Lyonel Feininger, at last
Okay, finally: here are some samples of this painter’s work.
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Another Hopper Zippy.
Zippy Hopper
Today’s Zippy is a thing of beauty. The source: Edward Hopper’s Excursion into Philosophy.
Drawing cloth and clothing
Today’s Zippy is all about cloth and clothing and the work of the “fine artist.” Bill Griffith is of course an artist and cartoonist both.
A philosophy of art
“Art is the tangled mess of everything we experience but cannot express in any other way”: in today’s Nancy, a philosophy of art.
A Jerry Craft Zoom
What I learned.
Las Meninas y Nancy y Sluggo
Like it says.
Velázquez and Tootsie Rolls
Ernie Bushmiller’s favorite artist and stock.
“About something”
Today’s Zippy: Zippy, Claude Funston, Griffy, a counterman, and Edward Hopper.
Guernica wear
In today’s Zippy, Griffy notes that museums sell Picasso everything — mousepads, T-shirtscoffee mugs. “What’s next?” he wonders. “Guernica bedsheets and party dresses??” I wouldn’t have believed it. But you can find a Guernica skirt, complete with Picasso signatures along the waistband, front and back, at Etsy.
Patrick McDonnell’s paintings
Patrick McDonnell, creator of the comic strip Mutts, has a show of his paintings. It looks to me as if he’s been paying attention to Joe Brainard. And perhaps John Ashbery.
Zippy Nighthawks
Zippy, Claude Funston, Griffy, and a naïf in a baseball cap.
マンホール蓋
Today’s Zippy takes us to Japan, where manhole covers are things of beauty.
Sluggo goes to a museum
I wonder if five might be the requisite number for “some paintings.”
Review: Bill Griffith’s Nobody’s Fool
Bill Griffith’s graphic biography of Schlitzie is a work of scholarly imagination, working with the facts of Schlitzie’s life to create an affectionate portrait of a remarkable human being.
Ink, nibs, and Zip-a-Tone
“One by one, all th’ art supplies of my youth are disappearing!”
積ん読, Berlin
2004, 2009, 2018: it’s time to read Jason Lutes’s Berlin.
Wall art
“This crumbling, beer-splotched wall in the back of a sports bar on East 44th Street is one of New York’s more neglected cultural treasures.”
Hopperesque
Nancy, looking like someone in an Edward Hopper painting.
Another Henry
The Henry world seems to know only one modern sculptor: Henry. Moore, that is.
Connecticut and comic-strips
Cullen Murphy writes about life in Fairfield County, Connecticut, once home to countless cartoonists, comic-strip creators, and illustrators.
Dante, Beatrice, and Nancy
Gustave Doré and Ernie Bushmiller, with help from the alpha tool and me.
Two Henrys
The comics character and the sculptor.
More “some rocks”
From the British Library.
John Ashbery, New Collages
George Herriman meets Giorgione.
Review: Bill Griffith’s Invisible Ink
We are born with the dead, trailing clouds, or dragging chains, of familial inheritance.
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Another Pluto comic.
Foxtrot and representation
“The joke reminds me of Alain’s 1955 New Yorker cartoon of an Egyptian life class: there too the idea of codes or conventions of representation gets turned on its head, with artists depicting reality as it really is.”
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum
With glimpses of a Sunday installment of Ernie Bushmiller’s Nancy.
“Art by cell phone”
An Oscar’s Day cartoon.