The Cartoonist

Saturday, February 14, 2004

Starry Night. Three historical star atlases, all digitised: Johann Bayer's 1603 Uranometria John Flamsteed's 1776 Atlas Céleste K. Reissig's 1829 Sozviezdiia Predstavlennyia 2:11:41 PM     |

The Face of the Moon. Wow. An Exhibit of Rare Books and Maps from the Collection of the Linda Hall Library. This is fab. 2:03:14 PM     |

Funny Valentine. Most unfortunate Valentine's Cards. 10:00:03 AM     |

Friday, February 13, 2004

This is Fabulous. Drawing from Life: Selections of Caricatures and Cartoons. Wonderful exibition. 1:36:25 PM     |

Magazines. A selection of magazine covers dating from the seventeenth century to the present. Nice. 9:29:42 AM     |

Al. The History Files: Al Capone. 9:22:29 AM     |

Hans-Ruedi again. A really, really big Giger archive. Very big. Enormous. Huge. Via Kosmonautentraum. 8:51:08 AM     |

Thursday, February 12, 2004

The Final Frontier. Russian Space exploration. 4:42:18 PM     |

New York in the 70s. Selected photos by Allan Tannenbaum. Via Ye Olde Phart. 9:31:32 AM     |

Avebury. Armin has revamped his Avebury pages with two amazing Quicktime panoramas of the stone circle. Fab. 9:25:13 AM     |

Wednesday, February 11, 2004

Dirty Socks. This might be a bit difficult to understand, but the Bishop refers to a comment (no permalinks there, it's entry 67) on Rulf Neigenfind's website. All German language, I'm afraid. Or should I say: all German? 5:39:14 PM     |

I surely must have. Blogged this before, I mean. I have not? I really need to update the archives. Urgently. And film. And the Corgi/Dinky toys pages. Good grief. All that work.Whatever, here's the Natural History Exhibit Splash Page: Natural History Books By Ten Authors. Great they are. Fab. 3:36:13 PM     |

Those Gorey Covers! He's always good for a link. But then he's always better than just that. Here are the Gorey Paperback Covers. And they're all great. Fab. Fantastic. As art editor, Gorey was responsible for the total cover package, supplying the lettering, typography and design layouts. Often other artist contributed the actual illustration: Leonard Baskin, Milton Glaser, Philippe Julian and even Andy Warhol; but Gorey then designed the finished product lending a uniform appearance to the whole line. Yeah, well - that's exactly what 'designers/art directors' usually do. That's our job. 3:03:01 PM     |

The Beat. Mark has collected lots of Beatles Links, all of them are great. FAB is the My Beatles Blog. 2:41:53 PM     |

Treasures. Tons of great Pirate stuff for your home. Via BoingBoing. 9:17:06 AM     |

Books. Silk-screened book covers of educational puppet play scripts and handbooks. 9:11:47 AM     |

Precious Posessions. An exhibit of beautiful Hebrew and Jewish manuscripts, bookplates, postcards and more. The pieces shown here are not merely artifacts; they are agents of Jewish identity that reflect human experience and progression while ensuring the perpetuation of Jewish spirit and knowledge. 9:05:53 AM     |

Tuesday, February 10, 2004

Where Cartoonists Drink. Here. 4:56:37 PM     |

Here Comes the Train. Monorails in History. Interesting. Via Schockwellenreiter, via Mosaikum, via Ultimate Insult. Enough 'via' here? 1:23:00 PM     |

Toys! Check out Hollywood Die-Cast. The car's the star. Wonderful. Thanks to Robert. 9:11:26 AM     |

Googlin'. How to conduct web searches properly. An interactive guide. Fab. 9:01:33 AM     |

Life, the Universe and Everything. Here's the Universe as we know it. Via xq. 8:56:58 AM     |

Colours. Because yesterday's entries were all black and white, we'll have some colour today. 8:45:51 AM     |

Monday, February 9, 2004

Old Berlin. German postcards. Via Michelle, who has changed her URL. Again! 1:39:46 PM     |

Drawings. By Witold Riedel, New York. Nice. Very nice indeed. 11:02:56 AM     |

Mythology. Fabulous: the Encyclopedia Mythica - an encyclopedia on mythology, folklore and legend. 10:32:55 AM     |

Cinema Bulbo. Here comes Bulbo. A series of funny little Flash movies. 10:22:43 AM     |

Everybody's talking about Mars. So here's Venus. 8:35:07 AM     |

Sunday, February 8, 2004

This is Art. Doodles, cartoons and more. Great website. Via the fabulous Jupp. 9:38:20 AM     |

And more Type. Typography and rare books. Brilliant. 9:23:57 AM     |

Hot Metal. Nice pages about the history of type. 9:16:45 AM     |

Utah. Thousands of historical photographs. 9:11:34 AM     |