https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog daily 0.75 2026-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1498940246921-NWKBZ7XE3HY3Y3GHSZKK/Screen+Shot+2017-07-01+at+3.16.48+PM.png Graphic Tales https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2020/11/25/ao31zkki0dmkg674gceldlc6wmioqx-rl8cn monthly 0.5 2026-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1616601296690-76YUGE7RBBE74UVP8GUE/philip_guston_the_studio2.jpg Graphic Tales - On Creative Traveling Companions 2026 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1617249541997-85VNBK5MLPTG9R55N139/Screen+Shot+2021-03-31+at+10.57.00+PM.png Graphic Tales - On Creative Traveling Companions 2026 Francis Criss, Untitled (Cityscape), 1938. A precisionist who has received more attention in recent years. Captures a grand-but-crappy urban experience. Criss also illustrated, but less persuasively. (Unlike say N.C. Wyeth, whose paintings were mostly dusty, backward-looking things in contrast to his much more vital illustrations.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1616624991734-0ABTN2PL70QCJBTIW8SX/IMG_1933.jpg Graphic Tales - On Creative Traveling Companions 2026 Title Screen, Winky Dink and You, a television show aired on CBS from 1953 to 1957. The first interactive electronic experience, the show required children to draw with crayons on a plastic sheet placed over the screen to help Winky Dink conduct his adventures. Hosted by Jack Barry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1616620812494-BWZ187Z8AANHXUOVH7XA/Screen+Shot+2021-03-24+at+4.17.59+PM.png Graphic Tales - On Creative Traveling Companions 2026 Kayren Draper, Illustration from The Sunshine School, Ginn and Company, 1928. Detail under magnification. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1616602221450-KBDPI39LV32B2MVJMS3Z/Screen+Shot+2021-03-24+at+11.09.55+AM.png Graphic Tales - On Creative Traveling Companions 2026 Stuart Davis, Pochade. 1956-58 I go back to the Stuart Davis well every so often, and I am never disappointed. Someday I want to write an essay and maybe edit a collection on his influence. A major figure for a wide variety of folks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1606330677251-O3M5PQ8FMU4IM6AD6QY8/Rey_Constellation.jpg Graphic Tales - On Creative Traveling Companions 2026 H. A. Rey, detail shot from Find the Constellations, 1954. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1617255039806-4C0I1XOHJ1LVL261PNIU/Rooftops_right.jpg Graphic Tales - On Creative Traveling Companions 2026 D.B. Dowd, Paris Rooftops, from Spartan Holiday No. 3 French Lesson, Spartan Holiday Books, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1617253627680-LCHO0JLNZ9YYRD6WK5HW/1K_Knowledge_sm.jpg Graphic Tales - On Creative Traveling Companions 2026 D.B. Dowd, K is for Knowledge spread from A is for Autocrat: A Trumpian Alphabet, Illustrated. Spartan Holiday Books, 2020. Graphic design by Scott Gericke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1616600272559-RQTP749U8LY37MFGBV39/S_Beckhoff.jpg Graphic Tales - On Creative Traveling Companions 2026 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1616534749289-DZ3EV2OR4W9WS5Q9TGPT/IMG_3378.jpg Graphic Tales - On Creative Traveling Companions 2026 Sifo wooden puzzle, circa 1950. I collect these things. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1616625400552-RLWH2WCS7EYDGT0FRWAR/Mustardville_print_3_cherry_street_crop.jpg Graphic Tales - On Creative Traveling Companions 2026 DB Dowd, View from Cherry Street, Plate 2 from Cry Mustardville: Reports from the Recent Calamity and Commentary Thereupon, Charles Bevan Press. 1995. Linoleum reduction cut printed in two colors. The first major project I produced in which the writing, illustration, design, and printing were all conceived as an integrated whole (although text and image appeared on separate pages, so not truly integrated—thoughtfully juxtaposed and sequenced, but distinct. It would take longer for me to see word and image as truly fluid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1616621774247-YQWBW0C6KX8GX0JJG7BD/IMG_2185.jpg Graphic Tales - On Creative Traveling Companions 2026 James Barrett & Sons, five textile printing blocks from a set of nine used to print a paisley pattern on silk. Dartford, England. 1880-1910. On display at the Winterthur Museum and Garden, New Castle County, Delaware. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1616624548508-176RU2FIUI4OS07ZAI3A/IMG_2190.jpg Graphic Tales - On Creative Traveling Companions 2026 Block printed textile, 19th century. Winterthur Museum and Garden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1606331472706-0NERJXNOX8OS5GH1013W/Screen+Shot+2020-11-25+at+1.10.38+PM.png Graphic Tales - On Creative Traveling Companions 2026 DB Dowd, Only to wanderers can come, hand lettering Spartan Holiday No. 2, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1617227596606-LP8ZPKPBOEU9ZZXAGOLM/Matter_Wheel_Advertisement.JPG Graphic Tales - On Creative Traveling Companions 2026 Herbert Matter, advertising design for Knoll Associates. This is from the Herbert Matter Archive in the Modern Graphic History Library at Washington University, all of which pertains to his work for Knoll. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1617227256509-8NSRGTSS4Z0KD3BQOGS1/Tums_ad_1953.jpg Graphic Tales - On Creative Traveling Companions 2026 Illustrator uncredited, agency unknown, undersea troubles in TUMS ad, Cleveland Plain Dealer, December 27, 1953. I enjoy the transparent characters—how the contour lines of the figures are complemented and undercut by the negative shapes of light on dunes or whatever those suggestive forms are meant to convey. (We’re underwater is clear enough.) The octopus and the sword/sawfish are up to no good. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1606332920248-SDOE1IIO73OZ52SRLBXR/IMG_4262.jpg Graphic Tales - On Creative Traveling Companions 2026 Ben Shahn, Typewriter. 1956. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2026/1/13/on-reading-and-looking monthly 0.5 2026-01-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/6bfb4fb9-b19c-4c5f-ade7-732dd233ea02/Diamond+Sutra.jpg Graphic Tales - On Reading and Looking - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/f779f020-0cc5-4079-b3c2-ee8e55d5dcab/Screenshot+2026-01-17+at+9.41.20+AM.png Graphic Tales - On Reading and Looking - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/2a7effdd-af02-48c4-b6d6-d3ea952a3f05/Screenshot+2026-01-17+at+9.38.41+AM.png Graphic Tales - On Reading and Looking - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2025/4/2/drawing-in-the-field-immediacy-process-and-planning monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/464d9f16-f9fb-4d82-be28-d14c8037dcb8/Screenshot+2025-04-02+at+10.57.43+AM.png Graphic Tales - Drawing in the Field: Immediacy, Process, and Planning - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2025/2/8/2025-errata-for-stick-figures-drawing-as-a-human-practice monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/c7e80854-6d1f-42cb-ac27-97338bc73aa9/Screenshot+2025-02-08+at+10.24.57+PM.png Graphic Tales - 2025 Errata for Stick Figures: the Optical Mode - Make it stand out Fremont Petroglyph, Bighorn Sheep, Thompson Wash, southern Utah, circa 1000 CE, and Automobile Damage Schematic, St. Louis Tag Company, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/2ab75dac-1ef4-4f26-afdb-5f2cc9bf81f1/1024px-Ad_Parnassum_%28originaler%2C_gefasster_Holzrahmen%29%2C_Paul_Klee_%281932%29.jpg Graphic Tales - 2025 Errata for Stick Figures: the Optical Mode - Make it stand out Paul Klee, Ad Parnassum, 1932. This image is not in Stick Figures, but it demonstrates how the glyphic and optical modes can coexist in the same work. I first saw it in the flesh in an exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1987. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/86913a84-ddf9-45e6-b334-c477d79f716a/Screenshot+2025-02-04+at+12.43.28+PM.png Graphic Tales - 2025 Errata for Stick Figures: the Optical Mode - Make it stand out On the Plain of Kasuga, woodcut illustration for Coming of Age, the first episode in the tenth century classic Tales of Ise, published by Suminokura Soan (1608-10). The first illustrated book printed in Japan. Hon'ami Koetsu’s calligraphy was used as a source for the moveable kana type, part of a short-lived experiment. Xylography prevailed after 1640. For our purposes, the work can be located within the glyphic mode and graphic sensibility. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/90a81428-4145-4efc-8f98-ee9c2ab09808/Screenshot+2025-02-08+at+10.36.24+PM.png Graphic Tales - 2025 Errata for Stick Figures: the Optical Mode - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2023/2/9/super-bowl-sunday-visual-journalism monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/89781b3b-41ed-47b5-b50b-a2200b8a5434/football_trio_sm.jpg Graphic Tales - Super Bowl Sunday 2025: Visual Journalism - Make it stand out D.B. Dowd, Sketchbook drawing from high school football game, 2008. Pencil. The notes with the illustrations for this post include thoughts about how and when things were made. The different approaches employed may be of use to you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/f044f6ea-d68b-418a-8a91-d6f55caf4580/Screen+Shot+2023-02-10+at+12.22.50+AM.png Graphic Tales - Super Bowl Sunday 2025: Visual Journalism - Make it stand out D.B. Dowd, Massillon versus St. Mary-St. Vincent, 2014. Massillon, Ohio, 2014-2018. I “saw” this picture before I worked on it. There is a tiny little marker maquette somewhere of the idea, a doodle about orange, green, and black. I built the whole thing from photo reference well after the fact, but made the underlying pencil while the experience was still fresh. Appears in Spartan Holiday No. 3. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/759520bf-79df-4e5b-b81a-0b09e95fd1f1/after_the_game_right_K_flat.jpg Graphic Tales - Super Bowl Sunday 2025: Visual Journalism - Make it stand out D.B. Dowd, After the game. Pencil 2008, ink much later. I make brush drawings over pencils very often. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/fb86aaf9-5bc7-476f-aefb-998dfb19ce48/dbdowd_normandy_sm.jpg Graphic Tales - Super Bowl Sunday 2025: Visual Journalism - Make it stand out D.B. Dowd, Halftime Talk, Clayton versus Normandy, 2008. A pencil that got turned into a goauche painting in the sketchbook, pretty soon after making the pencil. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/8e419c0f-deef-4e02-b188-4c643d30c5cf/SH3_cover.png Graphic Tales - Super Bowl Sunday 2025: Visual Journalism - Make it stand out D.B. Dowd, cover, Spartan Holiday No. 3: French Lesson, 2019. A collaboration with graphic designer Scott Gericke. The eleven-year old pencil drawing shown at the top of this post was inked and used for this project. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2020/1/28/jumpin-jucika monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1580275987311-I7MPXK6W5Z10UDZIRSHW/Screen+Shot+2020-01-28+at+9.19.34+PM.png Graphic Tales - Jumpin' Jucika! Pál Pusztai, Jucika. Undated. An awkward incident, inventively solved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1580275906336-M2K4BNT6IJ79QIEZKCA2/Screen+Shot+2020-01-28+at+9.20.27+PM.png Graphic Tales - Jumpin' Jucika! Pál Pusztai, Jucika. Undated. Boss in a foul mood as you walk in late? Pretend you’ve been here all morning! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1580275834578-PQV2NDQEGLDMPN72DC40/Screen+Shot+2020-01-28+at+9.20.55+PM.png Graphic Tales - Jumpin' Jucika! Pál Pusztai, Jucika. Undated. Party runs too long? Flirt with your clueless guest, to get him booted https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1580336796526-2N0FEDD8JOXNOT8F2BQB/Screen+Shot+2020-01-28+at+9.23.58+PM.png Graphic Tales - Jumpin' Jucika! Pál Pusztai, Jucika. Undated. Boyfriend makes a move on the maid? Dismiss the lout, not the help! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1580337171899-AYXY02SEIZYFKY4K0GAY/Screen+Shot+2020-01-28+at+9.27.39+PM.png Graphic Tales - Jumpin' Jucika! Pál Pusztai, Jucika. Undated. It’s cold in here! Let’s go the tropics… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1580338632493-MPQSQSZP2PP2YM27RGAO/Screen+Shot+2020-01-28+at+9.22.05+PM.png Graphic Tales - Jumpin' Jucika! Pál Pusztai, Jucika. Undated. Lose a stocking, gain an urn. (And vice versa!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1580337274726-0XACK2S2KMY2YLO4H0YL/Screen+Shot+2020-01-28+at+9.30.41+PM.png Graphic Tales - Jumpin' Jucika! Pál Pusztai, Jucika. Undated. Here we go full-on pin up to solve a rather flimsy plot problem. My favorite aspect of this strip is the photo-collage. Welcome to Budapest! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1580337393809-YZTDZKZV6VZUWJF7S218/Screen+Shot+2020-01-28+at+9.28.21+PM.png Graphic Tales - Jumpin' Jucika! Pál Pusztai, Jucika. Undated. From snow bunny to sunbathing surf-boarder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1580337536621-DX9QQGMSDMKP5013P7I1/Screen+Shot+2020-01-28+at+9.27.02+PM.png Graphic Tales - Jumpin' Jucika! Pál Pusztai, Jucika. Undated. Out of style? There’s a fix for that! (Nice break in the frame between 1 and 2 to compress time.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1580338516646-SD21USKS885G9HICGNON/Screen+Shot+2020-01-28+at+9.25.40+PM.png Graphic Tales - Jumpin' Jucika! Pál Pusztai, Jucika. Undated. Okay, one more. It’s cold today! This seems fitting. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/30/an-illustrated-affair monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404142734968-RWNWMPBAW5XXXEC2TRBM/dbdowd_wedding_painted_chuppah_det.png Graphic Tales - An Illustrated Affair Dowd, Meyer-Hirshon Wedding Ceremony, Gouache treatment of sketchbook drawing. Detail of bridesmaids. Gouache. 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404142498213-A6XDQ97M8DR7NNTLVW4X/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - An Illustrated Affair Dowd, Snips & Tape + Photos in Kitchen. Sketchbook drawing. 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404142523448-CTSULCNCK7YEWH7Z2J0W/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - An Illustrated Affair Dowd, Photographer Coaching. Sketchbook drawing. 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404142553705-NEE9NCS9GVTLR8F6UXLT/dbdowd_wedding_stepladder_v3.jpg Graphic Tales - An Illustrated Affair Dowd, Stout Photographer on Portable Stair. Sketchbook drawing. 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404142625528-PFB7HTAJ8FKJUSA4907J/dbdowd_wedding_bridesmaids_v3.jpg Graphic Tales - An Illustrated Affair Dowd, Bridesmaids & Robin. Sketchbook drawing. 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404142637110-FFHTJA5MWM761L0MCO0K/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - An Illustrated Affair Dowd, Mrs. Hirshon. Sketchbook drawing. 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404142674012-2ZXYJKCYN815PU5QDWY9/dbdowd_wedding_ketubah_spread_v3.jpg Graphic Tales - An Illustrated Affair Dowd, The Ketubah. Sketchbook drawing. 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404142706248-7IFXHZN559AKNSHSVC7R/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - An Illustrated Affair Dowd, Setting. Sketchbook drawing. 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404142753579-QQGYXONR524W0AZW9XGC/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - An Illustrated Affair Dowd, Meyer-Hirshon Wedding Ceremony. Sketchbook drawing. 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404142475871-6127OMA390MJ8VL1KTPX/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - An Illustrated Affair Dowd, Meyer-Hirshon Wedding Ceremony. Gouache treatment of sketchbook drawing. 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404142831001-LGM647NEWQSE03JY5ART/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - An Illustrated Affair D.B. Dowd, Little Girls Dancing to Satin Doll, Meyer-Hirshon Wedding Reception. Sketchbook drawing. 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404142403016-7A3PMUU5C922PWQKTUXP/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - An Illustrated Affair D.B. Dowd, Detail of Saxophonist at Meyer-Hirshon Wedding Reception. Sketchbook drawing. 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404142856783-TCLCD9E87Y9D9IRXYJP9/dbdowd_wedding_conversation_spread_v3.jpg Graphic Tales - An Illustrated Affair D.B. Dowd, Women and Rabbi at Meyer-Hirshon Wedding Reception. Sketchbook drawing. 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404142887326-4MI0PEUCWJ0HC3GPH8CH/dbdowd_wedding_bridetrio_v3.jpg Graphic Tales - An Illustrated Affair D.B. Dowd, Robin with Mom and Dad before the Meyer-Hirshon Wedding. Sketchbook drawing. 2012. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2019/2/16/composing-spreads-visual-essay monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1550327507734-HFSE9MO14JYT4TH03O1J/Spread+Plans.jpg Graphic Tales - Composing Spreads Redux Quickie thumbnails, showing plans for spreads. (Sharpie plus digital color) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1550326284543-3EUOTZNDK700YKHTN9ZP/weaver-sprtrain2.jpg Graphic Tales - Composing Spreads Redux Robert Weaver, Spring Training, 1962. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1550328149460-D4ROPR2OAMCJLOSTX5NX/Spread+Plan+D.jpg Graphic Tales - Composing Spreads Redux Spread Plan D (alternate version) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1550329516143-XQOV87QQYFTRQGEDV3XX/Spread+Plan+D+neg.jpg Graphic Tales - Composing Spreads Redux Spread Plan D (alternate version) Negative shape! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1550324810275-WNT7CHEYIX1Q4VL1M6NI/parker-grandprix1.jpg Graphic Tales - Composing Spreads Redux Al Parker, 22nd Monaco Grand Prix, Sports Illustrated, May 11, 1964. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1550325140610-SO5IFHC4R6DBHFJD779S/weaver-sptrain3.jpg Graphic Tales - Composing Spreads Redux Robert Weaver, Spring Training: Fresh Starts and Old Hopes, Sports Illustrated, March 5, 1962. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1550328191970-5U6EDLICF2XE6Z9ISIWA/Spread+Plan+G.jpg Graphic Tales - Composing Spreads Redux Spread Plan G https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1550325943982-PBKHUS3INCAEI708UCRO/weaver-sptrain4.jpg Graphic Tales - Composing Spreads Redux Robert Weaver, Spring Training, 1962. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2023/2/5/a-return-to-figure-drawing monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/cd201ab3-356b-4298-86d7-58a527f6580c/Beckhoff_Elks_crop_sm.jpg Graphic Tales - A Return to Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Harry Beckhoff, cover illustration for Elks Magazine, April 1950. One of my very favorite illustrators. Magnificent two-color work for Collier’s in the late 30s and early 40s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/f7b3c307-ab2a-44ae-bac4-034342c5bac6/Screen+Shot+2023-02-05+at+5.01.45+PM.png Graphic Tales - A Return to Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Illustrator uncredited, dramatis personae fiction illustration, The Illustrated Drum Song of the 1000 Year Colt, 1905. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/7ddf1f5b-45cd-4ddd-90e1-0bd70900dd47/SF_701_WU_drawingclassSM.jpg Graphic Tales - A Return to Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Drawing Session from plaster casts, Washington University, 1905. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/b957199b-1956-4665-bbc8-e0be1d1ff5e9/Screen+Shot+2023-02-05+at+4.43.02+PM.png Graphic Tales - A Return to Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Shunsai Toshimasa, Great Naval Maneuvers in Taketoyo Bay, 1890. A coming-out party for the modern, mechanized Japanese Imperial Navy. (Arrangement of figures highly formal) Intriguing example of theatrical handling of figures combined with grand, cinematic distances. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/cc6e98a1-71aa-43da-8920-0ca000669361/Screen+Shot+2023-02-05+at+4.50.23+PM.png Graphic Tales - A Return to Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Illustrator uncredited, Spring Fashions illustrations showing Butterick Pattern options in The Delineator, January 1918. (These are effectively ads, which suggests why the pictures are uncredited. Other illustrations in the magazine [owned by Butterick] are signed.) I included this as a reminder that clothing creates shape. Hands and feet are shrunk and delivered with abbreviation, keeping the viewer focused on the garment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/de281b74-93c3-4dcb-9894-1e9d872fb4a0/parker_57a_expression.jpg Graphic Tales - A Return to Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Al Parker, Expression of Love, fiction illustration (cropped) circa 1957 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/0f69acf7-1c82-4cf3-a107-48496a115cf0/NewspaperRock2.jpg Graphic Tales - A Return to Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Newspaper Rock, petroglyph site near the entrance to the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park. Pecked into the desert varnish of Wingate sandstone by Fremont culture artists, followed by historic Ute and Anasazi Native American tribes. Photograph by D.B. Dowd, December 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/8a1a3163-2ea3-4d07-98cf-d766638423c5/Screen+Shot+2023-02-05+at+4.46.40+PM.png Graphic Tales - A Return to Figure Drawing - Make it stand out Benjamin West, The Death of General Wolfe, 1770. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2022/12/30/from-tiger-to-lion-mark-steven-dowd-1965-2022-1 monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/d64d772b-1425-4d43-8cf7-8dad705ee1c8/MarkDowd.jpg Graphic Tales - From Tiger to Lion: Mark Steven Dowd (1965-2022) - Make it stand out Mark S. Dowd on July 9, 2021. Macatawa, Michigan, celebrating Lori Dowd’s birthday. A grand time. He was in fine, fine form. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/2e545cef-3670-4aaa-84d8-f20186ec248c/ISAIAH_resized_5x7_export.rgb.jpg Graphic Tales - From Tiger to Lion: Mark Steven Dowd (1965-2022) - Make it stand out D.B. Dowd, Every Valley, 2021. Last year’s holiday card, made from Mark’s condo, and sent out just before the end of the year. The passage from Isaiah seemed correct somehow, and the lettering was soothing to build. I drew the crude bird on a piece of copier paper and shot it with an iPhone. All very provisional, which matched the time. As if on a raft somewhere, phenomena sloshing at the edges. