inspired by a 1988 book called Reader’s Digest Action Guide: What To Do in an Emergency.
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At the Museum
I have seldom visited a museum when I didn’t return home with a feeling I had not had when I departed.
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The New York Comics and Picture-Story Symposium: Jonah Kinigstein on The Emperor’s New Clothes
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Tuesday nights 7-9 p.m. EST in New York City.
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The Rumpus Interview with Peter Mendelsund
Writer, designer, and thinker Peter Mendelsund talks about book design, the tangled process of reading and perception, and his two new books, Cover and What We See When We Read.
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The Rumpus Interview with Tomi Ungerer
Writer and illustrator Tomi Ungerer discusses his exile in Ireland, being a target of censorship, and his work’s recent resurgence of popularity in the US.
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Strange Brews
As the associate art director at Knopf, Chip Kidd’s the man when it comes to book covers. Over at the New Yorker, Ronald Kelts looks at Kidd’s latest project, Haruki Murakami’s The Strange Library: Kidd designs books by James Ellroy,…
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Paper Birds
Clearing those pages plain, I’d make time fall away and distance shorten impossibly, fold upon fold, until the page was no longer a record of our histories but an origami swan.
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The Last Book I Loved: Pen & Ink
I was so very tired of being judged and dismissed. The more others pressed their expectations upon me, the more I turned to tattooing to protest.
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Paper Trumpets #15: Puffy Has Something
The images and text on this collage are from an old Christmas book called Baby’s First Christmas, a short picture book published in 1983. I took the story text (about 100 words) and re-arranged it into a sort of dada…
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Down There
In light of Plush, Marilyn Minter’s new book of pubic hair photography, Vulture looks back on the history of the female bush in Western art. Like the women who owned them, pubes through the ages were nearly invisible: Of course…
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The New York Comics and Picture Story Symposium: Pure Vision Arts and the Outsider Artist
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Tuesday nights 7-9 p.m. EST in New York City.
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The Comic Sans Typewriter
Artist Jess England has created a Comic Sans typewriter, dubbed the Sincerity Machine. England explains the genesis of the project on his website: As part of my ongoing thesis of questioning how we create, consume, store (and fetishize) media, it’s…