Books, Design and Culture
Cartoonist Chris Ware is interviewed by Canadian journalist Jeet Heer in the latest issue of The Paris Review as part of the magazine’s ongoing ‘The Art of Comics’ series. You can read a short excerpt online:
1 CommentIt was the Peanuts collections in my grandfather’s basement office that really stayed with me through childhood and into college. Charlie Brown, Linus, Snoopy, and Lucy all felt like real people to me… I’ve said it many times before, but Charles Schulz is the only writer I’ve continually been reading since I was a kid. And I know I’m not alone. He touched millions of people and introduced empathy to comics, an important step in their transition from a mass medium to an artistic and literary one.
We’re big fans of Luke Pearson and his ‘Hildafolk’ graphic novels in our house. In this video for publisher Nobrow Press he talks about drawing the books, and the most recent volume in the series, Hilda and the Black Hound:
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Grant Snider‘s latest illustration for the New York Times Book Review accompanied John Sutherland’s review of The Novel: A Biography by Michael Schmidt, last weekend.
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I didn’t see this weekend’s Guardian, but I assume Tom‘s cartoon is in reference to Olivia Laing’s article about 20th century female writers who drank, a follow-up to her excellent book The Trip to Echo Spring, which examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the lives F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver:
Comments closedFemale writers haven’t been immune to the lure of the bottle, nor to getting into the kinds of trouble – the fights and arrests, the humiliating escapades, the slow poisoning of friendships and familial relations – that have dogged their male colleagues. Jean Rhys was briefly in Holloway prison for assault; Elizabeth Bishop more than once drank eau de cologne, having exhausted the possibilities of the liquor cabinet. But are their reasons for drinking different? And how about society’s responses, particularly in the lubricated, tipsy 20th century; the golden age, if one can call it that, of alcohol and the writer?
I’ve posted Tom Gauld‘s cartoons for The Guardian pretty regularly here for the past few years (and you can read my 2011 Q & A with him here), but he’s really been on great form of late. If you still haven’t checked out his collection of cartoons, You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack, I highly recommend you do.
Working with art director Richard Bravery, illustrator Luke Pearson has created new covers for Kyril Bonfiglioli’s Charlie Mortdecai novels published by Penguin. You can read more about the process at Creative Review.
This is not Luke’s first cover for Penguin. He also provided artwork for their recent reissue of Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis (also AD’ed by Richard Bravery):
You can read my 2013 Q & A with Luke here. (And if you haven’t picked up a copy of Luke’s new Hilda book, you really should you know!)
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Dutch cartoonist and designer Joost Swarte has drawn the cover for The New Yorker‘s new Summer Fiction issue.
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