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/70dc9a29-3f10-4b7f-9d42-0546ab8e82eb/Obie.jpg Graphic Tales - From Tiger to Lion: Mark Steven Dowd (1965-2022) - Make it stand out The tiger in question. Obie the Tiger, the Massillon High School Football mascot. Mark was a second generation Massillon Tiger (graduated 1983) after our father David (1947) and his two brothers Jack (1951) and Jim (1956) Our elder brother David (1975) was also a Tiger. O stands for orange and B for black; Obie became the mascot in 1926. I do not know whom to credit for the drawing, or the date of its composition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/96a8c2d1-541e-4e42-b271-61fe3ed3f3f1/Screen+Shot+2023-01-03+at+10.15.32+PM.png Graphic Tales - From Tiger to Lion: Mark Steven Dowd (1965-2022) - Make it stand out D.B. Dowd, Jan’s Bouquet, illustration for memorial program, May 25, 2021. My mother-in-law Jan Lambright sent a floral arrangement to our home in St. Louis after we returned following Mark’s death. I didn’t know what to do with myself for days, so as the bouquet began to wither I pencilled and inked it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/94c32bc4-7dad-45db-aa0d-9dedf057723c/Screen+Shot+2023-01-03+at+10.15.47+PM.png Graphic Tales - From Tiger to Lion: Mark Steven Dowd (1965-2022) - Make it stand out Graphic design by Scott Gericke, my longtime collaborator. Photograph of Mark and Maxwell, also from that charmed weekend in Michigan. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2022/12/30/from-tiger-to-lion-mark-steven-dowd-1965-2022 monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/fcfcfe40-12f6-49d6-9c45-ff2c77bfaf66/New+Years+Eve+2022+Setup.jpg Graphic Tales - December 31: Auld Lang Syne with Brother Mark - Make it stand out Auld Lang Syne for Mark Steven Dowd. A Little Remembrance on what has become His Night. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2022/10/26/remembering-noah-macmillan monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/45fdbf5d-693b-4607-9c81-07f776bb9a26/Screen+Shot+2022-10-31+at+12.05.35+AM.png Graphic Tales - Remembering Noah MacMillan - Make it stand out The late Noah MacMillan in front of his Underground City at the City Museum in St. Louis. 2016. Photograph by RJ Hartbeck. More photography of this project here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/7dcb8239-4cd4-4bad-ba9e-3e17749a6f88/Screen+Shot+2022-10-31+at+12.04.10+AM.png Graphic Tales - Remembering Noah MacMillan - Make it stand out Noah MacMillan, St. George and the Covid Dragon, 2020. Noah wrote of this image, “A tribute to the healthcare workers that put themselves in harm's way to keep us safe.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/df359913-b442-42e8-9aca-19f6720b00c7/Screen+Shot+2022-10-31+at+12.10.39+AM.png Graphic Tales - Remembering Noah MacMillan - Make it stand out Noah MacMillan, Airbnb Disaster, 2019. In Diablo Magazine. “For an article about a small town's reaction to a horrific shooting that took place during an out of control party at an Airbnb home.” I chose this piece because it shows an atmospheric side of Noah’s work that complements his frequent use of strong edges and contrasts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/2b45525e-a327-48ca-a670-d5599b67619b/Screen+Shot+2022-10-26+at+11.52.42+AM.png Graphic Tales - Remembering Noah MacMillan - Make it stand out Noah MacMillan, illustration for U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team stamp design for the United States Postal Service, designed by Antonio Alcalá. 2022. An October 25 article in USA Today reported that “[the] stamp issuance celebrates women’s soccer in the United States,” the USPS said. “…Millions of girls and women throughout the country participate in this fast-paced, competitive sport. The graphic stamp artwork depicts a female soccer player in action, walloping a ball with a side volley.” Walloping is a verb that Noah would have appreciated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/90cac58e-50ae-4959-a896-2dcb102bdf78/Screen+Shot+2022-10-30+at+11.44.18+PM.png Graphic Tales - Remembering Noah MacMillan - Make it stand out D.B. Dowd and Noah MacMillan with StoryTrack. Animation still. Lehigh Valley Logistics Center Case Study Teaser, Rockefeller Group, screened at NAIOP conference, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/eb26b94d-2b51-4f18-b01d-dd0a967a102e/Screen+Shot+2022-10-31+at+12.01.28+AM.png Graphic Tales - Remembering Noah MacMillan - Make it stand out D.B. Dowd and Noah MacMillan with StoryTrack. Animation still. 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I wrote about these images in a catalogue essay for Enduring Ideals: Roosevelt, Rockwell, and the Four Freedoms (Abbeville Press, 2018.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1611113623488-6LGQK1XX7Q3PE8ZK1BFQ/Screen+Shot+2021-01-19+at+10.32.54+PM.png Graphic Tales - Propaganda and the Truth A preposterous slogan—”Stop the Steal”—worked for a segment of the population living in a sealed bubble of information. On Planet Earth, more than 60 court proceedings—many presided over by federal judges appointed by Donald Trump—set aside the president’s claims, finding them without merit. “The Steal” was a cynical fantasy, designed to stir up a mob. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1611113033898-HP47Q9P252A29LG1YB5U/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Propaganda and the Truth Lucas Cranach, woodcut illustrations Passional Christ und Antichrist 1521. This wildly successful pamphlet worked on a simple scheme. At left, a scene from the the life of Jesus: here, overturning the tables of the money changers. On the right, the pope selling indulgences. The texts below amplify the pictures. Cranach’s illustrations served Luther’s argument, and the package hit home. But only because the underlying truth of the early modern Church was laid bare in the process. The Catholic Church had grown corrupt. The propaganda worked largely because it was true. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1611116144347-G6XZ3SDQLH9GDJ05DF1F/Autocrat_Intro2_A_Crop.jpg Graphic Tales - Propaganda and the Truth D.B. Dowd, Pages 2-3 from A is for Autocrat: A Trumpian Alphabet, Illustrated. Spartan Holiday Books, 2020. Graphic design by Scott Gericke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1611116676292-QOERG0NHCKLDICHR163A/Autocrat_NO_Crop.jpg Graphic Tales - Propaganda and the Truth D.B. Dowd, A is for Autocrat: A Trumpian Alphabet, Illustrated. Spartan Holiday Books, 2020. Graphic design by Scott Gericke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1611117245897-R4TEX6E64WBCMGFZN5BM/Screen+Shot+2021-01-19+at+11.32.43+PM.png Graphic Tales - Propaganda and the Truth A is for Autocrat YouTube channel. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2020/10/26/autocrats-freedoms-elections monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1603770391501-H85X7SE3SPS1AB11M3EG/Turkey+November+is+Coming+Autocrat.png Graphic Tales - Autocrats & Freedoms D.B. Dowd, back cover illustration detail, A is for Autocrat, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1603771437573-4UBQBPN34VTFETIC3J3L/Dowd_8_Rockwell_Want_det.png Graphic Tales - Autocrats & Freedoms Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Want, 1943. Detail. Because nobody can even see the whole painting at this point; the parodies and repetition have rendered the image invisible, even when in plain sight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1603771854110-LBE534YDU7YP5UV812DW/Cox_Munseys_02_1898_det.jpg Graphic Tales - Autocrats & Freedoms Kenyon Cox, cover illustration, McClure’s Magazine, February 1898. Detail of Columbia, in Phyrgian cap crowning an American sailor with a laurel wreath. Corny as they are, something about these images feels current all of a sudden—we’re bucking each other up for battle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1603771061497-G8KQUI9GXUFV6ZYH8083/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Autocrats & Freedoms https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1603771616027-1V1XAR8HL24F71VYBUHM/Screen+Shot+2020-10-26+at+10.22.10+PM.png Graphic Tales - Autocrats & Freedoms https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1603772423542-XZWK75V7KPHODFSRNALU/Autocrat_H_Crop.jpg Graphic Tales - Autocrats & Freedoms D.B. Dowd, H is for Hubris spread, A is for Autocrat, 2020. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2020/1020/figures monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1508537343499-Y4OUKXPRCB0DHUQG4N99/gillespie_pictorialreview_000122_smaller.jpg Graphic Tales - 100 Drawings, Late Pandemic Style Jessie Gillespie, As Bad as She's Painted? detail of illustration for Pictorial Review, January 1922. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1603214057007-BJVLH5WM10P5D5ZRVVDO/SF_174_Brunetti_det.jpg Graphic Tales - 100 Drawings, Late Pandemic Style Ivan Brunetti, detail, Dressing Down, New Yorker cover illustration, November 1, 2010. Wonder woman and Edgar Allen Poe, delivered with minimal information but unmistakable clarity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1603214435888-DC8WDQ63PS0T3DBJO6M3/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - 100 Drawings, Late Pandemic Style Ethel Hays, detail, We Moderns—Angles, Angles Everywhere, Sunday comic supplement page, 1928. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404143816612-0X1DF2K2VCEGBU9FZP7B/SJS_Petroglyph_ninemile.png Graphic Tales - 100 Drawings, Late Pandemic Style Petroglyph Group, Fremont culture, Nine Mile Canyon, Utah. Circa 700 to 1300 CE. Photo by Stan Strembicki. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404143868518-WW1ZZ6MD9N2M9G32G2RD/lego_cop.png Graphic Tales - 100 Drawings, Late Pandemic Style A Lego policeman, reminding us the range is broader than we imagine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1541047034760-RTFOYYB2X1PO3EL81GCN/DS+Martin_jam_session+copy-2.jpg Graphic Tales - 100 Drawings, Late Pandemic Style David Stone Martin, Jam Session, illustration for record jacket, Mercury Records, circa 1960. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404144013288-VFXLHBCGMXYUEH2VDCQF/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - 100 Drawings, Late Pandemic Style Mickey may not be people, strictly speaking, but his gigantic hands and feet are relevant for cartoon personages. From Steamboat Willie, 1928. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404143921613-IW2HQOQP37BKTBWQ93XD/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - 100 Drawings, Late Pandemic Style Or people among trees. Milton Caniff, the Steve Canyon Sunday strip published on October 14, 1947. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1541040863577-F6BEH35VFVL60XN9XJJM/Raymond_Kirby1_det.jpg Graphic Tales - 100 Drawings, Late Pandemic Style Kismet, a femme fatale in Alex Raymond’s Rip Kirby, the daily strip for February 1, 1955. (Color field added.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404144045827-F5OGII38ELZ4ROFEVRV0/Robert_O_Reid_Colliers_101439.png Graphic Tales - 100 Drawings, Late Pandemic Style In a weekend languor–ooh, maybe another time–a Robert O. Reid Collier's cover girl, from October 14, 1939. Good luck everybody! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1603216860356-RQCJ1N9YZ5P5BJLCLY5R/inked+kneeling+football+players_crop.jpg Graphic Tales - 100 Drawings, Late Pandemic Style D.B. Dowd, Injury Time Out. 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1603215031370-8EBGSO51X7HX84JG37TR/phillips_LIFE_091411+copy.jpg Graphic Tales - 100 Drawings, Late Pandemic Style Coles Phillips, Summer Fiction, Life Magazine cover illustration, September 14, 1911. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1541044684635-TWOMWKINRBMX9JFOARFQ/hip_hop_deejay_resolved2.jpg Graphic Tales - 100 Drawings, Late Pandemic Style D.B. Dowd, Dee Jay Dude, Music Series 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1603215931634-BFGKRUIKAYWHPC07ECE5/772049.jpg Graphic Tales - 100 Drawings, Late Pandemic Style W. W. Denslow, Scarecrow, 1904. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1541045360104-3HDPK487ZT62YEOQCSSZ/tumblr_n9c4zrdI2t1rrnekqo1_1280.jpg Graphic Tales - 100 Drawings, Late Pandemic Style Clara Elsene Peck, cover illustration Theatre Magazine, March 1922. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1508610237212-XDCTNMLYCUR2RH0RR8HP/condak03_trim.jpg Graphic Tales - 100 Drawings, Late Pandemic Style Cliff Condak, New NBA Season special feature, Sports Illustrated, October 28, 1963 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1508610882551-6J3RE2E2X9X7W3XM4S2P/Jetsons-Elroy-Sister-Dog-Coloring-Page.jpg Graphic Tales - 100 Drawings, Late Pandemic Style Ed Benedict (?) Judy Jetson, Astro and Elroy Jetson, Character Designs for the Jetsons, Hanna-Barbera Productions,, circa 1960. The source drawing seems to have been scanned and live-traced, a regrettable choice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1603214697013-OOJLRFSZNYR3ZDA1FS1S/Bert_and_Ernie_Screenshot_600_by_400.jpg Graphic Tales - 100 Drawings, Late Pandemic Style Bert and Ernie, Children’s Television Workshop, 1969. They were part of pilot episode for Sesame Street that year, and became a staple of the show. Performed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1541040209430-2PXBBQBVUG0FRWEEHX84/Beckhoff_Elks_crop.jpg Graphic Tales - 100 Drawings, Late Pandemic Style Harry Beckhoff, detail, cover Illustration, The Elks Magazine, April 1950. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404143782699-RBQU02RH8PIRHS759H76/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - 100 Drawings, Late Pandemic Style Harry Beckhoff, "You must take this thing out of here," MIndy says, "especially as calfs are seldom housebroke." Interior fiction illustration for Collier's, June 12, 1941. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404143832284-B6GB4KZVQNDGSNGMN5H7/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - 100 Drawings, Late Pandemic Style From Harlan Tarbell's Chalk Talk Stunts, Denison and Company, 1926. Recollections of the war in France inform these pictures, which are among the least objectionable in the entire book. (Another time.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1634752756584-6FFO4LMLKMCG2TM18EG2/Screen+Shot+2021-10-20+at+12.55.35+PM.png Graphic Tales - 100 Drawings, Late Pandemic Style - Make it stand out Nina Chanel Abney, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404143849900-DFF7FFRIFFASODYYIS5L/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - 100 Drawings, Late Pandemic Style Some different French figures, also rendered in line, printed several hundred years earlier: Death makes new friends, 15th or 16th century. The skeleton with the dark patch on his belly isn't a skeleton, but a dried-out partially decayed corpse, probably washed from an overcrowded (five or six deep) Parisian grave during a storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404143901927-ZAW5PV6YGL11TQCKGP2M/Klimt.png Graphic Tales - 100 Drawings, Late Pandemic Style Gustav Klimt, Adele Bloch-Bauer I. 1907. Fluctuating between forest and trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404143951952-M4U6FQ3Q2NUWTU1XAH82/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - 100 Drawings, Late Pandemic Style Richard Scarry, in Cars and Trucks, a Golden Book. 1951. A detail of a bus-boarding process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404143988042-TZKLA9PTLOF1IYK0XNUW/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - 100 Drawings, Late Pandemic Style Elegance is possible, too. From Gerlach's Allegories, 1900. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1603215438781-P1VQLLODYX60S4S89O8J/Screen+Shot+2020-10-20+at+12.36.38+PM.png Graphic Tales - 100 Drawings, Late Pandemic Style Ernie Bushmiller, detail, Nancy comic strip, June 3, 1947. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2020/7/5/incoming monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1594228471351-VCF38R335LYC4BZ0T9AW/A_autocrat1.jpg Graphic Tales - Incoming: Project X! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1593976642421-C9TRM09XH7LHPFZJJS6U/IMG_3515.jpg Graphic Tales - Incoming: Project X! D.B. Dowd, project in development, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1593967059296-O290BUKS755FN1BERIUE/still13.jpg Graphic Tales - Incoming: Project X! D.B. Dowd, still from Scenes from Starkdale, Ohio, 2006. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1593976339826-UXNFVYWJAZKEIIXSY56X/IMG-3572+copy.PNG Graphic Tales - Incoming: Project X! D.B. Dowd, project in development, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1593976571148-UB08IVC54ZA8HF4LND3T/IMG_3486.jpg Graphic Tales - Incoming: Project X! D.B. Dowd, project in development, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1595509791872-0O4N4M8DPY5C2C5PEFJ6/Mustardville_print_3_cherry_street.jpg Graphic Tales - Incoming: Project X! D.B. Dowd, linoleum reduction print, Cry Mustardville, 1995. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1595509915958-YDFEYYSMJWBW33B8RX7C/Screen+Shot+2014-11-06+at+12.36.59+PM.png Graphic Tales - Incoming: Project X! D.B. Dowd, opening pages, Sam the Dog Revisited No. 2, 2014; original feature St. Louis Post Dispatch, 1997-99. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2020/6/17/quaker-oats-cries-uncle-on-aunt-jemima monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1592458678573-XH9Z01QQ5H01TV8TIT27/Disney_Wyeth_AuntJemima_lowres.jpg Graphic Tales - Quaker Oats Cries Uncle on Aunt Jemima The Story of Aunt Jemima, yesterday, today, and now! At Disneyland. Paper placemat, Aunt Jemima’s Kitchen, Disneyland, Anaheim, California. Circa 1960. N.C. Wyeth illustrations recreated in simplified form, uncredited. Drawing of the restaurant by Felix Palm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1592461757778-L6YK7RD21EHO6YT3WSEW/DOWD+Fig+8+Benton_COW_det.jpg Graphic Tales - Quaker Oats Cries Uncle on Aunt Jemima Harry Stacy Benton, Detail of Frank White as Rastus in Our Platform: Cream of Wheat, 1907 advertisement. Dowd Modern Graphic History Library, Washington University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1592460562695-7GV1EEXFH9NUYE9VBTMW/Disney_Wyeth_AuntJemima_det1.jpg Graphic Tales - Quaker Oats Cries Uncle on Aunt Jemima Synopses of NC Wyeth ads from 1920, printed on circa 1960 disposable paper placemat for Aunt Jemima’s Kitchen, Disneyland. (In operation from 1955 to 1970.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1592460607545-NXBPIWDOJGKSZ3T5RLRA/Disney_Wyeth_AuntJemima_det2.jpg Graphic Tales - Quaker Oats Cries Uncle on Aunt Jemima Synopses of NC Wyeth ads from 1920. There is something truly obnoxious in the way the two grain-trading swells come jauntily ashore, the old Confederate with the Van Dyck beard between them. How grand! What a time was had back in the day at Higbee’s Landing! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1592460657745-40B0LSUBCUS1XK02N65E/Disney_Wyeth_AuntJemima_det3.jpg Graphic Tales - Quaker Oats Cries Uncle on Aunt Jemima Synopses of NC Wyeth ads from 1920. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1592462826451-6DWE09JZNDKSMVSU7YGE/Disney_Wyeth_AuntJemima_det6.jpg Graphic Tales - Quaker Oats Cries Uncle on Aunt Jemima https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1592460722291-SHNUP4Z2HLLC9F613LWB/Frost_sm.jpg Graphic Tales - Quaker Oats Cries Uncle on Aunt Jemima A.B. Frost, Aunt Jemima, 1890. Dowd Modern Graphic History Library, Washington University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1592461033980-815FBD6IGG8J3ZUW42JW/Wyeth_GrayMorn_Jemimia_crop+on+box.jpg Graphic Tales - Quaker Oats Cries Uncle on Aunt Jemima A.B. Frost, Aunt Jemima branding bug, Gray Morn advertisement (but standard on all such ads) 1920. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1592464608968-8DOD4OWETZEMZBBWTUGX/Wyeth003.jpg Graphic Tales - Quaker Oats Cries Uncle on Aunt Jemima N.C. Wyeth, Cream of Wheat advertisement, 1907. This ad recalls NCW’s Bucking Bronco Saturday Evening Post cover that launched his career in 1903. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1592462453532-75JQYYUQGGDHVJEVXXGG/Wyeth028a.jpg Graphic Tales - Quaker Oats Cries Uncle on Aunt Jemima N.C. Wyeth, Coca-Cola at the North Pole(?), advertisement, National Geographic back cover, August 1936. Some of Wyeth’s ad work is quite memorable. Most of it is pretty workaday or worse, creepingly nativist. This is a relatively late totally innocuous project that would have been purely for the fee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1592463649150-BDFDEVPN8MNIZ6FMZ0IL/Wyeth011_sm.jpg Graphic Tales - Quaker Oats Cries Uncle on Aunt Jemima N.C. Wyeth, Custer’s Last Stand, from Nature in the Raw is Seldom Mild campaign. Advertisement for Lucky Strike Cigarettes, circa 1932. A different strand of American cultural chauvinism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1592462165040-YYROEQ9JG8T59PTU70ZQ/Wyeth_GrayMorn_Jemimia_crop.jpg Graphic Tales - Quaker Oats Cries Uncle on Aunt Jemima N. C. Wyeth. “Gray Morn,” advertisement for Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix, as reproduced in Woman’s Home Companion, December 1920. This is the two-color version of the ad. There was a four-color and black-and-white. No matter the palette, a ludicrous cultural narrative. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1592463177275-E23SZI18N4F8P19SX3TY/Wooden_Shoe_Signage.jpg Graphic Tales - Quaker Oats Cries Uncle on Aunt Jemima Wooden Shoe Entertainment Complex, Holland, Michigan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1592464925488-2YUBRN7GYQVGA9OVTLTR/Disney_Wyeth_AuntJemima_det9.jpg Graphic Tales - Quaker Oats Cries Uncle on Aunt Jemima Haddon Sundblom, Aunt Jemima, refurbished identity from 1937. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2020/4/14/constructing-people-drawing-figures monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1586889382753-Q9RKIMBVLZ6A2GBC72H4/Screen+Shot+2020-04-13+at+5.52.51+PM.png Graphic Tales - Constructing People, Drawing Figures: Round-Up Harry Beckhoff, Slowly the clawlike blades closed over the cigarettes, gently lifted it off the table, and pulled it through a hole in the ceiling. Story illustration for Collier’s Weekly, January 29, 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1586888941622-9CDSTWZNCUC9AXEVILLL/IMG_2916.jpg Graphic Tales - Constructing People, Drawing Figures: Round-Up Pál Pusztai, Jucika. Undated. A dispute over a dress, solved Solomonically. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1586889909055-C9LFUEVANX7U4RF5RIVS/Chwast_ink_children_pp21_1959.jpg Graphic Tales - Constructing People, Drawing Figures: Round-Up Seymour Chwast, illustration in Pushpin #21, 1959. