The Cartoonist

Saturday, April 10, 2004

By the way. Happy Easter everybody! Via Going Underground. 10:33:03 AM     |

Wow. The Phantom Reference Guide. Worldwide cover galleries. Dailies. History. Lee Falk biography. Everything. 9:48:44 AM     |

Housekeeping. Archives are updated. My resume/cv is now fully linked to work examples. Blogs: Typographica / Werbung mit kleinem Budget / Scrubbles (of course) / Idle Type / London Leben. 9:05:36 AM     |

Friday, April 9, 2004

Crystal Palace. The Great Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations, 1851. Fantastic. 10:24:35 AM     |

Thursday, April 8, 2004

Just one more thing... The ultimate Colombo website. Via linkfilter. 1:21:55 PM     |

Droids. The R2-D2 Builders Club. 7:36:44 AM     |

Monsters. Monster Kid is an online Monster Magazine. Issue 4 comes with a tribute to MAD artist Jack Davis. Fab. 7:23:59 AM     |

Wednesday, April 7, 2004

He's back at last. Pee-Wee Herman, an exclusive interview. Via Scripting News. Mhm. Wonder what Gary Glitter's doing these days ... ? 8:48:41 PM     |

Stuck. In the Crimson Room. Via Coudal. 8:12:55 PM     |

Oh, my Goodness Me! This is insane. Check out Horst's German translation of the London Tube Map. I love it. Obviously, you need to have a pretty good command of German to find this funny. 2:50:49 PM     |

Stuff. Squirrel stuffing for beginners. Via things, who posted a link to the gargoyles gallery on the same site. 9:33:15 AM     |

Maria. A fantastic (Flash) website about Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Another one (non-Flash) is here. Don't forget the Metropolis Walkthrough - visit the city of the future of the past. And Maria comes as a nightlight (hey, I've got that one!) or as a statue. 9:04:20 AM     |

Tuesday, April 6, 2004

Flying Saucers are Real. Check out the Russian Aviation Concern EKIP and their amazing flying vehicle. Via linkfilter, where someone called Metreiya posted a link to this article; and via Mark. 8:54:57 PM     |

Hand Paintings. Fabulous, just fabulous. Hands. Via the even more fabulous koewi.log. ... ancient hand imprints from around the world, including Australia, France, Borneo, South & North America, and examples of present day use of the hand symbol in modern society. 7:38:45 PM     |

Easter. Not sure what to do over the holidays, apart from searching for eggs? Check out Blaugustine, for example. And all the other blogs in my navigation bar on the right. They're all under the heading 'Blogs'. Where else. Stupid. Bunny Drawing comes straight from my sketchbooks. 5:46:06 PM     |

More Advertising. I know, I've blogged them before, but Lürzer's Archive ist still the best ad-related publication out there. And their archive just grows and grows... ... the world's biggest online archive for outstanding advertising. 5:23:46 PM     |

PMS. What's your Pantone birthday colour? Via linkfilter. 5:03:53 PM     |

Deep in the Heart of Texas. Fellow art director Bill Ramsey (no, not THAT Bill Ramsey!) blogs from a trailer in Texas. 4:55:04 PM     |

Here we go again. Larry Dempsey's Comic Book Inking Survey. Articles, tutorials and techniques - this is a fantastic website, and I mean it. Oh, and Larry - the picture on the left is MINE! :-) As you can see, Larry and I are friends again. 4:42:41 PM     |

Cambridge, UK. Having been to Cambridge yesterday, I'd like to point your attention to Derek Langley's wonderful black and white Cambridge Photos. Photo: Copyright by Derek Langley. 8:17:42 AM     |

Hypertext. This is a very strange website. Start here, at The Prisoner. Or use the main entrance and work your way through. Weird. 8:02:20 AM     |

Monday, April 5, 2004

Busy. I'm really busy today. No time for blogging. 5:08:03 PM     |

Sunday, April 4, 2004

Housekeeping. I've added a few more spreads to the toys page. Larry Dempsey of the Comic Book Inking Survey asked me to remove my entry about him and his website. Apparently all the images there are heavily copyrighted and you can't even use tiny parts of them as a quote. I'll update the archives next weekend. 3:14:02 PM     |

Thumbing it. The website of the Crumb family, maintained by his son Jesse. Everybody now order some of my bishop T-Shirts, so I can order some Robert Crumb stuff. Quick. 9:24:39 AM     |

Collecting the Seven. A Lotus and Caterham Super7 Model Collection. 9:15:34 AM     |

Good old Advertising. Billboards of the past. Fab. Via Mark. 8:02:02 AM     |