Illustration

A Night on the Town

The streets of Vienna were awash with footsteps and cosmopolitan echos. We entered a wine store – make that a wine bar. Hoighty-Toighty. Blazers and ascots. Connoisseurs in their realm.
Blair handed me a bottle of red for five euro off the shelf. I approached the counter.
“Can you open this?” I handed the bottle to [...]


Old Man Watching Fly

Ink on paper, color with Pixelmator


bear and penguin

This is a comic about a bear and a penguin created by Jeremy Taylor.


Mr Fish on Reverend Wright

This recent Mr. Fish cartoon is from Harper’s Magazine. I assume that they granted me implicit permission to publish it on MugMud because Harper’s is a great publication and Mr. Fish is a nice guy.

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Illustration Friday: Worry

He may look worried. Though these days it’s hard to tell by phone. I know that I am worried.

artist: Jeremy Taylor
media: digital


Draw Yourself as a Teenager

Dave Valeza created a sensation with the following illustration of himself as a teenager walking alongside his current self. Illustrators have submitted hundreds of personal sketches to his blog in response. The results are intriguing and show the collective experience of teenage misfits that grow into quirky, accomplished, and confident artists.
Below is Dave’s illustration.

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Goodbye Cruel World

I wish I could recall the source of this cartoon to give credit to this clever humorist, but it escapes me…


Anatomy as Industry

In the early part of the 20th Century, Fritz Kahn created stunning illustrative metaphors of the human body as industrial mechanisms. Here is a superb example of his work.

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