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1586890184971-J47GTMRVAB88535JCVFG/Screen+Shot+2020-04-14+at+1.46.58+PM.png Graphic Tales - Constructing People, Drawing Figures: Round-Up Illustrator uncredited, detail, Walls and Floors, section divider illustration, Better Homes & Gardens Handyman's Book, Meredith Corporation, 1957. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1586890588789-6IXATWSSJPMFQ20ZVX06/Beebe_Snoot_pg134%26135.jpg Graphic Tales - Constructing People, Drawing Figures: Round-Up Rea Irvin, They’re all kings and dukes, fiction illustration for Snoot if You Must, by Lucius Beebe, 1943. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2020/3/27/on-illustrators-and-cartoonists-self-identification monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1585342534812-TXB1RGGA4JGIXNRZRXWV/Screen+Shot+2020-03-23+at+1.52.36+PM.png Graphic Tales - On Illustrators and Cartoonists: Self-Identification Split-screen: Maxfield Parrish, detail, Alarums and Excursions, 1899, collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, and Ivan Brunetti, Dressing Down, cover illustration for The New Yorker, November 1, 2010. See comparative discussion below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1585343152145-NEHJYG139A8KOF5ZFEWM/Screen+Shot+2020-03-26+at+2.05.40+PM.png Graphic Tales - On Illustrators and Cartoonists: Self-Identification https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1585347982328-LI0DTDXBL1S3JZEOJETI/phillips02_sm.jpg Graphic Tales - On Illustrators and Cartoonists: Self-Identification Coles Phillips, advertisement, Holeproof Hosiery, circa 1915. An illustration, made by an illustrator. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1585348480020-49KOHOT3AYRGMCKOY76E/Gould1_TRACY_DET.jpg Graphic Tales - On Illustrators and Cartoonists: Self-Identification Chester Gould, two panels from a Dick Tracy daily strip, November 10, 1965. A cartoon, drawn by a cartoonist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1585348829849-E9HWC1ZGNJLKY2WI7WYG/LIFE_ILLO_goodlife_elks_fishing_beckhoff_SMALLER.jpg Graphic Tales - On Illustrators and Cartoonists: Self-Identification Harry Beckhoff, Elks Magazine cover illustration, April 1950. Normatively speaking, this is an illustration, made by a person who identified as an illustrator. But the characterizations, as often in Beckhoff, look cartooned, and the narrative is freestanding, in its way—although all magazine covers “illustrate” their mastheads. More the case for the Saturday Evening Post than Elks magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1585348850665-OWNPQV14FS9J7Q2UPNUB/LIFE_ILLO_goodlife_elks_fishing_beckhoff_DET.jpg Graphic Tales - On Illustrators and Cartoonists: Self-Identification Harry Beckhoff, detail, Elks Magazine cover illustration. If the character suggest cartoon drawing, they are also accurately proportioned and specifically costumed. All told, the illustration sensibility wins out, but not by much. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1585341546193-OO87T08BKXW82YXXN435/Screen+Shot+2020-03-27+at+3.37.20+PM.png Graphic Tales - On Illustrators and Cartoonists: Self-Identification Charles Schultz, Peanuts. Snoopy’s doghouse is a generalized, abstract structure, not a particular one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1585406082068-LFS5LL70CRBXJTWFMD3Q/SF_174_Brunetti_det.jpg Graphic Tales - On Illustrators and Cartoonists: Self-Identification A detail of the Brunetti. Wonder Woman and Edgar Allen Poe show up at the costume party. Bobbleheads and insect appendages, supplemented by precise expression (Poe looks strung out) and well chose props (quoth the raven, “Nevermore,” and WW’s tiara + whip). https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2017/2/4/the-visual-correspondent monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1486347221682-EPTFTWHYC45GHPODCIDB/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - The Visual Correspondent D.B. Dowd, Two Views of the Pizza Oven on West Tuscarawrus, Canton, Ohio. 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1486346435222-HETQZ00NQ6GNCXPG8RAH/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - The Visual Correspondent Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid in the World. This serialized graphic novel tells a story in flashback. Repetition and a lovely page design communicate the passage of time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1486342950152-E3A2M5Q90J7PA7PUQJKW/Lynn_Pauley_editorial17.jpg Graphic Tales - The Visual Correspondent Lynn Pauley, Bombed Murrah Building, Oklahoma City, on assignment for the New Yorker, April 1994. Unpublished. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1486345398469-JRS49I0W4FTE9ZGH8TKE/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - The Visual Correspondent Cliff Condak, Tom Hawkins Driving, 1963. Made (but unpublished) for “Big Men on the Move,” Sports Illustrated, October 28, 1963. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1486345226357-7N1FWO7GD544HGJ4HPOD/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - The Visual Correspondent William Glackens, Loading Horses on the Transports at Port Tampa, Inkwash and Chinese white, field sketch on assignment for McClure’s Magazine, 1898. This drawing is in the Library of Congress collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1486359174260-4ZSDZ050ICQ7O119EAXZ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - The Visual Correspondent Austin Briggs, Highway Billboards with Cotton Pickers, illustration for “The Fast-changing South," written by George B. Leonard, Look, November 16, 1965. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1486345912856-UBJ2F20YXW0PEJRUX561/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - The Visual Correspondent Mike HIrshon, Construction Site Drawing. 2016. An alum of the undergraduate communication design program at Washington University. He went on to get his MFA at the School of Visual Arts program started by Robert Weaver: Illustration as Visual Essay. For others in this series (one of which has just appeared in the new American Illustration annual, click here.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1580662676335-OX6N05WT9KMFBX3EB87I/Screen+Shot+2020-02-02+at+10.54.41+AM.png Graphic Tales - The Visual Correspondent Klaus von Mirbach, Town Drawing, August 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1580659534077-S8JQSAEXIMWGILA1SO0W/SF_163_Gould_PLACEHOLDER.png Graphic Tales - The Visual Correspondent J.J. Gould, news illustration of political convention, circa 1900, probably from the Philadelphia News. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1580659566170-SW6KFZV9NPVNX2A2NO48/SF_163_JJGould_Convention_Drawing_det.jpg Graphic Tales - The Visual Correspondent J.J. Gould, detail of above. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1486343020293-5JEFIGMZZL7NN1QDHC0K/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - The Visual Correspondent A. Berhaus and C. Upham, Washington, D.C.––The attack on the President’s life––Scene in the ladies’ room of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad depot––The arrest of the assassin; from sketches by our special artist’s [sic] A. Berhaus and C. Upham; Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, July 16, 1881. President James A. Garfield twists in pain, having been shot in the back. An onrushing crowd approaches from the right. Secretary of State JamesG. Blaine supports the president while turning to gesture toward the assassin, Charles Guiteau, Having lost his bowler in the fracas, we see Guiteau set upon by witnesses at left to the rear. One grabs his left arm, another the back of his coat; a third prepares to club him with a cane. Garfield died twelve weeks later, having never resumed his duties. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1486347327210-0EMP3D5EL8KOADHURMQ2/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - The Visual Correspondent Joe Deal, From the Beach Cities Series, Zuma Beach, 1978. Gelatin silver print. Photography plays an enormous role in the story of visual journalism. Deal was no journalist, but an attentive viewer of landscape. One of the photographers who came to prominence in the New Topographics movement, his work is totally relevant in such discussions. I included his work in the Kemper show in 2015. He was also my friend and onetime boss, having hired me to work at Wash U in his role as dean of the School of Fine Arts. (In 1992!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1486357249171-7TWZOZEC9EBRTK1YGT4N/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - The Visual Correspondent Robert Weaver, Spring Training Sketchbook, installation shot from Parallel Modes, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1486359003434-QBD75XPAQ0QONLRSIWEZ/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - The Visual Correspondent Robert Andrew Parker, The Private Strategy of Bethlehem Steel, cover illustration for Fortune Magazine, April 1962. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1486347003078-HDWD2OIQA0EZWIVV8J3X/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - The Visual Correspondent Wayne Thiebaud, Down Penn Street, 1978. The plasticity of the space is of particular interest. (Hat tip to Mike Hirshon for the citation.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1486388159059-F007MIV2CEGZZLPT48V0/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - The Visual Correspondent D.B. Dowd, Lulu's on Olive. 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1486349439507-IYYJEZRJ3AK1UR3KXEEM/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - The Visual Correspondent Steve Mumford, cover illustration for Harper's, October 2013. Evidence for the proposition that illustrated journalism is inching back into view–if mostly online, as opposed to print. This project is an exception. Mumford published Baghdad Journal, a book of reportage drawings he produced on location in Iraq 2003-04, with Drawn & Quarterly, in 2006. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1486345142137-27BX3SP6LN1ASUXLMOSD/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - The Visual Correspondent Steve Mumford, Guantanamo Exterior, illustration for "A Kangaroo in Obamas' Court," by Lawrence Douglas. Harper's, October 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1580662600053-367IRMRQ57AUJ3DQ5TBT/Rooftops_right_sm.jpg Graphic Tales - The Visual Correspondent D.B. Dowd, Paris Rooftops, 2017. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/11/s6wemue86ot5ohag3aajvvi6mfnigu monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402509480476-RF8E2G8OT7DHKP1RHN0E/illhouse_conner_sep_1951.jpg Graphic Tales - Tonic in the Air! Mac Conner, advertisement illustration, There's tonic in the air, for the Carrier corporation. Circa 1955. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402509155775-XHPDF01X016NTUBWB9VP/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Tonic in the Air! Conner, child bounding out of his hospital bed due the healing properties of air conditioning! Note a) closed window with tiny patch of green, and b) the excellent bucking bronco pajamas that little Chip is sporting today. I have read correspondence pertaining to this ad, which was produced by N.W. Ayer in Philadelphia, a historic ad agency. The amount of art direction devoted to making absolutely sure that the window was closed would astonish most readers. There’s a reason that advertising work then and now is lucrative: you lose your mind doing it. Conner was no exception. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402509327268-Z8N41FYHUDJLVH6H0QHD/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Tonic in the Air! Chip & his mother head home from the hospital. Note Mom's get-up: swanky hat and black gloves complementing a swell-looking dress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402509537431-APT7UJD8UJWXNYERCOKE/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Tonic in the Air! Conner, inset illustrations, Carrier ad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402509609198-YPFA720QNDCAZZJ08QT1/Screen+Shot+2014-04-14+at+5.03.05+PM.png Graphic Tales - Tonic in the Air! Are those bed frames or prison bars? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402509875257-1GA8RXB7AXUJDKEJ6ESL/Screen+Shot+2014-04-14+at+6.12.28+PM.png Graphic Tales - Tonic in the Air! Such a crisp white uniform! https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2019/10/21/midterm-writing-exercise monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1571668430537-JKF4NMAITLI9TSNE4OPG/homer_leslies_1866_iceskating+copy.jpg Graphic Tales - Midterm Writing Exercise Winslow Homer, Our National Winter Exercise—Skating. Broadsheet-sized wood engraving, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, January 13, 1866. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1571668574776-7GXVFBQ4H5O2DC3PI0EU/Gillespie_group_49cents+copy.jpg Graphic Tales - Midterm Writing Exercise Jessie Gillespie, 49 Cents, Today Only. Cartoon drawing for Life Magazine, circa 1912. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1571669354921-P4UR4BXF7M5H8SISLXOX/phillips_overland03+copy_sm.jpg Graphic Tales - Midterm Writing Exercise Coles Phillips, magazine advertisement for Overland Motorcars, 1915. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1571668678375-4KJXER8YF1QRLVCPRJ5E/leyendecker-cover.jpg Graphic Tales - Midterm Writing Exercise J.C. Leyendecker, Thanksgiving, 1628-1928. Cover illustration, Saturday Evening Post, November 24, 1928. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1571676959800-A3K9J23ZL7BF804MJ0J1/Noir03.jpeg Graphic Tales - Midterm Writing Exercise Tom Howard, Execution of Ruth Snyder, clandestine photograph made at Sing Sing Prison, January 12, 1928. Published in the New York Daily News the following day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1571668723332-9HEKG990SBMSRQMG3SZN/Gladney_Shadow_Fifth_Face_081540.png Graphic Tales - Midterm Writing Exercise Graves Gladney, The Fifth Face. Cover illustration for The Shadow, August 15, 1940. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1571679512306-N7RLMSV7BYLL5BPF2NW2/Penfield_Harpers_August_1894.png Graphic Tales - Midterm Writing Exercise Edward Penfield, poster for Harpers Monthly, August 1894. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1571668523546-GJOWMOIU59O25USTMNT8/Alice_Barber_Stephens%2C_The_Women_in_Business%2C_1897+copy.jpg Graphic Tales - Midterm Writing Exercise Alice Barber Stephens, The Woman in Business. Cover illustration, Ladies Home Journal, September 1897. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1571676362871-YLUD5T0IPMPYCE2AZJ8R/shippeng_1904_007.jpg Graphic Tales - Midterm Writing Exercise Elizabeth Shippen Green, Playing Parcheesi, March/April calendar page for The Child, a promotional calendar jointly published by ESG and Jessie Willcox Smith, 1904. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1571678302258-SZM40ODHXWTU66CM00Y4/Parrish011.jpg Graphic Tales - Midterm Writing Exercise Maxfield Parrish, The King and Queen might eat thereupon, and noblemen besides. Magazine advertisement for Jell-O, 1922. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1571678678903-SOTVDWVNQ5YFR953S9AO/Screen+Shot+2019-10-21+at+12.24.08+PM.png Graphic Tales - Midterm Writing Exercise Stuart Davis, cover illustration, The New Masses, June 1926. (The Masses folded in 1917; The New Masses was published from 1926 to 1942.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1571676727185-W761G9T4FVU8STQ6TLPB/Wyeth011.jpg Graphic Tales - Midterm Writing Exercise N.C. Wyeth, Custer’s Last Stand, Lucky Strike magazine advertisement, 1930. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/drawing-meets-design-line-shape monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1568082146875-8O93SAFLPB5S938CFVQA/phillips_ladieshomejournal_050024_crop_sm.jpg Graphic Tales - Drawing Meets Design: Line & Shape Coles Phillips, Advertisement for Wamsutta Percale, a purveyor of sheets and pillow cases. Ladies Home Journal, May 1924. Note how the figure is formed by edges of the lavender pattern on the dark blue field. The woman’s dress has no line around it. Note also the striking shape of the drapery (also defined completely by edge, not line) which had to be observed. Mr. Phillips did not make that up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403905107732-P2T5TJ8ZTA057NSIQH8B/Chwast_ink_children_pp21_1959.jpg Graphic Tales - Drawing Meets Design: Line & Shape Seymour Chwast, illustration in Pushpin #21, 1959. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403905130264-NETTLZLUPRVV61KZ9E7S/Benedict_Deputy_sm.jpg Graphic Tales - Drawing Meets Design: Line & Shape Ed Benedict, character sheet for Deputy Droopy, MGM Animation directed by Tex Avery, 1955 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403905150027-CCNRF8OT81VCDEXJIQ1R/benedict_shapes.jpg Graphic Tales - Drawing Meets Design: Line & Shape Shape vocabulary, Deputy Droopy character designs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403905170999-SACUNZ72BPO1FJIX2A5H/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Drawing Meets Design: Line & Shape Designer unknown, Marty Mayrose advertising character for Mayrose Meats, circa 1967 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403905197425-AW4CML5UODYXQTG6SJWG/Eulalie_Gingerbread_Boy_int_bw.jpg Graphic Tales - Drawing Meets Design: Line & Shape Eulalie Banks, Chicken Little in the children's book of the same name, for Platt and Munk, 1932 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403905240735-7JOF0AUK78RRUJFL0A9T/cards_sm.jpg Graphic Tales - Drawing Meets Design: Line & Shape Jehan Volay, publisher, Playing Cards with Spanish Suits, 18th century (reproduced in the Dover book Antique Playing Cards, 1996) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403905246921-3DZX7JKW3IJ8K99EVW27/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Drawing Meets Design: Line & Shape Toby Thane Neighbors, illustration for Faesthetic No. 13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403905316454-D04HSG5KFR3OM5JYSX7J/gerlach_allegory_left_det.jpg Graphic Tales - Drawing Meets Design: Line & Shape Karel Spillar, Music, Poetry, Painting in Gerlach's Allegorien, 1898 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403905275022-Z7ZJKUN71EH3JOBRYHTW/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Drawing Meets Design: Line & Shape Karel Spillar, detail from Music, Poetry, Painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403905341251-W4K3AL4NXB9T3YG44SQO/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Drawing Meets Design: Line & Shape Karel Spillar, detail from Music, Poetry, Painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403905372353-LWCI8VWHAVPK6F54ZD64/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Drawing Meets Design: Line & Shape Ruth Chrisman Gannett, illustration for My Father's Dragon, by Ruth Stiles Gannett, 1948 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403905410567-AA7ORN06NVM5O0QPJ4TD/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Drawing Meets Design: Line & Shape D.B. Dowd, Mother Hen, from In Pursuit of God's Kingdom, by the Rev. James F. Dowd [my uncle] 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403905491276-EYUUM93J91WN5JIM3047/Steinweiss_pines_rome.jpg Graphic Tales - Drawing Meets Design: Line & Shape Alex Steinweiss, album cover design for Respighi: The Pines of Rome, conducted by Eugene Ormandy, Columbia Records, 1946 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403905504844-M8YDAVT83RH825I0WQ5Z/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Drawing Meets Design: Line & Shape Steinweiss, detail, Respighi cover https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404139681923-PKQ7KHUV04FISR8ZNB7G/Eksell_1.jpg Graphic Tales - Drawing Meets Design: Line & Shape Olle Eksell, children's book design comps, 1958 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404139722562-NUTE9JZO5ZTNWPJQ55OL/Eksell_2.jpg Graphic Tales - Drawing Meets Design: Line & Shape Olle Eksell, children's book design comps, 1958 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404139732721-8XZMJMBARVKHJ4UO2JQZ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Drawing Meets Design: Line & Shape Designer unknown, Dutch Girl advertising character, 1956 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404139757613-6ZMS0J8E9J7KHZQ4AW3I/05_beckhoff-colliers-061241-2.jpg Graphic Tales - Drawing Meets Design: Line & Shape Harry Beckhoff, Calfs Ain't Housebroke, fiction illustration for Collier's June 12, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1568084533139-GHQG3KPUAE62SW0PNEWP/Flora-pg77-1955.jpg Graphic Tales - Drawing Meets Design: Line & Shape Jim Flora, album cover design for Till Eulenspiegel by Richard Strauss, The NBC Symphony Orchestra, RCA Victor, 1955. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1568085587437-88LOMJ537PAB2YCRU0AI/gillespie_silhouette_pair-crop_sm.jpg Graphic Tales - Drawing Meets Design: Line & Shape Jessie Gillespie, periodical illustration, circa 1919. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/colorful-structures monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1568059578896-9FMVTHL538YJKP9O762U/Screen+Shot+2019-09-09+at+3.04.58+PM.png Graphic Tales - Colorful Structures Redux Screenshot, Color Picker in Photoshop, HSB Mode, isolating value and chroma—the digital equivalent of a chroma section in the Munsell system. Value is vertical, saturation is horizontal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403804585673-V2BMFGVAE41NSG0VEGHY/image-asset.gif Graphic Tales - Colorful Structures Redux Alfred Munsell (circa 1905) a landscape painter and gifted standardizer of color notation in the early days of industrial color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1568065161139-UEIN7IOEPNB4L5HL90LV/FloraExplan1HueCircle1ALT.jpg Graphic Tales - Colorful Structures Redux My home-made translation of the Munsell Hue Circle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1568067147797-MEYN8I8CW9EL5JEY8HBY/Munsell+color+Leaf.png Graphic Tales - Colorful Structures Redux A value and chroma scale for red. Courtesy of Encyclopedia Britannica. 2012. Look at rows 4 and 5. The grays on the far left are of the same value as the bright reds on the far right. Squint to see the value relationship; by blocking light you shut down your cones (which see color wavelengths) and rely on your rods (which see only light and dark). It takes time and practice to discern between value and chroma, or saturation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1568067576275-13JOYAIQUL147C2WO2GC/Munsell_1943_color_solid_cylindrical_coordinates.png Graphic Tales - Colorful Structures Redux Representation of Munsell Color Solid, updated in 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1568065309116-B2UJBUN7UTT99I49M1RI/Flora-pg31-armstrongcover-1947.jpg Graphic Tales - Colorful Structures Redux Jim Flora, jacket design for Louis Armstrong's Hot Five, a 1928 jazz reissue by Columbia records (1947). