Chris J. Anderson’s concept art for Robot Rising.
nevver: Charles Bukowski covers, Emiliano Ponzi
chirp: I designed and illustrated a piece on escalator etiquette for The Bold Italic. This is not the first time drawn poo for them, but it is the first time I’ve drawn boogers!
(Also, see if you can spot the self-caricature I snuck in there.)
(Editor’s note: Helen is awesome at illustrator.)
“in quiet rooms young girls are writing poetry” by David Rathman
“In quiet rooms young girls are writing poetry” is an artist’s book that reproduces David Rathman’s recent war-themed watercolors. The paintings depict tanks, planes, warships and helicopters. As with Rathman’s cowboy and car pieces, the imagery is paired with hand-written texts and legends.
Using “language in a paradoxical way to confront the imagery,” Rathman avoids a head-on collision with the “heaviness” of his subject. According to the artist, “There’s a lot of indirection and evasion going on; to see these aggressive menacing subjects twisting with uncertainty struck me as humorous and—in a sideways, minor way—profound.”
Tadanori Yokoo, early 70s
