Words and Pictures

Mad Painter's Scandalous Escapades Revealed in Court Docs! Those interested in misbehaving geniuses mustn't miss this article on the...

The Mystery of the Disney Orgy This post is really a comment about a post on Joakim Gunnarson's blog, Sekvenkonst . My comment was ...

Evaporated Liquid A long, long, time ago in a world far, far away, it was 1992. I was working with a small TV animation studio. Word came th...

The Paint is Red Years ago a friend gave me a monograph about one of the State painters of Mao Tse Tung's China. Over time the poorly-p...

Comics Go Legit, Sorta In an earlier post I presented some comic-strip-style ads that found their way into the New York Art Director's ...

Spiritual Love Goes Physical In the early 1980s I found this exceedingly odd comic-style pamphlet on the ground at a street fair. I will rea...

Nature's Wonder Book When looking after my mother in Washington, I had a few spare moments to browse an antique mart. There I found this...