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1568066662427-PM4XR76G2W60426IEIW0/FloraExplan2HueCircle2ALT.jpg Graphic Tales - Colorful Structures Redux Flora's palette arrayed on the hue circle sans adjustment of value or saturation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1568065513783-5DYPV1NYKUAUE7BSGJWC/FloraExplan5ColorSchemeREVISED2ALT.jpg Graphic Tales - Colorful Structures Redux Schematic rendering of Flora's palette according to values, lightest to darkest, rotating clockwise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1411358015063-758FC0GZ8UYUX2BHZXBI/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Colorful Structures Redux Procession scene, Sleeping Beauty, Walt Disney Studios, 1959. Eyvind Earle was responsible for background paintings and the palettes on this film. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1568065801212-L3A12ZDW7OM9A7OFZCN3/hue+circle+capture+sleeping+beautyALT.jpg Graphic Tales - Colorful Structures Redux Eyvind Earle's Sleeping Beauty procession palette arrayed on the hue circle sans adjustment of value or saturation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1568065928201-7V1QX6C8ZZ8JDLH11O5X/hue+circle+chroma+adjustment+sleeping+beauty1ALT.jpg Graphic Tales - Colorful Structures Redux The same palette, adjusted to spectrum values. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1568066014611-FYV48FM288I30AKM6VS3/hue+circle+chroma+w+triad+sleeping+beautyALT.jpg Graphic Tales - Colorful Structures Redux Analysis of Earle's palette as a rough triad. Color schemes like triads, tetrads and analogous wedges are most useful as 1) descriptors and 2) get-out-jail-free cards. A little such analysis can get you out of trouble. Using schemes as recipes can yield somewhat tedious results. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/picture-lotto monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403820836034-D2TA1687FCSHO117HB1R/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Owls, Devils, Wagons: Adventures in Picture Lotto C. Clement, Picture Lotto Game Card, Samuel Gabriel Sons and Company, circa 1950 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403820861943-FH1LIODMRKZ07EPQYNUN/draw_me_screen_shot.jpg Graphic Tales - Owls, Devils, Wagons: Adventures in Picture Lotto Draw Me form, Image and Story assignment (a version of which has been used from 2010-2016). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1473396787579-Y86609B777RPSZWQGRZB/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Owls, Devils, Wagons: Adventures in Picture Lotto C. Clement, Wagon, circa 1950 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1473397599503-WCJ8O6A9KOGXVEATZTNE/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Owls, Devils, Wagons: Adventures in Picture Lotto D.B. Dowd, screenshot detail, Animated Ulcer City Landing Page, 2004. This project was animated by Melanie Reinert who worked in my shop back in the days of Macromedia Flash. That's a self-portrait on the phone, along with a rat (a favored trope of Melanie's) and a winking devil with flaming charcoal briquet. The devil illustration had been created a few years earlier for a tee shirt design to commemorate a family vacation at Seven Devils, North Carolina. He's been squashed a little to fit in the elliptical sign shape. The same character also appears very briefly in Scenes from Starkdale, Ohio, an experimental animated project from 2006-07. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1473452055140-3XWHELJK44BGAOPNA0LT/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Owls, Devils, Wagons: Adventures in Picture Lotto Ward Kimball, character design for Professor Owl in Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, an Oscar-winning educational short from 1953. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1473451496021-QB4BKUCX5LKESGB9EFFM/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Owls, Devils, Wagons: Adventures in Picture Lotto D.B. Dowd, Kokosinger Owl, 2-color version. 2016. This design was used on a baseball cap for the 50th anniversary of the Kokosingers' founding in academic year 1965-66. The a cappella group got its name from the Kokosing River, which is alleged to mean "owl creek" in the American Indian language (Miami? Delaware?) of origin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403820896849-72V4KJT3EZWQAIIC3F6W/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Owls, Devils, Wagons: Adventures in Picture Lotto Picture Lotto Game, Samuel Gabriel Sons and Company. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1563836234448-BJDPL5LDJOU8116PX1PT/Screen+Shot+2019-07-22+at+5.53.44+PM.png Graphic Tales - Owls, Devils, Wagons: Adventures in Picture Lotto Scott Gericke, cover design, Stick Figures: Drawing as a Human Practice (Spartan Holiday Books in association with the Norman Rockwell Museum, 2018.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403820943721-OUP0NNFSDFC7T0YGYZRJ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Owls, Devils, Wagons: Adventures in Picture Lotto Golden Funtime Punch-Out Books. Golden Press, 1962. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403820963778-3CV6QKSYORUZVSBJD1OB/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Owls, Devils, Wagons: Adventures in Picture Lotto Illustrator Uncredited. Golden Funtime Punch-Outs: Toys and Things We Use. 1962. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1473432509475-ZT9I7VAM8VLUOQ5KTRY9/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Owls, Devils, Wagons: Adventures in Picture Lotto Illustrator Uncredited, Flash Cards from Uno: A Phonics Game, manufactured by Kenworthy Educational Service, Inc., of Buffalo, NY. No. 2192. Published 1957, following several editions with different illustration and typography from the mid 1940s. I found a library entry in Melbourne Austraila that credits guide book authorship to one Stella I. Wood. My set does not include a guide, though there is a pad of score sheets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403820986736-6OM84CS1V63D87B0YYQW/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Owls, Devils, Wagons: Adventures in Picture Lotto C. Clement, Television, circa 1950. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1473400575382-6JZZZE4HSX42RTU424RG/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Owls, Devils, Wagons: Adventures in Picture Lotto Illustrator Uncredited. Golden Funtime Punch-Out. A television that looks sort of like a radio. The puppet is the point. 1962. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403821010529-Z1RNW6MW18NAD80T1QMC/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Owls, Devils, Wagons: Adventures in Picture Lotto Fran Allison with Kukla and Ollie. Circa 1950. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1473451682918-PI7DZTURBKPTZWF0ARCB/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Owls, Devils, Wagons: Adventures in Picture Lotto The Hollings (Holling C. Holling and Lucille Webster Holling), Netting Fish, in Children of Other Lands, Platt & Munk, 1929. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1473451805625-WQQ0HGBOUBZODBV126YD/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Owls, Devils, Wagons: Adventures in Picture Lotto The Hollings (Holling C. Holling and Lucille Webster Holling), detail, title page, Children of Other Lands, Platt & Munk, 1929. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2019/6/28/spartan-holiday-no-3-french-lesson-now-available monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1561743252039-S64UDUFGJZRGXIVZGHFR/Spartan_Product-45_trim.jpg Graphic Tales - Spartan Holiday No. 3 "French Lesson" Now Available Spartan Holiday No. 3: French Lesson. 2019. Written and Illustrated by D.B. Dowd. Graphic Design by Scott Gericke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1561743298608-GE3AT2WI959HLC6CAIOM/SH_FL_Mockup1_trim.jpg Graphic Tales - Spartan Holiday No. 3 "French Lesson" Now Available D.B. Dowd, illustrations and hand lettering, “Since I was raised in a place named for a Frenchman.” Spartan Holiday No. 3. 2019. The illustration is of a game between the Massillon Tigers and the Akron St. Mary’s-St. Vincent Fighting Irish, October 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1561743368993-F7ZLC3NJ1OSGZELMP8CD/Spartan_Product-36_sq.jpg Graphic Tales - Spartan Holiday No. 3 "French Lesson" Now Available D.B. Dowd, Parisian Alphabet (annotated), Spartan Holiday No. 3. Observed lettering, documented as a character set (minus W, for which la langue française has no use). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1561744850932-RHHR9J4JD3NIUFYD4XDA/submarine+picture.jpg Graphic Tales - Spartan Holiday No. 3 "French Lesson" Now Available D.B. Dowd, Farfadet Salvage Operation, redrawn cover image, Le Petit Journal illustrée, July 23, 1905 issue, Spartan Holiday No. 3. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1561745104378-1Y322M6S7BPVRB85O8IY/football+mural_sm.jpg Graphic Tales - Spartan Holiday No. 3 "French Lesson" Now Available D.B. Dowd, “The French suffer from grandiloquence. But not only the French.” SH 3, 2019. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/key-plates-key-figures-key-questions monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403893136977-NQWPSHUBY5PEASBXPXN1/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Key Plates, Key Figures, Key Questions Mass of St. Gregory, hand-colored woodcut; South German, 1420-1430 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403893159451-37FGF5KQ0E3AMFIKXCAN/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Key Plates, Key Figures, Key Questions Harry Beckhoff, Thumbnail Sketch, magazine illustration circa 1940 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403893183840-3I20WOI61HJO7SFB3ID9/Gruger-SEP-121330.jpg Graphic Tales - Key Plates, Key Figures, Key Questions Frederic Gruger, Saturday Evening Post, December 13, 1930 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403893205381-NSNF0QD5LYZA0XEXEYZS/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Key Plates, Key Figures, Key Questions Moab Man, Fremont Culture Petroglyph, circa 1000 CE, Moab, Utah, photograph by DB Dowd, 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403893233637-QO37EO96DR2Q68X3PS1T/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Key Plates, Key Figures, Key Questions Explanation of Duotype, Commercial Engraving and Printing; A Manual of Practical Instruction, by Charles Hackleman, published by Commercial Engraving Publishing Company, Indianapolis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403893274659-73IG5C58R09TBUK9SX3C/Caniff-terryandpirates-7-2.jpg Graphic Tales - Key Plates, Key Figures, Key Questions Milton Caniff, Terry and the Pirates, daily comic strip, November 22, 1937 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403893284242-ITJQ8JEC7AMV8AYGTGJR/Milton_Caniff_Terry_006_det.jpg Graphic Tales - Key Plates, Key Figures, Key Questions Caniff, Terry, single panel from Sunday strip published on September 10, 1944 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403893312643-S9EV04XA1H73Y8UZVB4F/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Key Plates, Key Figures, Key Questions David Stone Martin, Roy Eldridge Collates, album cover illustration, Mercury/Clef Records, 1952 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403893321801-9ADUD051W3K0DG3RJBB3/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Key Plates, Key Figures, Key Questions Caniff, Terry, single panel from Sunday strip published on September 10, 1944 David Stone Martin, Roy Eldridge Collates, album cover illustration, Mercury/Clef Records, 1952 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403893366042-43SIJMKWUQGIX5RJ50RW/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Key Plates, Key Figures, Key Questions Lew Keller, Concept Art, The Four Poster, United Productions of America, directed by John Hubley, 1952 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403893389701-4BZJOWXR6O02RGWR4BR4/Four_poster_UPA_conceptart_left_detail.jpg Graphic Tales - Key Plates, Key Figures, Key Questions Lew Keller, Concept Art, The Four Poster, United Productions of America, directed by John Hubley, 1952 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403893429548-GBJ7U0XSY7O62VNV9XIL/Hess_2color_Bug_Gun_left.jpg Graphic Tales - Key Plates, Key Figures, Key Questions Lowell Hess, Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Bug! interior magazine spread illustration, Every Woman Magazine, 1961 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403893439756-NNRUZP2G8BX7YK3AG8B8/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Key Plates, Key Figures, Key Questions Harry Beckhoff, Slowly the Clawlike Blades Closed Over the Package of Cigarettes, interior magazine illustration, Collier's, January 29, 1938 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403893471036-JCT5X5IAH3D2JKE8ZZZ6/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Key Plates, Key Figures, Key Questions Martin, Jam Session #2, album cover illustration, Mercury/Clef Records, 1953 (?) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403893512600-8UY28ZSJ3TZETPV7TVQO/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Key Plates, Key Figures, Key Questions Rea Irvin, book illustrations from Snoot If You Must, by Lucius Beebe; D. Appleton-Century Company, New York. 1943 https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/11/display-that-examples-commentary monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402511005117-SUO3F95DZDMEC2WKKZUE/Star_Observation_Calendar_Image+copy.jpg Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections D.B. Dowd, Cassiopeia Does the Twist, an evening's worth of stargazing notes, August 10-11, 2008, near Moab, Utah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402511044694-BI05CKTKS88Y4UUMGD1Q/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections D.B. Dowd, 1967 Chrysler New Yorker and 1965 Ford Econoline Pickup, from "Shanghai Pictorial," Spartan Holiday No. 1, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1551542114275-E9OMX5S8E0FCBEIYN2TC/eskell_creatures+copy.jpeg Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections Olle Eskell, Imaginary Creatures (reproduced in Olle Eskell, Swedish Graphic Designer). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402510981145-2N4S356DJRJV9V3QICDZ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections Milt Groth, Automobile Paper Dolls, center "Playtime" spread, Jack and Jill Magazine, circa 1950. Usually the center spread was a paper doll activity which appealed to girls. They tried this as a sop to the boys, and probably as an office joke, too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1551545568014-QV4TA9II558FAF9YPCRQ/kool_aid_indians_9+copy.png Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections An arrangement without depth or overlapping. Kids’ heads, from a Kool-Aid television advertisement, 1950s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1551543176698-2KI6RNBIAU25PLHYMY0L/french_vocabulary+tint.jpg Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections A straightforward gridded presentation of French vocabulary words. Uncredited illustration from cours de la langue et la civilisation Françaises I, Librairie Hachette, 1953. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1424788552989-DPZHLSCT08D5XHCTEJ09/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections Another representation of strata, at rather a different scale than the skin illustration at right. Oil Exploration, still from Destination Earth, an industrial film from 1956 with a modernist sensibility. John Sutherland Productions. Directed by Carl Urbano, Production Design by Tom Oreb and Victor Haboush. (More stills from this film here.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402512114509-SFF6MNPRMOUYICSF3MGA/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections Henri Matisse, The Red Studio, 1911. Matisse flattens with color, erasing depth from a putatively descriptive picture: the Red Studio. Militant two-dimensionality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402511745276-HLZWPJZALZRQBMQFIB4I/Screen+Shot+2014-06-11+at+1.31.54+PM.png Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections Can I drive this car in heels? Reasons to buy a Dodge Polaris, especially if you're female in the mid 20th century. Illustrator uncredited, advertisement, 1960 Dodge Polaris. (Car advertisements began addressing women as consumers in the 1910s, and the intersection of driving and women’s clothing was a subject all along.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1551334017411-JJVAYDBFZLHELMYVC4PO/SF_125_buchsbaum1938_obelia.png Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections Elizabeth Buchsbaum, Polyp Types, Obeilia, from Animals Without Backbones, 1937. An essay in line weight, by Elizabeth Buchsbaum, from Animals Without Backbones. I have written about her before. (I would really like to locate her drawings for exhibition purposes. I once heard from someone in the Buchsbaum clan, but then the line went dead. Anybody out there?) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402512318284-UAH0COSQIYN4W90ODBII/Screen+Shot+2014-06-11+at+1.36.46+PM.png Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections Google Street View before the fact. Illustrator uncredited, a fragment of a broadsheet-sized rendering of the Astor family real estate empire, published on January 1, 1899 by the New York World. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1551544674392-WLI5XWBAKTDO9DC5TWDT/Hawaii.jpeg Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections World Geographic Atlas, designed by Herbert Bayer. Published by the Container Corporation of America (CCA) in 1953. This is a breathtakingly beautiful book. Bayer was a Bauhaus graphic designer relocated to the States. This particular image shows flora and fauna of the Hawaiian Islands. The items overlap but retain their integrity through color and contrast. An approach which all but eliminates an implied “container” for the illustrations (contrast, for example, with the French vocabulary words). This is a fragment of a large page, dense with information but intelligently placed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402512502944-8VZFFSAB7UKKEV3WFHY1/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections An index of weaponry. Spearheads. A Scandinavian expert memorably named Worsaae catalogued Viking artifacts in the British Isles in 1846-47. This is one of 12 watercolors (No. 3, to be precise) to appear in An Account of the Danes and Norwegians in England, Scotland, and Ireland in 1851-52. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402512801332-NPAPNZT9MVGKUYKWCC5O/Screen+Shot+2014-06-11+at+1.37.05+PM.png Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections Gameboards are relevant. Snakes and Ladders, forerunner of MB's Chutes and Ladders. N.D. Snakes is creepier, but way cooler, too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402512767597-2S4FCBQBGDSEWF78EC9W/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections More arrangement of zones, in this case on a purely decorative basis. Kolor-Blox game board, circa 1935. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1551545887313-UAZZ0M7GI1ZO8A0E8U65/meyers_lexicon_chickenvarieties+copy.jpg Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections Chicken breeds, balancing spatial presentation with display of critical information. There is a little cheating going on: the ground plane has been tipped up, and scale shifts have been downplayed. Cleverly done. From Meyer’s Lexikon (1896) , a German encyclopedia interspersed with lovely chromolithographs like this one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1551546605302-KM6NDPE8OQRR9CEOXUU7/pillow_talk_14+copy.png Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections Finally, even a split screen in a film is a kind of display. Here, Doris Day and Rock Hudson in Pillow Talk, 1959. Directed by Michael Gordon. Hudson, (unknown to the movie-going public) a gay man, plays a smoothie-lothario who pretends to be gay at points. Jean Louis did Doris Day’s costumes, which are incredible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402511083122-TZXNZRBPD94VUD4DNA1X/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections For starters: a set of scientific instruments, translated into engaging form using a slightly abstract sensibility and a two-color palette. Jim Flora, cover illustration, Research and Engineering, January 1956. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1551541734219-JF1NXXV8CVAJPL0S8EML/Strata.jpeg Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections Illustration of archaeological dig, Dordogne, France in Early Man, Time-Life Books, 1965. Art direction by Sheldon Cotler; illustrator uncredited. (1 of 2) Note that we see the excavated matter from three sides, to provide spatial context and scale reference for the schematic representations of several layers called out in diagrams—one of which is shown below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1551541957487-P5R0J4LUKI99BUQS89XU/SChematic+1.jpeg Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections Schematic representation of material excavated from one layer (see illustration above). Early Man, Time-Life Books, 1965. (2 of 2) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1551538799064-ICFFWAL94LJXTF078U9H/seibold_mrlunch_boats72.jpg Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections Mr. Lunch saw many different types of boats. A display of semi-silly vessels (love the soda-pop boat) for a children’s book about a dog who steals a canoe. J. Otto Seibold, Types of Boats, Mr. Lunch Borrows a Canoe, 1994. A “zany” presentation, yet with a highly controlled palette. The delightful personality of the illustration dominates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402511288292-O0BCXP39QSLTF74Y530W/Screen+Shot+2014-06-11+at+1.25.10+PM.png Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections An astronomical diagram with type, from the mid 19th century: John Emslie, Transparent Solar System Displaying the Planets with Their Orbits, as Known at the Present Day, published by James Reynolds and Sons, London, circa 1844. