Victorian Illustrators

Unknown Illustrator.

Laurence Housman (1893)

John Leech

Louis Wain (1892)

Artist known as G.S. (1860's)

Bird

Wonderful photograph by Herman Leonard.

Clockwise: Billy Bauer, Eddie Safranski, Charlie Parker and Lennie Tristano.

You can hear a rare 50 years old interview:Saxophonist Paul Desmond have a conversation with Charlie Parker. Phil Schapps presents it:
CLICK (30min. Real player)

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Homage to an Unknown Artist

These are frames from Jacques Rivette's "Paris Nous Appartient" (Shot in 1957, released in 1961) I don't know who drew the pictures in the walls of "Phillip Kaufman's" (Daniel Crohem) room but I love them...They are almost fifty years old and look incredibly contemporary.

Dave McKean

Grillo and McKean in Rome in December 2004

Dave McKean gave me this book and I found with surprise, delight and great honour that he wrote a dedication to me!!...

The meeting of Bradbury and McKean is extraordinary and this book is excellent...I urge you to get it immediately at your local bookseller or through the net!

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Beirut,July 2006

This extraordinary photograph by Kevork Djansezian of Beirut being bombed appeared today in The Independent Sunday Review.

Paul Klee

Linocuts

Carlos Raquel Rivera (Puerto Rico, 1923-1999)

Two Maestros

Menchi Sábat and André Francois at the latter's studio in the early nineties

Patoruzú

Patoruzú's first issue, from November 1936

By Dante Quinterno (Bs. As. 1909-2003) "Patoruzu" was one of the most influencial magazines published in Argentina...Patoruzú was a wonderful character, an innocent and noble Patagon Indian. "Upa En Apuros" (1942), an animated Patoruzú short, remains a classic of Latin American animation. Art Babbit told me he had been an animation adviser for it.