This amazing French graphic novel—Kris Kool by Philip(pe) Caza (b. 1940)—was published in 1970 by Eric Losfeld/Le Terrain Vague. It was Caza's first graphic...
Printed on totebags and T-Shirts for Giraffage, sold on his Europe tour together with XXYYXX.
The T-shirt features a headless biker, that can be worn together...
Pages from Matt Furie's stunning wordless picture book The Night Riders (2012, McMullens)
As a frequent visitor of 50 Watts might imagine just by looking at...
Visions of space and the future in Japan in the 70s and 80s.
What you are seeing here is a selection of scans from my (somewhat endless) stash of books and...
In 1922, Harrap published The Fairy Tales of Perrault with pictures by Ireland's Illustration God Harry Clarke (1889–1931). While not as frightening as Clarke's...
A couple weeks ago I opened at random the Selected Non-Fictions of Borges to the line:In 1717, he [Swift] said to Young, the author of Night Thoughts, "I am like...
Illustrations by H. L. Stephens for Death and Burial of Poor Cock Robin, circa 1865
Thank you Martin Poynter for turning me on to this (so-called!) children's...
XCÈNTRIC | That's not entertainment
Directed by: Luis Cerveró
Produced by: CCCB
Cinematography by: Marc Gómez del Moral
Format: S 16mm
(ENG) 5 years...
Aeron at Monster Brains just featured some vintage German ad cards from the enormous collection of flickr user cigcardpix.
My eye was drawn immediately to his set...
Carl Kylberg (1878–1952) was an important and controversial figure in twentieth-century Swedish art. Though I can't find much information about him in English,...
Here are some scans from a grainy 1960s Penguin Pelican of Two Screenplays: The Blood of a Poet and The Testament of Orpheus by Jean Cocteau. I featured the above...
"And You, What Do You Seek?" [the title of the last chapter, never written]
Here's the outrageous City Lights edition of Rene Daumal's Mount Analogue. Apparently...
BATTLES | Ice cream
UK Music Video Awards 2011
Nominated to: Best cinematography in a video
Directed by: CANADA
Produced by: CANADA / Partizan
For: WARP...
I've been threatening this post since Jan.2008, continually putting it off because of the hair-raising prospect of destroying the book by scanning. It...
Selected works by Ruth Marten
In Ruth Marten's remarkable world, Pinnipeds and Quadrupeds must fight off the advances of hirsute Lotharios while foot fetishists...
"There once was a girl
named Nicole Pennsylvania Snow
who, when she was ten months old,
slept in an abstract bed
designed and decorated for her by a famous...
I feature here Heinz Valk's illustrations for a children's poem book by Helvi Jurisson (Estonia). In submitting these scans, Piia from A Lifetime of Temporary...
These illustrations come from a Czech anthology which pairs stories for children with six different Czech illustrators. Kveta Packovska's section is a little too...
This post originally appeared on July 30, 2008
Sometimes at night -- the Flea meditated on a certain occasion -- when, as now, I am up reading because of...
I spent a few hours recently digging through the Japanese blog That's Eurobeat—through all 5,443 images in fact. While the blogger has been scanning vintage...
Illustrations and comics by Pierre Ferrero (website / tumblr)
Pierre Ferrero (website / tumblr)
Pierre Ferrero is an illustrator/comic designer from France...
Swimming-Book invited nine illustrators to contribute to their printing project entitled: Postcards from places I´ve never been. I choose Yemen, therefore a Niqab...
In response to the 'Carrots for Doctors' article, the Letters to the Editor discus whether Americans should
pay doctors for their performance rather than per...