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402511275505-XW4NIOTLE3SIOEKE6XSZ/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections A cross section of skin, from the 1965 World Book Encyclopedia. Very straightforward: a black-and-white drawing enlivened and clarified with tints. Given a good key drawing (no small thing) it would take about 30 seconds to do this by multiplying the black layer in Photoshop and throwing a little color behind it. (Illustrator credit unavailable.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402511457800-2E40TITCGZ59TJ6H9PN5/Screen+Shot+2014-06-11+at+1.28.57+PM.png Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections Several variations on a theme: figures displayed to show relationships or actions on a single plane. Stan Strembicki, Fremont Petroglyphs, Nine Mile Canyon, Utah. 2011. Photographed by my friend and colleague Stan Strembicki a few years back on a documentary expedition (for my book Stick Figures). He climbed up on a ledge to shoot this one, just as I was beginning to figure out that you can drive into Nine Mile Canyon, but you can't drive out the other end. Big bummer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402511597854-72YZ2AF3AKH180MP871W/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections Ed Benedict (?), Character Sheet for The Jetsons, a Hanna-Barbera Show, 1962. George, Jane, Judy et. al., may have been designed by Benedict–they betray his sense of shape. I have never been able to find a character design credit for the show. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1487956986064-ILVO21C6VYJKII97L5CQ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections Ed Benedict draws Snagglepuss, 1958. The "display" is inadvertent, really: he is just trying things, one next to the other. I shot this on my iPhone (a little grainy) at the Norman Rockwell Museum in February 2017, at the Hanna Barbera Show. Benedict's pencils were the best things in it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402512194531-V3PU17TLAQJ762JG5NCL/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections Color and density used to convey emphasis. Stefano Buonsignori, Map of France, from the Geographical Panels in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. 1576. I stood in this room in 2003, agape. I bought the ridiculously expensive book, which sits among my atlases of various cartographic and typographic personalities. A really beautiful thing; lovely color and variation in treatment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402512369031-TDHVFNPP6DDA4AKSV3HW/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections Things overlap on another in a landscape view. But look at the treatment of the smaller vehicles in between the double-decker buses. A strong sense of space, yet, but items are enumerated. Miroslav Sasek, Picadilly Square, in This is London, 1960. A fabulous set of books, reissued in this century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402512412866-Z78ON7LP0E2P1PF9KLOL/Screen+Shot+2014-06-11+at+1.41.44+PM.png Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections Olle Eskell, a park with cityscape. The establishment of spatial zones to show particular items appropriate to each. An extremely useful example for strategizing the display of information which relies place or setting, physical or conceptual. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402512439662-CTR81T97HBEOVWPDQK5X/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections Francesca Ryan, Untitled (Megalomanical Obelisk with Tapeworm? Powerline Vaudeville?). 2013. This may not be intelligible, but who can gainsay its urgency? By Francesca Ryan. Children are ferocious intenders. I love this thing. (I pumped the contrast on the pencil, producing that somewhat over-the-top yellow. Not Francesca's fault. Bad art direction!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402512638356-UAHKWTUL8K0D0KFKSIQA/Screen+Shot+2014-06-11+at+1.42.16+PM.png Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections More old stuff from Britain. Specimens from a book of English fossil finds. To some degree like the spearheads above, a stone wall built from tiny pebbles and varied rocks, mortared with negative space. "Eocene Shells at Bracklesham" from The Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex, by Frederick Dixon. 1850. This (and a thousand other printed pictorial excavations) at the wonderful blog Bibliodyssey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1551548299374-0O1BJOK1FZ5YNW5ZHBVC/Grays_anatomy_The_Blood_Vascular_det.jpg Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections Articulation of a system embedded in others systems. Illustration by Henry Vandyke Carter, From Gray’s Anatomy. 1858. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1551546142965-CPCTKX3XQHB3ANWH9RH5/mathematics.jpeg Graphic Tales - Display That! Adventures in Collections An alternate approach to building a display system with decorative potential: Lowell Hess’s title page illustration for Mathematics. I have written elsewhere about Hess, whose visual range was quite exceptional. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2018/9/5/airport-drawings monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1536259033681-DDG1UF08SA0MTPCZ6JZB/Airport_Predawn_text_new_smaller.jpg Graphic Tales - Airport Drawings: Prelude D.B. Dowd, Pre-Dawn Flight to LGA. 2011. Gouache and digital color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1536258731159-FMF6A9LPJF670IVC0VJ1/Islip_Airport.jpg Graphic Tales - Airport Drawings: Prelude D.B. Dowd, Airport, Islip, NY. 2011.Sketchbook drawing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1536258055160-9J976RKOE26WX4XT5TN9/Supersonic_Totems_AI.jpg Graphic Tales - Airport Drawings: Prelude D.B. Dowd, Air National Guard Station Entrance (constructed), Lambert Airport, St. Louis. 2010. Gouache and digital color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1536257899413-SJESQP59RRYMQDXVZNVH/Airport_Relics_yellow_white.jpg Graphic Tales - Airport Drawings: Prelude D.B. Dowd, Conflated Subjects: Airport Parking and Air National Guard, 2009. Gouache and Digital Color. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2018/6/28/5iuthb2ixalc0inmr90n2mzobaivod monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1530312052964-L6TSCO38SMYLEE0BYVQ3/Screen+Shot+2018-06-29+at+5.40.10+PM.png Graphic Tales - Rolling out Some Major News Inside front cover, Stick Figures: Drawing as a Human Practice. Hand lettered signage, Robinson's Pecan House, north of Perry, Florida. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1530311865044-BGEGXBQFNE77VZW5BXXJ/SF_cover_promotion.jpg Graphic Tales - Rolling out Some Major News Scott Gericke, cover design, Stick Figures: Drawing as a Human Practice. Published by Spartan Holiday Books and Norman Rockwell Museum, July 2018. Photograph by Stan Strembicki. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2018/3/12/celebrazione-di-howard-pyle-a-firenze monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1520862392574-WEAYN7G4SFCTBIB1HIG4/Pyle_pirate_handsome.jpg Graphic Tales - Celebrazione di Howard Pyle a Firenze Howard Pyle, The Buccaneer was a picturesque fellow, illustration for "The Fate of a Treasure Town," in Harper's Monthly Magazine, December 1905. Better known as Buccaneer of the Caribbean, republished and so captioned in the posthumous collection, Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates, 1923. Original painting in the Delaware Art Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1520862159408-7Y6LAK9R2YCPAK3JWJZE/IMG_7334.jpg Graphic Tales - Celebrazione di Howard Pyle a Firenze Howard Pyle Plaque Installation, photograph by Jeff Pike (with Rockwellian Flourish of guy in window), Florence, Italy, March 11, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1520861859183-TSQSAYOR3WDSEEW2WZG9/battle-nashville-painting.jpeg Graphic Tales - Celebrazione di Howard Pyle a Firenze Howard Pyle, The Battle of Nashville, 1906. Minnesota Statehouse, Saint Paul, Minnesota. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2018/2/21/wanted-brief-essay-on-sources-and-methods monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1519538872183-SO0PTI1A47SEI4NANCBX/Screen+Shot+2018-02-25+at+12.07.20+AM.png Graphic Tales - Wanted: Brief Essay on Methods and Sources Exhibition Brochure, Parallel Modes: Illustrated Visual Journalism and American Photography 1955-1980. January-February 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1519539254997-XSXP65TIAK03BAXTTN0R/Screen+Shot+2018-02-25+at+12.13.53+AM.png Graphic Tales - Wanted: Brief Essay on Methods and Sources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1519539168146-6SXQPTYSX946XCZIUSGF/Screen+Shot+2018-02-25+at+12.12.08+AM.png Graphic Tales - Wanted: Brief Essay on Methods and Sources Checklist, Parallel Modes, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1519587978166-GBMAPKGHKNZH6PWPEM22/SRK_AirplaneWindow_BWI-LHR.jpg Graphic Tales - Wanted: Brief Essay on Methods and Sources Shreyas R Krishnan, Airplane Window, BWI-LHR, from Transit II, 2015.       https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1519587898276-76DHNTPKKZ1IUHKQ8LH2/SRK_RawlingsConservatory.jpg Graphic Tales - Wanted: Brief Essay on Methods and Sources Shreyas R Krishnan, Rawlings Conservatory, from Charm City, 2015.     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1519537774027-U9JCTLNE4WLYA1E70NWU/0202dc6b52d9adcc34ea02235c7a2ef2.jpg Graphic Tales - Wanted: Brief Essay on Methods and Sources Robert Andrew Parker, Cars on Highway, cover illustration, Fortune Magazine, August 1957. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1519537799225-WOYETVODCCWQ7E5WG7O4/9be7cdad24d234dbe143f1bf14fdd110.jpg Graphic Tales - Wanted: Brief Essay on Methods and Sources Robert Andrew Parker, The Private Strategy of Bethlehem Steel, cover illustration, Fortune Magazine, April 1962. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1519530960300-HIO3WJ57WPLQD06A6F02/Screen+Shot+2018-02-24+at+9.54.55+PM.png Graphic Tales - Wanted: Brief Essay on Methods and Sources Robert Weaver, story illustration for Little Italy: Study of an Italian Ghetto, by Nicholas Pileggi, New York Magazine, August 12, 1968. Art directed by Milton Glaser. (Pileggi later wrote Goodfellas.) We looked at tear sheets for this story in class. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1519528437590-5YPZM1VV72OHFHV8SHMO/weaver-timeline3.jpg Graphic Tales - Wanted: Brief Essay on Methods and Sources Robert Weaver, visual essay for undated issue of New York Magazine, about a then-new electronic dispatch system. Circa 1970. Also saw these tear sheets on Wednesday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1519528600515-Y01XPFOY73MG6MWDYYP0/weaver-timeline6.jpg Graphic Tales - Wanted: Brief Essay on Methods and Sources Robert Weaver, visual essay for undated issue of New York Magazine, about a then-new electronic dispatch system. Circa 1970. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1519528494574-MEVY7MEBEQWAA7FN8UBP/Weaver_SpringTraining62_53.jpg Graphic Tales - Wanted: Brief Essay on Methods and Sources Robert Weaver, Joe DiMaggio, from Spring Training Sketchbook, unpublished drawing for a project that ran in the March 5, 1962 issue of Sports Illustrated. This sketchbook is in the collections of the Modern Graphic History Library at Washington University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1519528542121-S4IHVLK0DZJ672C86SPC/Weaver_SpringTraining62_44_LOW-RES.jpg Graphic Tales - Wanted: Brief Essay on Methods and Sources Robert Weaver, unpublished drawing, 1962. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1519530765820-RDV7KBBNL704P23M1TFX/weaver-brieflives5-pool.jpg Graphic Tales - Wanted: Brief Essay on Methods and Sources Robert Weaver, story illustration for Brief Lives, (speculatively) a book proposal that went unpublished. Which is too bad, as the project is a potent visual essay urban life: a social portrait of young men of color with systematically compromised prospects, courtesy of a hostile justice system and indifferent schools. Ring a bell? Circa 1970. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1519529685792-SHTA4NXSOX88F1INAQXX/condak00_sm.jpg Graphic Tales - Wanted: Brief Essay on Methods and Sources Table of Contents, Sports Illustrated, October 28, 1963. Note under Pro Basketball's New Season, "A Portfolio of Paintings." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1519528703688-WZB9KOH44FBBB03362YZ/condak03_trim+copy.jpg Graphic Tales - Wanted: Brief Essay on Methods and Sources Cliff Condak, The locker room before a game, a gray-green world of private worry where each man tries to ready himself. Illustration for "Big Men on the Move," feature in the October 28, 1963 issue of Sports Illustrated. Art directed by Dick Gangel. Notable positioning of the pictures as "paintings," not illustrations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1519530065243-7RD5ZUMT2RPIO6P50S0A/condak01_det.jpg Graphic Tales - Wanted: Brief Essay on Methods and Sources Headline copy with credit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1519528754304-V5V2SFCI5FDC18YQYCT3/condak01+copy.jpg Graphic Tales - Wanted: Brief Essay on Methods and Sources Cliff Condak, "Big Men on the Move," Sports Illustrated, October 28, 1963. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1519596424850-HBNDL48E7M85A31QHPDX/fish_vanityfair_000221_det1.jpg Graphic Tales - Wanted: Brief Essay on Methods and Sources Anne Harriet Fish, Vanity Fair, February 1921. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1519596378825-Y09YWJLLIDKYQRKK04EE/fish_harpersbazaar_00129_det.jpg Graphic Tales - Wanted: Brief Essay on Methods and Sources Anne Harriet Fish, Harper's Bazaar, January 1929 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1519600177784-ITE8NI4IVSIKK8AFB1HW/Chrysler%2BEconoline.jpg Graphic Tales - Wanted: Brief Essay on Methods and Sources D.B. Dowd, Oldsmobile and Ford Econoline Van, from Spartan Holiday 1, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1519600478549-DQQXFB35I00KSZXDY8UD/Oral_surgery_alt_sm.jpg Graphic Tales - Wanted: Brief Essay on Methods and Sources D.B. Dowd, 170 Interchange, Viewed from the Orthodontist's Office, sketchbook drawing, 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1519601394893-R2UX5Q4688MW5RPM0XG7/Airport_Predawn_text_new.jpg Graphic Tales - Wanted: Brief Essay on Methods and Sources D.B. Dowd, Delayed Predawn Flight, March 2009. Sketchbook drawing later inked + digital color. 2009. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/environmental-narratives monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1517288332070-8ULQD4TODV068PXBYZ5W/Chinese_Sprinkling_pg33X.jpg Graphic Tales - Environmental Narratives Chinese Sprinkling. Reproduced in Peasant Paintings from Huhsien County. 1974. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1517288099034-743G5Y9DGH7YFXHYYUJQ/Theibaud.jpg Graphic Tales - Environmental Narratives Wayne Thiebaud, San Francisco West Side Ridge, 2001. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1517291667278-B7SS4VBEMDWJL6RJX7NA/freeway-from-the-air.jpg Graphic Tales - Environmental Narratives Wayne Thiebaud, Freeway from the Air. N.D. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1517292144497-ABXW1Y6UV9PRO07SV7OX/Chinese_Prefab+Parts_pg29X.jpg Graphic Tales - Environmental Narratives Prefabricated Parts. Reproduced in Peasant Paintings from Huhsien County. 1974. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1517289630209-ZKW1XS97PWAF83IP7EBN/2004.30.4_1a.jpg Graphic Tales - Environmental Narratives Wayne Thiebaud, Levee Farms, 1998. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1517288467476-7UX75C7GRAR1XKV8FAM4/Chinese_Grasp+Revolution_pg16X.jpg Graphic Tales - Environmental Narratives The Chinese Grasp Revolution. Reproduced in Peasant Paintings from Huhsien County. 1974. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1517289004120-0X2T8HQ503BDRG90J3OV/Chinese_Motor%27s+Roar_pg30X.jpg Graphic Tales - Environmental Narratives The Motor's Roar. Reproduced in Peasant Paintings from Huhsien County. 1974. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1517288112851-Z5TU6XX3A7DBZ80YIUC5/tumblr_nqi28oGc7f1rlaql2o4_1280.jpg Graphic Tales - Environmental Narratives Wayne Thiebaud, Down Penn Street. 1978. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1517289206108-AQE4VF3K2K56W1SPUUAQ/tumblr_nqi28oGc7f1rlaql2o8_1280.jpg Graphic Tales - Environmental Narratives Wayne Thiebaud, Hill Street (Day City) 1981. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1517291029982-KS7F4JHN2MV9Z802504S/Chinese_Foolish+Old+Men_pg18X.jpg Graphic Tales - Environmental Narratives Foolish Old Men. Reproduced in Peasant Paintings from Huhsien County. 1974. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2017/12/31/james-fullerton-dowd-an-appreciation monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1514765912527-F211SKOQWQRHR6C7GGYL/Screen+Shot+2017-12-31+at+6.17.40+PM.png Graphic Tales - James Fullerton Dowd: A Eulogy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1514765742560-M8Y7F34FUDPX2UT8JRVJ/Screen+Shot+2017-12-31+at+6.14.53+PM.png Graphic Tales - James Fullerton Dowd: A Eulogy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1514768909949-SU6JIP6BD17KZNBEK50W/Screen+Shot+2017-12-31+at+7.07.19+PM.png Graphic Tales - James Fullerton Dowd: A Eulogy Susan Ellsworth, page design, D.B. Dowd, illustration, In Pursuit of God's Kingdom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1514763982269-8QPU8FDQY8MC0FWHF2O1/2550.jpg Graphic Tales - James Fullerton Dowd: A Eulogy Jim and Betty Dowd in 2014, at Second Presbyterian Church, St. Louis. Photograph by Keltner. I am looking for better photographs of Jim and Betty, and will add same when I am able to. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1514760394607-7J87LQFGUC3IC0WZ4A7T/1021_Oxford_oblique.jpg Graphic Tales - James Fullerton Dowd: A Eulogy The house at 1021 Oxford NE, Massillon, Ohio, where Jim Dowd spent his childhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1514761772646-M2NH13M1QCZR8WLBU4TC/static1.squarespace.jpg Graphic Tales - James Fullerton Dowd: A Eulogy David D. Dowd, Jr., John C. "Jack" Dowd, and James F. Dowd. Family snapshot taken by David D. Dowd, Sr. or Martha Combrink Dowd, late 1940s. Shady Shores Resort, Dowagiac, Michigan. Photo courtesy of Deb Clinebell (née Dowd, daughter to Jim and Betty). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1514762640047-9JE7AQ8O731L8T4TD5JA/06_10_014753.jpg Graphic Tales - James Fullerton Dowd: A Eulogy Tinted Photograph Postcard, Shady Shores Resort, Dowagiac, Michigan, circa 1940. The Dowd family began vacationing here in 1938. My Uncle Jim and Aunty Betty Dowd continued this uninterrupted tradition with their own children, which continues to the present day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1514761995429-4L6NNZVTJE4LO9O839V6/dbdowd_PGK_cover.png Graphic Tales - James Fullerton Dowd: A Eulogy D.B. Dowd and Heather Corcoran, Cover Design, In Pursuit of God's Kingdom, Ulcer City Publications, 2011. I was privileged to work on this project, a compilation of Jim's sermons. The cover design is a quotation from the stained glass wall behind the chancel at First Presbyterian Church in Urbana, Illinois. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1514761241315-3Y9MLEAGSK3FBC57FCFL/David%2C+Martha+Dowd+Family_det_Jim.jpg Graphic Tales - James Fullerton Dowd: A Eulogy Jim Dowd, in the back; Betty Dowd with Ken Dowd in her lap; Debbie Dowd (now Clinebell) standing center; Martha Combrink Dowd (Jim's mother, my grandmother) at right. This is a detail from a much larger family photograph shot at 1021 Oxford in 1965. That conservative-looking guy in the back was a freedom rider in the South and on the scene for the March on Washington. He heard Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech live. (The audio was garbled and difficult to follow.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1514769137099-O62U698ZTLKODL0H4KFN/Screen+Shot+2017-12-31+at+7.11.09+PM.png Graphic Tales - James Fullerton Dowd: A Eulogy Susan Ellsworth, page design, D.B. Dowd, illustration, In Pursuit of God's Kingdom. Each of Jim's sermons got a launch like this one, with all-cap Joanna type and a two color image. This sermon, one from a series on the Lord's Prayer draws on my Aunt Betty's prodigious and skillful weaving to make its point. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1514766026687-GXKRE6PJ4B640LURNFJS/dbdowd_pgk_spot_angel.jpg Graphic Tales - James Fullerton Dowd: A Eulogy D.B. Dowd, Angel, spot illustration for In Pursuit of God's Kingdom. I drew this image of damaged statuary at Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, the city's 19th century Protestant necropolis. I now associate the drawing with Jim. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2017/11/17/lets-make-a-zine monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1510955871391-N1KZIJWXDJ3MOE6FJ2WN/Dowd_Hebdo_1.jpg Graphic Tales - Let's Make a Zine! D.B. Dowd, Charlie Hebdo: Pugnacious Elegy, Ulcer City Publications, 2016. Front and back cover. Scott Gericke, graphic designer. I wrote a sort of prose poem about the Charlie Hebdo attacks and "illustrated" it. The project is very zine-like: created for a specific purpose, opinionated, aggressively visual. Most of the type has been stripped out. I printed the run of this thing but have never systematically distributed it. (Write to me if you want one.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1510956141765-QQBR7Q9TMLQ0TLXTS7VB/Dowd_Hebdo_6.jpg Graphic Tales - Let's Make a Zine! Dowd, Pugnacious Elegy. 2016. There's a paragraph that goes on the left page about cartoonists--taggers, in effect--and how they "deface our satisfactions." Kilroy quote on the left, Philip Guston's painter (1975) quoted on the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1510955735797-LD7G5ELIN03GKO1N66XE/Dowd_Hebdo_2_16_web.jpg Graphic Tales - Let's Make a Zine! Dowd, Pugnacious Elegy. 2016. A tip of the hat to Le Charivari and Daumier's pear-king. These drawings were made in 2015. The project feels differently resonant in the Age of Trump (let it be brief). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1510955367310-JY7ERR643D6ZS6TSZSWM/zine_plan.jpeg Graphic Tales - Let's Make a Zine! Schematic, four-page pamphlet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1510955820307-6320INI8X2I1XE77F55S/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Let's Make a Zine! Dowd, Pugnacious Elegy. 2016. Did not strip out the text on this one. Concluding spread. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1510957841598-Q1I6UFOFFXBNQ0LB1MW8/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Let's Make a Zine! Eden Lewis, Home for the Holidays, 2015. I can't remember the precise title of this zine, and at the moment I also can't lay my hands on the artifact. It's hilarious; I can tell you that much. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1510957918612-HGXHCSBNCGNVIEJR9KQU/Lewis%2C+Eden+Zine+Project+3+CSI+FL+14+DBD_web.jpg Graphic Tales - Let's Make a Zine! Lewis, Holidays, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1510957966409-7FR1SNGW5OBQR9N6M4V3/Lewis%2C+Eden+Zine+Project+1+CSI+FL+14+DBD_web.jpg Graphic Tales - Let's Make a Zine! Lewis, Holidays, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1510958216882-NY6MJZSBPQ2I611T4JNM/Kim%2C+Sung+Sub+zine+project+1+CSI+FL14+DBD_web.jpg Graphic Tales - Let's Make a Zine! Sung Sub Kim, Apollo 11. 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1510958192358-CSNJVNYDUJXBUSZ7CM56/Kim%2C+Sung+Sub+zine+project+2+CSI+FL14+DBD_web.jpg Graphic Tales - Let's Make a Zine! Sung Sub Kim, Apollo 11. 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1510958256686-0MABWGVDFA4ZIZ4CFQ3X/Kim%2C+Sung+Sub+zine+project+3+CSI+FL14+DBD_web.jpg Graphic Tales - Let's Make a Zine! Sung Sub Kim, Apollo 11. 2015. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2017/10/22/blade-runner-2049-are-all-hobbesian-worlds-also-misogynistic-ones monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1508729009194-HADNOSXJTBBSYSLKG6JI/TMSEXvG.jpg Graphic Tales - Blade Runner 2049: Are All Hobbesian Worlds Also Misogynistic Ones? Painting credit unavailable, matte painting for Blade Runner (1982). Directed by Ridley Scott. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1508730983274-CS5AJTD20XAWOKMVJGNY/Screen+Shot+2017-10-22+at+10.55.28+PM.png Graphic Tales - Blade Runner 2049: Are All Hobbesian Worlds Also Misogynistic Ones? Film Still, Blade Runner 2049, (2017) directed by Denis Villeneuve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1508729475157-2I17O9SKKK5JHGC3U4QR/Screen+Shot+2017-10-22+at+10.27.28+PM.png Graphic Tales - Blade Runner 2049: Are All Hobbesian Worlds Also Misogynistic Ones? Film Still, Blade Runner 2049, (2017) directed by Denis Villeneuve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1508729684625-0HQ5N7ZDDKOJ0F10XOM1/4019561300000578-4485554-Slimed_Blade_Runner_2049_is_the_sequel_to_the_classic_Blade_Runn-m-110_1494280192931.jpg Graphic Tales - Blade Runner 2049: Are All Hobbesian Worlds Also Misogynistic Ones? Film Still, Blade Runner 2049, (2017) directed by Denis Villeneuve. . This is the scene referred to above. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1508729874611-MA3SP6NDJ2Y3KHM35YYJ/Robin-Wright-Blade-Runner-2049.jpg Graphic Tales - Blade Runner 2049: Are All Hobbesian Worlds Also Misogynistic Ones? Film Still, Blade Runner 2049, (2017) directed by Denis Villeneuve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1508730349368-8X7BVE8JWZWTXCAZAGN1/furiosa.jpg Graphic Tales - Blade Runner 2049: Are All Hobbesian Worlds Also Misogynistic Ones? Film Still of Charlize Theron as Furiosa. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), directed by George Miller. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1508728556225-P27ERI1E89A4YMOF8HR3/blade+runner+2049+blue+hair-1.gif Graphic Tales - Blade Runner 2049: Are All Hobbesian Worlds Also Misogynistic Ones? https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2017/10/21/words-of-wisdom-from-abroad-re-100-figures monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1508642112001-R9W7TWOR017IQPS32W7C/Screen+Shot+2017-10-21+at+10.07.52+PM.png Graphic Tales - Words of Wisdom From Abroad, re: 100 Figures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1508642149389-XJ7SFXFPWF4ZTPE0JCIU/Screen+Shot+2017-10-21+at+10.09.16+PM.png Graphic Tales - Words of Wisdom From Abroad, re: 100 Figures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1508642184224-AG6BQGHRYCVA0Q5B2IYQ/Screen+Shot+2017-10-21+at+10.08.29+PM.png Graphic Tales - Words of Wisdom From Abroad, re: 100 Figures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1508642211353-ULG0S5LCUJ99N9A3B324/Screen+Shot+2017-10-21+at+10.08.58+PM.png Graphic Tales - Words of Wisdom From Abroad, re: 100 Figures https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2017/7/10/back-to-the-source-in-fresh-clothes monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1499724262631-HCXFJMMDBTBEHBCJVO9X/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Graphic Tales Reconsidered Stuart Davis, Eggbeater No. 4, 1928. I have written about the relationship between modernism and the commercial tradition, manifested particularly in advertising and graphic design, but also in illustration and cartooning. Stuart Davis occupies a special position in that discussion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1499897606854-1VO5FFBDA6X0C34LDAW3/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Graphic Tales Reconsidered D.B. Dowd, Jazz Drummer, 2015. Brush drawing in ink. This guy played drums for the Lonnie Smith Quartet, who played in St. Louis that summer. He's here because I never really stop thinking about drawing. I wonder ceaselessly: what is the relationship between description and abstraction? I love this question. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2017/6/23/animated-filmmaker-ro-blechmans-ink-tank-archive-comes-to-stl monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1498248511288-EQYUMMZUNOR0610PBUOI/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Animated Filmmaker R.O. Blechman’s Ink Tank Archive Comes to STL R.B. Blechman, animated Alka-Seltzer commercial, 1967. A man and his stomach go to therapy together. The stomach is voiced by Gene Wilder at his neurotic best. Blechman's animation is delightful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1498248297811-KT0R58Q09PGTYF6TWUSB/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Animated Filmmaker R.O. Blechman’s Ink Tank Archive Comes to STL R.O. Blechman, The Soldier’s Tale, PBS, 1983 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1498248362467-VYS0WGAB783YAB09AMP3/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Animated Filmmaker R.O. Blechman’s Ink Tank Archive Comes to STL R.O. Blechman, The Soldier’s Tale, PBS, 1983 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1498249206369-KAMJB1B52M46C2WYXCAG/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Animated Filmmaker R.O. Blechman’s Ink Tank Archive Comes to STL Scott Gericke, MGHL identity, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1498248781502-AQLZJNJJYZ8N7NVBCSUJ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Animated Filmmaker R.O. Blechman’s Ink Tank Archive Comes to STL Jean-Philippe Delhomme, painted backdrop for Barney’s New York animated commercial, 1994 https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2017/4/4/craft-speed-and-payoff monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1497897236088-A6OHNPTZGYZ7CZ8T0ADE/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Lehigh Valley Animation D.B. Dowd and Noah MacMillan, Title Slate, animation still, Lehigh Valley project, 2017. I made the key drawing and Noah built the sky and the type, plus added color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1496295216346-2GHK3VVLCLMMBCXZRF7S/dbdowd_runway.png Graphic Tales - Lehigh Valley Animation D.B. Dowd and Noah MacMillan, Airport Scene, animation still, Lehigh Valley project, 2017. I drew the airplanes and Noah created the airport backdrop. I was skeptical that the red sky would work, but Noah nailed it. The animation moves and changing focus on this work very nicely, I think. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1497846806994-HPY69MYPNB39YCRH32U7/still15.jpg Graphic Tales - Lehigh Valley Animation D.B. Dowd, opening screen, Scenes from Starkdale, Ohio, 2006-07. Media contrast to the Lehigh Valley piece: all of the artwork for animation I produced between 2000 and 2007 was generated using vector translations from drawings (manual translations, not live traces.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1497899437780-YON1LXDHD39FF124OHZX/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Lehigh Valley Animation D.B. Dowd, Character Ensemble, Sam the Dog.com, 2001. Back in the day I produced online animation based on the characters I created for an illustrated serial that ran in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1997-99. Again, shown for media contrast: all vector. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1496295685547-BFCTMUWCUDGT08KEDVKC/dbdowd_quality_jobs.png Graphic Tales - Lehigh Valley Animation D.B. Dowd, Character, Lehigh Valley project. Brush drawing. This was not in my storyboard. Lori Dowd directed the animation session, and made a decision to pull characters from a later group scene and plop them into a frame with some set type to introduce variety toward the beginning of the piece. Several images, including the construction site and the aerial view of the airport (below) were moved to the back of the sequence, where they worked much better. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1497848574460-KJISNO1IC9GIMZK78UAR/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Lehigh Valley Animation D.B. Dowd, Disgruntled Citizens, animation still, Lehigh Valley project. This is the shot from which Lori snatched characters to generate the two new "head + type" shots, to even out the project. As noted above, a good call. All brush drawings. The lime green sort of turned into Steve Bannon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1497848049364-TSYVPX0AJUQ4CZP5SPKV/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Lehigh Valley Animation Noah MacMillan, Fedex Trucks, Lehigh Valley project still. Noah jumped in to draw and process this shot. The Lehigh Valley development included a huge Fedex Ground Hub facility. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1497848503102-CS4TK5CFIJ5DM1BZGXIO/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Lehigh Valley Animation D.B. Dowd and Noah MacMillan, animation still, Lehigh Valley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1497847089350-2N71NCPHTIP06KX2EAA4/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Lehigh Valley Animation D.B. Dowd, Aerial View, Airport, still from Lehigh Valley project. An abstracted presentation. The animated frame of this image, including the teeny little blue airplane taking off, is weirdly pleasant to watch (or so it has seemed to me). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1497900762650-CXU5F20JGT3YQPV8ALP5/Lehigh_Storyboard.jpg Graphic Tales - Lehigh Valley Animation D.B. Dowd, page 1, storyboard for Lehigh Valley project. Shot 3 got canned by the director during the edit; a character illustration with typeset dialogue was substituted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1496294756250-LNZU9NH4BOXQ6AWDMO6I/dbdowd_construction.png Graphic Tales - Lehigh Valley Animation D.B. Dowd, final art for Shot 2 from Lehigh Valley storyboard (moved later in sequence during edit). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1497900701016-9OXVW9QS3QSASHMWOTSA/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Lehigh Valley Animation Process materials, shot development for Lehigh Valley. The checked blue box means inked, the checked orange box means colored, and the checked red box means files prepped and uploaded to shared folder with the animation shop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1497900643000-DWLMLO76WV6OQJQ2QTYR/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Lehigh Valley Animation Process materials, documented pretty late in the production curve. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/30/lively-pictures-of-boring-things monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404144161780-PSYJIMT6A16HDJ3OSIPT/BetterHomes_HomeRepair_PowerTools.jpg Graphic Tales - Lively Pictures of "Boring" Things Lorraine Fox (uncredited), Power Tools, section divider illustration, Better Homes & Gardens Handyman's Book, Meredith Corporation, 1957. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404144197518-BFOPZDQYWFP9JZGPXLNP/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Lively Pictures of "Boring" Things Lorraine Fox (uncredited), cover illustration, Better Homes & Gardens Handyman's Book, Meredith Corporation, 1957. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404144211330-X0AHNBRKCG7E3AMK76I3/dividertabs009.jpg Graphic Tales - Lively Pictures of "Boring" Things Lorraine Fox (uncredited), Fastening Techniques, section divider illustration, BH & G Handyman's Book, 1957. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404144229118-1MDQST65P7570YGFADAJ/BetterHomes_HomeRepair_Windows%2Bdoors.jpg Graphic Tales - Lively Pictures of "Boring" Things Lorraine Fox (uncredited), Windows and Doors, section divider illustration, BH & G Handyman's Book, 1957. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404144260913-PQVRB3JWCL2U2DZ1BRVL/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Lively Pictures of "Boring" Things Lorraine Fox (uncredited), Walls and Floors, section divider illustration, BH & G Handyman's Book, 1957. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404144343800-SR8L7ODAOMF39IY5WYLK/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Lively Pictures of "Boring" Things Lorraine Fox (uncredited) Building Materials, section divider illustration, BH & G Handyman's Book, 1957. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404144293318-Y58MR7C6DFZSJZVC9LEG/BetterHomes_Handyman_Walls%2BFloors_det.png Graphic Tales - Lively Pictures of "Boring" Things Detail, Walls and Floors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404144367066-IJ68GD8B2S5CFUJIVDQZ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Lively Pictures of "Boring" Things Reference Tables, Wood Screws and Nails, section divider verso, BH & G Handyman's Book, 1957. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404144383216-IAUDHIHY76H00EMQZ74M/BetterHomes_HomeRepair_Index%2BGuy.jpg Graphic Tales - Lively Pictures of "Boring" Things Lorraine Fox (uncredited), General Index, section divider illustration, BH & G Handyman's Book, 1957. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/9/27/the-colonel-in-clover monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1470538096823-SDDO4ZRW7LK8PHI1V36D/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Godspeed, Father (A Colonel in Clover Update) David D. Dowd, Jr. Phil Masturzo, Akron Beacon Journal file photograph, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1470539286080-393Q5MXRK7JYKS6167GZ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Godspeed, Father (A Colonel in Clover Update) David D. Dowd, Jr., John C. "Jack" Dowd, and James F. Dowd. David and Jack are looking like some sharp-dressed men. Jim appears downright pugnacious. Family snapshot taken by David D. Dowd, Sr. or Martha Combrink Dowd, late 1940s. Shady Shores Resort, Dowagiac, Michigan. My cousin Deb Clinebell (née Dowd, daughter to Jim and Betty) sent this to me yesterday via a text message. I think she re-photographed a snapshot in an album. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1470588217426-Y0JHFUEWRJVMDDVQSAW7/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Godspeed, Father (A Colonel in Clover Update) David and Jack both attended the College of Wooster and Michigan Law. Jack was a partner at Squire Sanders & Dempsey, and a major figure in Ohio and Cleveland public project financing. When Jack died, Dad created a book project to memorialize him, which we designed in my shop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1470590210206-4NIKMT5MPFATV2C0D60Y/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Godspeed, Father (A Colonel in Clover Update) Jim Dowd went to Cornell and Yale Divinity. He had a distinguished career in the Presbyterian Church. We produced a volume of Jim's sermons, which for which I made illustrations. This angel does double duty today, ushering Dad along. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1411964979996-RACRPGYPQQD0FZX641SF/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Godspeed, Father (A Colonel in Clover Update) The Original. Daguerrotype of Colonel David Dudley Dowd (1806-1888.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1470587865514-OZ9FMNJ597R2DZ703HWY/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Godspeed, Father (A Colonel in Clover Update) Medina County, Ohio. Note Seville, bottom center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1411965124228-YYH2K2QRHB0TGWFROML5/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Godspeed, Father (A Colonel in Clover Update) Photograph of the Dowd monument in Mound Hill Cemetery, in Seville, Ohio. Medina County. I got this photograph and the two historical ones off www.findgrave.com when I entered DDD1's name. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1411965082242-P168OTYEJ73NCW894BUE/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Godspeed, Father (A Colonel in Clover Update) The top-hatted colonel standing next to his monument. He looks older. Seems likely to have been shot around 1880. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1411917290061-BKMHAM4A6F7KDVVBFQIM/geology_ohio_1873_cover+2_sm.jpg Graphic Tales - Godspeed, Father (A Colonel in Clover Update) The Geological Survey of Ohio. Published 1873. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1412834142739-81CJFBX6TGQ54NVRNLHH/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Godspeed, Father (A Colonel in Clover Update) Inscription signature, Colonel D. D. Dowd, in the leaf of a family copy of The Geological Survey of Ohio. 1873. My father's namesake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1411917364972-5X3DWSLJ16VRVRGEM8DW/geology_ohio_1873_summit_cty.jpeg Graphic Tales - Godspeed, Father (A Colonel in Clover Update) The Geology of Summit County. The yellow, pink and brown colors are printed inks; the orange is hand-applied watercolor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1411918419332-MJFQZC4W4UPNZYNHFEOL/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Godspeed, Father (A Colonel in Clover Update) Map Showing LInes of Junction of the Cincinnati Group (near Dayton, Ohio). All three map colors are letterpress: citron, rust and baby blue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1411918567970-WWMN389J6LSE8BJTMVV4/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Godspeed, Father (A Colonel in Clover Update) Detail of period hand-lettering. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1411918495431-5CLJRYAPZH42SW09R87Z/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Godspeed, Father (A Colonel in Clover Update) South of Dayton, near the Mad River, note Lunatic Asylum. Be thankful that you live in the 21st century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1411918681831-DIIGHWVOKJTQ6X7TGQQC/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Godspeed, Father (A Colonel in Clover Update) The four-leaf clover stuck between pages 562 and 563. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1411918730207-6HUOL8WRZC2BFA4WR3L8/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Godspeed, Father (A Colonel in Clover Update) Detail, four-leaf clover. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2016/7/5/arguing-for-aristotle-icon-talk-bibliography monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1467777103359-CK5DLTA918TQX71U3E8M/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - ICON Talk: Bibliography for Liberal Arts + Illustration Austin Briggs, Flash Gordon Sunday strip. December 21, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1467777185743-RZJ3PQBLRSA6M32Y9VQJ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - ICON Talk: Bibliography for Liberal Arts + Illustration Ivan Brunetti, New Yorker cover illustration, November 1, 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1467777448870-AHBREY4TLEQ71E7T5HYX/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - ICON Talk: Bibliography for Liberal Arts + Illustration Constantin Guys, Sketches in Madrid. The Illustrated London News, July 28, 1856. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1467777582599-INW4SK5LNPHGTOQM0I8Q/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - ICON Talk: Bibliography for Liberal Arts + Illustration Rebecca Sugar, Steven Universe, 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1467777832850-1S1UYW1LRNP1LQOXCCMC/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - ICON Talk: Bibliography for Liberal Arts + Illustration Ethel Franklin Betts, cover illustration, Fairy Tales from Grimm, Edward Stern & Company, 1909. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1467778160770-ZE1FF66N8BC4IGEL93JC/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - ICON Talk: Bibliography for Liberal Arts + Illustration Neysa McMein, Self Portrait cover illustration for McCall's, June 1932. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1467778701017-AUV0KWDZKBBME3G7OR3Y/Shahn_crowd.jpg Graphic Tales - ICON Talk: Bibliography for Liberal Arts + Illustration Ben Shahn, Crowd, n.d. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1467778820968-4F27REQZRR2SKN14NUUU/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - ICON Talk: Bibliography for Liberal Arts + Illustration D.B. Dowd, cover illustration, Spartan Holiday No. 3: French Lesson. Summer 2016. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2016/6/3/jaleen-grove-postdoctoral-fellow-at-mghl-and-washington-university monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1464987023945-NW32AARM8X3XLO3ATE2X/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Jaleen Grove Post-Doctoral Fellow at MGHL / Washington University Oscar Cahén, cover illustration, Maclean's Magazine, October 15, 1951. Jaleen Grove has worked at the Cahén archive, among other important projects. She has just published a monograph on Cahén's work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1464986744447-MVWC2DYYJZ30B3JVQK12/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Jaleen Grove Post-Doctoral Fellow at MGHL / Washington University Dr. Jaleen Grove https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/11/harry-and-alfred-make-pictures-of-people monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402510334308-02DNUPUFH23IQ9MXV7C5/alparker_11_origh_nd_727.jpg Graphic Tales - Harry and Alfred Make Pictures of People Al Parker, Restaurant fight breaking out in front of jungle wallpaper, watercolor(?) and gouache with additions in dry media, date and citation unavailable, circa 1940. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402510372624-Y4MKV38R7QGEN8YJIIZ8/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Harry and Alfred Make Pictures of People Parker, Be-robed man with plumed knight’s helmet speaking with woman, watercolor(?) and gouache with additions in dry media, date and citation unavailable, circa 1940. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402510400772-QUAKA97JF7XK9JBMJIF3/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Harry and Alfred Make Pictures of People Parker, An emblem as famous as the people it serves, two-page spread advertisement for American Airlines, circa 1959. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402510436586-6BP9K0DBHF6GNYK12S5U/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Harry and Alfred Make Pictures of People Harry Beckhoff, “Excuse me sir, but it’s the truth!” Collier's Weekly, April 5, 1941 [all of these Beckhoff images are fiction illustrations published in Collier's]. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402510482654-O300NQCTWXR1YCZNT7FW/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Harry and Alfred Make Pictures of People Beckhoff, “Calfs are seldom house broke,” June 12, 1941. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402510511962-9D7JWYJNW56UUHUGT73D/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Harry and Alfred Make Pictures of People Beckhoff, Miss Wilson gasped at Peter March, June 1, 1939. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402510540075-QWURTS2Z3YK3KBHD1PYC/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Harry and Alfred Make Pictures of People Beckhoff, He held is beloved drum aside, March 4, 1939. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402510565904-5AWJYEV0TUA5L4N99HQQ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Harry and Alfred Make Pictures of People Beckhoff, We did a bit of firsting stuff together, April 9, 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402510600279-40LY7TJA18SQ6RA36N11/Beckhoff-colliers-030141+copy.jpg Graphic Tales - Harry and Alfred Make Pictures of People Beckhoff, "Boys, Boys!" March 1, 1941. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402510633962-ORAIS312311H6FFIIJ87/Beckhoff%2C+%E2%80%9CI+smell+Nassau+in+May%2C%E2%80%9D+June+17%2C+1939. Graphic Tales - Harry and Alfred Make Pictures of People Beckhoff, “I smell Nassau in May,” June 17, 1939. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402510656615-CIL62WL5MME9AASBDIHH/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Harry and Alfred Make Pictures of People Beckhoff, “Mr. Lethbridge,” cried Sally, “meet my fiancé!”, January 8, 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1402510687057-PBZBD9CD09NR05NKOEAV/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Harry and Alfred Make Pictures of People Beckhoff, A Sailor pulled in Two Directions, January 16, 1937. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/welcome-to-the-neighborhood-race-rockwell-and-new-hampshire monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403803239807-O4RY6RB1CXGEL7EXZ0TL/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Welcome to the Neighborhood: Race, Rockwell, and New Hampshire Norman Rockwell, New Kids in the Neighborhood, illustration for “Negro in the Suburbs,” by Jack Star, Look, May 16, 1967 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403803283037-30WPKPR68VX1BF73LMYQ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Welcome to the Neighborhood: Race, Rockwell, and New Hampshire Rita Marshall, (detail of) cover design for American Chronicles: the Art of Norman Rockwell, 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403803313360-QPL07R90MLNBQSP4KQQO/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Welcome to the Neighborhood: Race, Rockwell, and New Hampshire (Left) Sol Sender graphic design, Obama logotype, 2007; (Right) Charlie Neibergall, AP photograph on the evening of the Iowa caucuses, January 3, 2008. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403803340686-458HPYK3P94PGVNA1NGG/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Welcome to the Neighborhood: Race, Rockwell, and New Hampshire Gustave Courbet, The Stonebreakers, 1849 (destroyed in WW2) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403803381738-M0TKB39N9MM9F1B2UNR0/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Welcome to the Neighborhood: Race, Rockwell, and New Hampshire Rockwell, The Problem We All Live With, Look, June 14, 1964; the image shows Ruby Bridges between four Marshals on her way into her first day at an all-white school in New Orleans in 1960 (today, Ruby Bridges sits on the NRM board) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403803408506-9XXGE0R9I2COHIT12RJZ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Welcome to the Neighborhood: Race, Rockwell, and New Hampshire Hector Rondon, news photograph, Aid from the Padre, taken June 2, 1962, at Puerto Cabello Naval Base, Caracas during a revolt against the Venezuelan government https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403803484858-7TNBBIKJOKJ7P8CLZQUD/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Welcome to the Neighborhood: Race, Rockwell, and New Hampshire Norman Rockwell, double-page tearsheet for “Southern Justice,” Look, June 29, 1965 https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2016/2/22/figures-abstraction-and-description-circa-1925 monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1456205352699-4Y4IMAO2830QYELEVMQV/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Figurative Abstraction and Description: Art Deco Coles Phillips, The Magic Hour, illustration for Oneida Community Plate advertisement, I924. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1456204912822-2KQMPUHMD8VY906BAN6J/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Figurative Abstraction and Description: Art Deco Coles Phillips, Magazine advertisement for Holeproof Hosiery, 1923. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1456204188262-LJP7LB6XAQQVYPCF8YMG/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Figurative Abstraction and Description: Art Deco Eric Gill, Illustrated Initial Capital, Matthew 7:28, from The Four Gospels, published by Cockerel Press, 1931. (Note: I have long admired this book. As I was preparing this post, I took a peek to see what a copy of the original 600 copy run would cost, if I were to save my nickels to acquire one. Answer: a gigantic pile of nickels. $22,000 will get you a copy. I think I'll satisfy myself with looking at the one in our rare books collection! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1456201879252-6YG31M6QP49AFT2EXP87/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Figurative Abstraction and Description: Art Deco Paul Manship, Dancer and Gazelles, 1916. At the Smithsonian Institution. A three-dimensional ensemble, with a very strong 2-dimensional profile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1456202076728-ZS0OQXKODTD4M7FDTCWU/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Figurative Abstraction and Description: Art Deco The Reeses (Emily Shaw and Walter O.), Detail, Williams Talc Advertisement, Ladies Home Journal, May 1919. From the Walt Reed Illustration Archive, Modern Graphic History Library, Washington University in St. Louis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1456202182835-R73QDGD3WQLZLM3CVOH4/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Figurative Abstraction and Description: Art Deco The Reeses (Emily Shaw and Walter O.), Detail, Warner Corsets Advertisement, Ladies Home Journal, October 1922. From the Walt Reed Archive, MGHL. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1456201743903-F8FTD68205HOXXZT80QT/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Figurative Abstraction and Description: Art Deco Paul Manship, Acteon #1, 1925. Also at the Smithsonian. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1456201801197-MLWARACJQMLDBOJZCIUP/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Figurative Abstraction and Description: Art Deco Lee Lawrie, Wisdom, 1933. Bas Relief Panel on adjoining planes, with text. Entrance to main building to Rockefeller Center. I can't find a precise address, but it's tucked back in the complex, off 5th, south of 50th street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1456201843440-TB0BVDV6A6NJVYAF85XR/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Figurative Abstraction and Description: Art Deco Lee Lawrie, Progress, 1937. Bas-Relief Panel, 49th Street Entrance to Rockefeller Center, Midtown Manhattan. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/thickets-screens-scrims monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403819516158-F0HG72EJVHUR3MI9FFSJ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Thickets, Screens, Scrims Robert Weaver, Man fleeing at dusk, Cosmopolitan, 1962. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403819531791-HJDV1GFGNOHDY1LGGI2I/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Thickets, Screens, Scrims Robert Weaver, Advocate, Cosmopolitan, 1958. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403819563832-PDMBMEUOECND5A81YIRI/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Thickets, Screens, Scrims Bob Peak, Stakeout, Cosmopolitan, 1958. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1455553239876-S7ZNM8UWSBT5M66RPKGN/Sasek-NewYork-watertowers.jpg Graphic Tales - Thickets, Screens, Scrims Miroslav Sasek, This is New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1455553376018-CY4EJB65Z0DU6AGYMOBN/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Thickets, Screens, Scrims Miroslav Sasek, This is New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1455553414250-9DZ4LJA8Y0N3MJCK9ULP/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Thickets, Screens, Scrims Miroslav Sasek, This is San Fransisco. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1455553266847-O3NGLQC1ECYTQ67AJPU9/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Thickets, Screens, Scrims Miroslav Sasek, This is London. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2016/2/7/of-billkens-and-brush-drawings monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1455201590132-EVO1MYG66LEUVGL1ZZ5N/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Of Billikens and Plaid-Patterned Elephants The new Saint Louis University Billikens mark, designed by Olson, a brand shop in Minneapolis. 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454881756791-A9FEAOU1SS7UM8F3RII2/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Of Billikens and Plaid-Patterned Elephants The last iteration of the Billiken, here given three-dimensional form as a courtside costume. Photography credit unavailable (SLU Athletics, 2012). I wrote in 2010: Look at that meandering mouth, the blank yet slightly cross-eyed gaze. Doesn't he look like he's trying to pass a sobriety test? Does he have any hope of intimidating an opponent? Of course not–he's trying to touch his nose! On the positive side, he's got enviable sneakers, and his italicized SLU seems slightly aggressive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454908813230-251MJJNQK58K64WAQOD1/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Of Billikens and Plaid-Patterned Elephants Florence Pretz' patent application drawing for her Billiken, 1908. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454909703418-2F6RZVJSW1YG85HJSQPJ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Of Billikens and Plaid-Patterned Elephants Revised Saint Louis University wordmark by Olson, a brand shop in Minneapolis. 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454880783935-FW2GJ12VAE1JQR0WN9FQ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Of Billikens and Plaid-Patterned Elephants The new Saint Louis University Billiken, designed by Olson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1455202249062-7RQGUA8Y47GLRWRVKYHZ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Of Billikens and Plaid-Patterned Elephants Designer Unknown, Toppie, the Top Value Stamps elephant mascot, circa 1957. In Meet Mr. Product, Dotz and Husain, 2003. Toppie was drawn by a person, not a machine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1455202583941-H7CNYPQ0GYLZG9LYVN31/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Of Billikens and Plaid-Patterned Elephants Toppie on a lunchbox. From an appreciation of Top Value ads, here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1455202777100-20TTJTIR82UM2JDQVRFP/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Of Billikens and Plaid-Patterned Elephants Repeating. Note role of the gray. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454909249654-IFZLF1DHEWNZWGZ6X8G6/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Of Billikens and Plaid-Patterned Elephants Grace Drayton, Dolly Dingle Paper Dolls with Outfits. 1930. Grace (profiled here on my Illustration History blog) was one of the creators of characters associated with products and what would become known as “brands.” Starting in comics at the Philadelphia Press, in 1905 she created “The Campbell’s Soup Kids” who bore a powerful resemblance to characters she created for the rest of her career. She produced these Dolly Dingle paper-cutouts for Pictorial Review as a running gig. Her “kids” were of the same generation of Pretz’ Billken. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2016/2/1/evening-lectures-february-march-2016 monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454365559192-1JKBU45RH5MT4JPS8JSH/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Evening Lectures, February-March 2016 Advertising illustration by Coles Phillips for the Overland Roadster, 1915. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/fancy-type-imagey-letterforms monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403820326848-RZJ0393VE3SQX0WZWD3D/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Fancy Type & Imagey Letterforms Stark Brothers, Clerical Taylors, printed by John Baxter & Son, Artistic Printers, Edinburgh, Scotland; letterpress-printed advertisement 1882, reprinted in The Handy Book of Artistic Printing by Doug Clouse and Angela Voulangas, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403820337531-5Z7TY3C3RFVLIJCDQSPE/Type_Specimen_Chwast_Bestial_Bold.jpg Graphic Tales - Fancy Type & Imagey Letterforms Seymour Chwast, Bestial Bold, from "Push Pin Graphic No. 83" issued 1980, reproduced in the Chronicle Books compilation, The Push Pin Graphic, published in 2004, written by Chwast and edited by Steve Heller and Martin Venezky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403820358225-CDFVRJYK43M3UMZBH9TC/Type_Specimen_HOckney.jpg Graphic Tales - Fancy Type & Imagey Letterforms David Hockney, "The Letter N" from Hockney's Alphabet, published in 1991 by Random House in association with the American Friends of the Aids Crisis Trust https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1453908082318-XFYP97ZEUK5JWARPH4FC/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Fancy Type & Imagey Letterforms From the Ship of Fools, 1494. Sebastian Brandt. Annotated citation to come. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1453908176362-OLHUUGB534CF8H3C3T8U/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Fancy Type & Imagey Letterforms A late medieval/early modern calendar. Citation to come. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403820388023-9U5FGYY9PPTARIISF3JM/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Fancy Type & Imagey Letterforms Morton Goldsholl and John Weber of Goldsholl Associates, Holiday Delight Baking Company Logotype, 1965, reproduced in American Trademark Designs by Barbara Baer Capitman, published by Dover Books, 1976 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403820412983-J8BGEBJJ8EEIXHC5PH5B/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Fancy Type & Imagey Letterforms Fancy Typefaces, 1878-1895, Artistic Printing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403820427137-11YF4Y7SRKE9BTHHYZ06/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Fancy Type & Imagey Letterforms Fancy Typefaces, 1878-1895, Artistic Printing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403820661606-Z0HHI1P877V15HJP8918/Playing_Cards_French_Revolutionary_Era_left_half.jpg Graphic Tales - Fancy Type & Imagey Letterforms Revolutionary Era Question and Answer Cards, French, reproduced in Antique Playing Cards; A Pictorial Treasury, by Henry Rene D'Allemange, first published in 1906 and reissued by Dover in 1996 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403820702099-AQYYYSFGT19KJ9SMKYO4/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Fancy Type & Imagey Letterforms Mark Todd, Bad Asses book cover design, Blue Q, 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1421081738608-KRJVL0ON9WVLQ8GC94RV/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Fancy Type & Imagey Letterforms Milt Caniff, wordmark for Terry and the Pirates, the comic strip that ran from 1934 to 1973 (although Caniff left the strip at the end of 1946 to create Steve Canyon). From a Sunday strip, 1944. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2016/1/22/08lhej86qtrzklcuzue2y0cwbgzymk monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1453484649140-P9PZDVFABG9ZBW5KGDSS/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Clocking In Coming and going. Animation still from "Don't Give Up the Sheep," Warner Brothers Studios, 1953. Directed by Chuck Jones. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2015/10/30/on-designing-a-project-looking-ahead monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1446305950601-2QVBULTJFLM2FD6SYH6N/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - On Designing a Project: Looking Ahead D.B. Dowd, working scan from Massillon v. St.Vincent-St.Mary's (unfinished); illustration for Spartan Holiday No. 3 (upcoming). This project, a collaboration with Scott Gericke, ably assisted by intern Sara Wong, occupied may September and awaits completion in December. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1446307957367-RE617P8U5NKJWP5HMMWZ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - On Designing a Project: Looking Ahead D.B. Dowd, detail, Baroque Self-Portrait, from Spartan Holiday No. 3. Yup: Professor Red in a powdered wig. Can't wait to get this project out. I think it's the best Spartan so far. Set in Paris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1446306627733-1IYMR10O457SHTV3F33M/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - On Designing a Project: Looking Ahead D.B. Dowd, Japanese Banana, Jardin des Plantes, Paris. 2013.I spent October holed up in an underground bunker (on a TVA lake in Alabama) finishing a book I've been pondering for a dozen years, began writing in 2009, and substantially completed during my Parisian interlude, summer 2013. The last step was to expand, resolve and button up the project. Stick Figures: Symbolic Drawing in the Digital Age will see print in the next year or so: details to come. This drawing figures in Chapter 6. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1446306350848-QBPU3EQO8JMH7X7N8R7I/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - On Designing a Project: Looking Ahead Austin Briggs, Sketch for New York Railroads Advertisement, circa 1955. Reproduced in Stick Figures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1446307287571-31XW8N3HCH0N09M9RJFF/peckcl_ALadyOfKingArthur%27sCourt_Sterling_.FrontistPiecetiff_sm.jpg Graphic Tales - On Designing a Project: Looking Ahead Clara Elsene Peck, Frontispiece illustration, A Lady of King Arthur's Court, by Sara Hawks Sterling, G.W. Jacobs & Co. 1907. Since last spring, working with Eden Lewis, above mentioned Sara Wong and now Abhi Alwar, I have been working on a curatorial project focusing on women in American illustration, drawing on the Walt Reed Collection at the Modern Graphic History Library, also pulling selectively from my own collection. This project is burbling along; I think Abhi and I will have it ready to go live online in the next six weeks. Stay tuned. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2015/10/29/nonfiction-illustrated-2016-5 monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1446176299916-XA81VG0Q5NQDZIYE8CK4/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 5 Seth, cover design, It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken. 1996. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1446179195511-8VMDUPI4FHH5RR8IUU44/Looking-at-Lincoln-cover.jpg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 5 Maira Kalman, cover illustration, Looking at Lincoln. 2012. Lincoln has never gotten the bubble-gum treatment, til now, til that pink. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1446176378441-S73AQ3JLZ8WJMAM7JYOI/seth-weaken-p88.jpg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 5 Seth, interior page, It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken. 1996. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1446176435483-Y0DF172UQGK6RVZNWV85/seth-weaken-p90.jpg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 5 Seth, interior page, It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken. 1996. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1446308512527-2LDCGFBQ3SQ6O89O63MJ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 5 John Hendrix. John Brown: His Fight for Freedom. Abrams, 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1446176569585-60U6WPGJZZHI4RKPSCHC/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 5 Kate Williamson, At a Crossroads: Between a Rock and my Parents' Place. Princeton Architectural Press, 2008. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1446176975426-IC0X7VJPCA0B3ZPAAWK2/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 5 Williamson, Crossroads. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1446176660748-N4COAV9DEY6JZ3F0BIOZ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 5 Willamson, Crossroads. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2015/10/28/nonfiction-illustrated-2016-4 monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1446011844261-72RTWOIULCSC0L7F5YS8/Emslie_Strand_London_Longitude_smaller.jpg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 4 John Emslie, designer. The Longitude. Instructional card, for classroom sharing. Published by Reynolds & Sons. London, circa 1850. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1446011009691-ZP538QYW1A5BF1B959FS/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 4 Opening title sequence shot (Cinemascope proportions), Toot Whistle Plunk & Boom, animated short Walt Disney Studios, directed by Ward Kimball and Charles A. Nichols, 1953. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1446012224281-EPEOUU8ZUO9NIK10OEH6/Meteorology.jpg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 4 John Emslie, illustrator/engraver. Diagram of Meteorology: Displaying the Various Phenomena of the Atmosphere. (Extensive textual content on reverse of card. London, 1846. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1446010614852-ZCSO1J9HA41PEBHNZ6GR/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 4 Richard Scarry, Title Page, Cars and Trucks, 1951. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1446187356755-C8GNK9P9Z4F1A3L1RBVX/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 4 Snazzy hat + jacket, no? Lovely coat as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1446010567066-YTS9FWBNQXN3ZPGKVWRG/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 4 Scarry, Boarding the Bus, Cars and Trucks, 1951. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1446187447610-JSDA8IG0AIWHVHCCZ819/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 4 Scarry, Ladies at the Grocery Store, Cars and Trucks. In the heyday of postwar affluence. Enjoy while it lasts, people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1446010642317-IIXK6AMVQ2SKXXEO150N/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 4 Richard Scarry, Dumping Coal to Subterranean Coal Rooms and Furnaces, Cars and Trucks. Not that long ago, folks. I remember a coal chute in my grandparents' house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1446011874859-P2G2OI6ZSNB4PH12FPXW/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 4 John Emslie, Transparent Solar System. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1446011901457-2IV1GNQCH4TTVR2JZDVJ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1446011922468-WK62Y08UPMD36HCYSLN4/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 4 John Emslie, detail, Transparent Solar System. Note that the colored sun and planets or conveyed trough translucent colored papers. When you hold card up to the light, the planets glow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1446011043650-A1S53QEW0C5WU4XYYMAE/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 4 Toot Whistle, classroom shot with Professor Owl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1446011113866-68EQHDNJ6UUX8D38H773/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 4 Toot Whistle, cavemen discover musical instrument categories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1446011144534-6AUERE44VZUQJ8HFVDNC/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 4 Toot Whistle, Jazz club interior. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1446011176330-MNE5LUN18N9QA4OEZ9TD/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 4 Toot Whistle, Blackface minstrelsy quotation, (regrettable). https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2015/10/27/nonfiction-illustrated-2016-3 monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1445971864653-4ILL98UWLPPDY30PNX0I/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 3 Austin Briggs Highway Billboards with Cotton Pickers, 1965. Oil pastel and oil paint on board, Published in “The Fast-changing South,” written by George B. Leonard, Look, November 16, 1965. Walt Reed Illustration Archive, Modern Graphic HIstory Library, Washington University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1445972001751-KTUULP1ZT2I7D3T7DHWA/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 3 Robert Weaver, Drawing from Spring Training Sketchbook, 1962. Research for “Spring Training: Fresh Starts and Old Hopes,” Sports Illustrated, March 5, 1962. Robert Weaver Collection, MGHL. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1445972263250-8FH0BHVID0Z4VOSGQOGF/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 3 Al Parker, Girl on Boat, Monaco Grand Prix, Sports Illustrated, May 11, 1964. This was not in the show, but the crazy cut up photo collage that Parker used to invent it almost was. The space is totally made up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1445974346770-N1EDMM3914PWR66C4TF9/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 3 Robert Andrew Parker, The Private Strategy of Bethlehem Steel, cover illustration Fortune Magazine, April 1962. A different Parker than the one directly above, whose work is also in the Modern Graphic History Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1445972079465-L3I5RE1481718RN39C5Y/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 3 Cliff Condak. Tom Hawkins Driving. Paint, pastel and graphite. Made for (but unpublished in) “Big Men on the Move,” Sports Illustrated, October 28, 1963. MGHL. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1445972576377-RLYWRJJTB032IEY6818B/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 3 Joel Meyerowitz, New Mexico. 1972. Meyerowitz was inspired by Robert Frank's street work, and went on to make his own. He was a pioneer of color photography in art practice, when people (bizarrely, to think of it now) were snooty about it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1445971740945-R00YA9D000GCDJ7H2KI9/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 3 Leslie Ding, Cooking Clinic, cover illustration, Fox in the Field No. 1, published by the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/nonfiction-illustrated-bibliography-2 monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1445914931138-6J8TVDW4KZ2NMJ48TVJR/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 2 Christian Northeast, Prayer Requested, 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1445914977990-NRLAGPPKFA7V2XRSM6VE/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 2 Northeast, Prayer Requested cover. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403818876126-P6UJ0W1WTOF3JBDZPAWH/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 2 Mark Todd, Badasses: Darth Vader. 2008. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403818911792-65KBQ77RKW0TIRCBF3HV/BadAsses_cover.jpg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 2 Todd, Badasses, cover. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403818930541-MMSVVKLLECR2PWWMK5P8/snake-plissken.jpg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 2 Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken, in Escape from New York. 1981. Directed by John Carpenter. (And shot in St. Louis.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403818967332-0W7D7IYQJ9GE9OSPSSLZ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 2 Todd, Badassess: Arnold Schwarzenegger as theTerminator, and a Gremlin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1445915449584-Q9N1MVNCU73GU8WG09H9/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 2 Northeast, Prayers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1445915486467-E8B3V8ETNSKQPIWWV1CY/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 2 Northeast, Prayers. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/nonfiction-illustrated-bibliography-1 monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1445910109985-CVJ45TUEZJ8SO1PC67JN/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 1 Pascal Blanchet, White Rapids, 2007. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1445910196719-MJD1XZMNBROO89BODD0V/images-pop-jazz-pascal-blanchet-L-2.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 1 Blanchet, White Rapids. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403818458851-LUE79HXKS0R2QNCW9HSZ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 1 Miroslav Sasek, View of Picadilly Square. From This is London. 1959. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403818486449-64TXDN0PF2GAB6SBLFA5/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 1 Rea Irvin, "The coffee was hot, both ways." From Snoot if You Must, 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403818509381-5DJBP3N0RJHARGF6Z55Y/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 1 Sasek, title page, This is London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403818531894-QL3HIVAMHSPHYKF6Z1M5/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 1 Title page, Snoot if You Must. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403818557437-AR4FYFLNNYMTABS4R3XP/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 1 Irvin, Snoot. 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403818588665-SLDDBPVHCBEXWD280BU7/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 1 Irvin, Snoot. 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403818618439-EURFL9E4ZAAPYW0MEVJU/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 1 Irvin, detail, Snoot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403818641475-BC64JGO6O9N7BNLTIF5G/Sasek_London_FrontCover_low-res.jpg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 1 Sasek, cover illustration, This is London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403818678375-WY2T2MK032MXF5RMF5KT/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 1 Sakek, interior spread, London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403818702319-P7HV1MS29Y5G247R4D4B/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 1 Sasek, Interior spread. Man with fish-carrying hat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1445910282943-WX5AYIA1T4B5Z635YRHF/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Nonfiction Illustrated 2016 1 Blanchet, White Rapids. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2015/5/26/pugnacious-elegie-lgie-pugnace monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1432674141397-LUASETL5QL8G8C9VVCYX/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Pugnacious Elegie / Élégie Pugnace D.B. Dowd, "Pugnacious Elegy", Rotland Inquiry No. 1: Charlie Hebdo, 2015. The left half of the opening two-page spread. The right half of that spread is below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1432674286489-6N7QNNMG2277QZO4L6MG/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Pugnacious Elegie / Élégie Pugnace Dowd, "Pugnacious Elegy", right half of opening spread. The citation text at the bottom of this page reads: Drawings after historical scrawlings from left to right across this spread: Honoré Daumier’s Robert Macaire, 1836; Stéphane Charbonnier in CH, 2012; Fremont culture petroglyph, Nine Mile Canyon, Utah, circa 1000 CE; Philip Guston’s Painter, 1975. The picture frame is my device, the desktop memento mori. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1432683294650-QZF1YIEHMO7L64T0ZZEJ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Pugnacious Elegie / Élégie Pugnace Dowd, "Pugnacious Elegy," left half of the second spread. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1432683359131-IIP8K6VYICALFAPF53JP/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Pugnacious Elegie / Élégie Pugnace Dowd, "Elegy," right half of second spread. The citation text at the bottom (which I fear has been cut off in the printed version): Above, hat tip to Daumier’s pear-king; drawing after Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising’s Bosko, the first stock player at Warner Brothers animation, 1929. On the final page of this essay, drawing after St. Denis group from the left portal, Notre Dame de Paris (19th century reconstruction). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1432683461097-AJTQWM58NPM0L14YH9QX/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Pugnacious Elegie / Élégie Pugnace Dowd, "Elegy," third spread. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1432683525559-D2C9D816LWT7KD8RAHYY/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Pugnacious Elegie / Élégie Pugnace Dowd, "Elegy," fourth and final spread. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2015/5/24/pugnacious-elegy-charlie-hebdo monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1432581974635-33M339WC1UTMTHYV9CLF/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Rotland Inquiry No. 1: Charlie Hebdo Rotland Inquiry No. 1: Charlie Hebdo. 2015. Edited by Ryan Standfest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1432581909843-SNMRK6WNYONE73AO34H9/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Rotland Inquiry No. 1: Charlie Hebdo Details of pages from Rotland Inquiry No. 1. The center panel shows a fragment of the first page of my own "Pugnacious Elegy," an illustrated essay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1432586883876-LJB36314ZJXSB34ML30G/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Rotland Inquiry No. 1: Charlie Hebdo Art Spiegelman, Maus, 1991. Spiegelman's feature in Rotland Inquiry No. 1 revives the mouse persona to deliver a nuanced take on the Hebdo killings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1432582046053-1I27I2HBH9GP6OK647I7/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Rotland Inquiry No. 1: Charlie Hebdo Honore Daumier, Robert Macaire, Shareholder, published in Le Charivari, May 13, 1838. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1432582811365-2RG108QMLUZYK74JHGLA/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Rotland Inquiry No. 1: Charlie Hebdo Garry Trudeau, book cover illustration, Doonesbury and the Art of G.B. Trudeau by Brian Walker, Yale University Press, 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1432585833688-AL3Q2NV715B8GSLEHP1D/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Rotland Inquiry No. 1: Charlie Hebdo Heather Corcoran, cover design, Strips, Toons and Bluesies: Essays in Comics and Culture, D.B. Dowd and Todd Hignite, editors, Princeton Architectural Press, 2006. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1432582003724-AJEJ3OMWCWR8V12WT27I/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Rotland Inquiry No. 1: Charlie Hebdo Walt Kelly, Pogo Sunday strip, circa 1955. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1432586418982-OGNJSDPSUGJNVL0J7IFC/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Rotland Inquiry No. 1: Charlie Hebdo Sir Leslie Matthew Ward (pen name "Spy") Caricature of Finley Peter Dunne in Vanity Fair, July 27, 1905. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1432587213179-69ZJ0CDB186I89TCWRCW/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Rotland Inquiry No. 1: Charlie Hebdo D.B. Dowd, spread from Trouble in Trapper City: Sam the Dog Revisited 1, 2014. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2015/5/18/on-sarah-birdsall-the-divine-miss-s-retires monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1431959970427-DCOU5ABJJLEVXPJ67EOT/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - On Sarah Birdsall: The Divine Miss S. Retires Sarah Birdsall with her students, circa 1998. Photograph by Stan Strembicki. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1431960673495-Y1LGNUH80Q5FTMQ7EWVQ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - On Sarah Birdsall: The Divine Miss S. Retires Photograph by Stan Strembicki https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2015/3/26/painted-wooden-modernism monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1427386687574-5EX61Q9MC9WSYDQ381TN/playskool_puzzle_tractor2_sm.jpg Graphic Tales - Painted Wooden Modernism Designer unknown, Construction Site, Playskool Wooden Puzzle, circa 1950. Look at this thing! An essay in shape, line and edge. Lots of saturated color bracketed by black and white. I might add that these things do not have dotted lines demarcating where the pieces go in the recessed green board. You get a big hole and lots of pieces. Figure it out. An eBay buy of recent weeks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1427430730789-DH24E2HZBZ4FWB62VD02/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Painted Wooden Modernism Construction Site pieces. These things feel good in your hand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1427430744752-71HDXBQAJP4UNPANL1US/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Painted Wooden Modernism Stuart Davis, Bass Rocks #2, gouache on paper, 1939. The line versus edge investigation, begun in 1927, particularly, with the Egg Beater series, is applied to a seaside landscape. A major painting came of this, with a higher-keyed palette. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1427386772580-942BY49CLSWU5SHZXE70/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Painted Wooden Modernism Designer unknown, Steam Shovel, Playskool Wooden Puzzle, circa 1950. The linear passages are quite calligraphic here. A little less saturated palette. But that burnt umber color field! Such a surprising choice, and a great one. Maybe late 1940s? eBay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1427387032692-IYONU5TTA1R7JZS3H1JJ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Painted Wooden Modernism Designer unknown, Funky Bus in Orange City, Playskool Wooden Puzzle. The ever-alert Linda Solovic picked this up for me. Somehow, Gary Karpinsky passed on it, so it got out of the house and came to me. Score! Bizarre but fabulous palette. The cream-colored field is a huge part of this. The script logotype suggests (along with that lime green) that this is of later vintage). Among the peculiarities of this image are those buildings, as well as the chunky-boxy cloud. The skyscrapers reminded me instantly of transitional Philip Guston paintings of the late 60s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1427430791024-LJ3GYXGFLLE4ESQQWQBG/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Painted Wooden Modernism Philip Guston, City, oil on canvas, 1969. God, I love late Guston. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1427386891175-2IETW28ALXRM1TAR5XWD/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Painted Wooden Modernism Designer unknown, Auto Repair Shop, Playskool Wooden Puzzle, circa 1948(?). The balance of linework and shape isn't quite as good on this one, and the palette feels very late 40s. Another Playskool puzzle I got through Linda Solovic. I wrote about this puzzle before, in a discussion of the gasoline pumps, also in the context of Stuart Davis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1427465459702-6U8K3VR44OL4V5E37JBS/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Painted Wooden Modernism Playskool is still at it. This is a logo redesign by Selbert Perkins from 2013, which I found on a designer's blog. They do not seem to be using it, as their site shows one more dumbass gradient highlight/shadow lozenge thing: dimensionality because we can. This does not appear on the Selbert Perkins site, so somebody must have put the kibosh on the project. Too bad. Nice work. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2015/3/21/vpwl0xvnqqb8s6bx5s9m8wa883hpyj monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1426946775296-GMT8ZEQM0AGA51FXU7IY/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - The Walt Reed Archive: A Paper Trail Front panel, tri-fold brochure design for A Paper Trail, an exhibition of selections from the Walt Reed Illustration Archive, November 2013. Designed by Scott Gericke. Show curated by D.B. Dowd and Skye Lacerte. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1426946651764-507H957N3IYGU2QSZVUY/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - The Walt Reed Archive: A Paper Trail From the brochure copy for the image above: Denman Fink, “An Act of Desertion,” Cream of Wheat advertisement, painted in 1908, copyrighted in 1909. Published Saturday Evening Post, July 13, 1918. The readership of the Post was overwhelmingly white and generally culturally conservative. In that light, this troubling ad raises a great many questions. Three possibly interlocking explanations have been offered in recent discussions: one, the “act of desertion” refers to forsaking the stereotypical “slave treat” of watermelon for healthy Cream of Wheat; two, the same “desertion” makes reference to the Great Migration of Southern blacks to the North after 1900, actively resisted by Southern whites–that is, the poor black boy has been abandoned (presumably) by his father; and three, the image offers a nostalgic take on the old racial order, then collapsing, in part through migration. Two things cannot be disputed: the tenderness of Fink’s treatment of the boy, and the disturbing implicit violence of that knife. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1426948168409-1NWUKQSLXDNVK32U9U3U/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - The Walt Reed Archive: A Paper Trail https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2015/3/20/on-the-passing-of-walt-reed monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1426904278091-H71DI4IAY85Y2BHRL5B0/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - On the Passing of Walt Reed Walt Reed in his studio in Westport, Connecticut. Courtesy of the Walt Reed Facebook page. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1426905659874-ONZ3IF0NEMELP0S71X69/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - On the Passing of Walt Reed Robert Fawcett, cover illustration, Famous Artists Magazine, Spring 1959. Our illustrator has paused to paint between rounds of golf. The explicitly bourgeois costume was part of the message. Take that, avant-garde! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1426905572827-EN040XN39BUKQNVCGNYB/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - On the Passing of Walt Reed Illustrator uncredited, Student working under the supervision of famous illustrators. Detail, Famous Artists School promotional materials, circa 1960. The guy with the thick eyebrows immediately behind the student is Albert Dorne, FAS founder. Norman Rockwell has the pipe; next to Rockwell with the moustache and glasses is Al Parker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1426905957055-JY8HCMSAVMFKP5A08DEM/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - On the Passing of Walt Reed Coles Phillips, Overland Automobile advertisement, magazine tear sheet, circa 1915. Walt Reed Illustration Archive, Washington University in St. Louis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1426907641441-0UOXR03J87LP8R5RMHOB/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - On the Passing of Walt Reed Walter H. Everett. Periodical illustration for “Paid in Full,” The Country Gentleman, May, 1931. Oil on canvas. Walt Reed Illustration Archive, Washington University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1426906096945-0F300RFPHLJGOJG96FDU/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - On the Passing of Walt Reed Elizabeth Shippen Green, "I am proof against their enmity," illustration for Romeo and Juliet in Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, 1922. Scanned from the book in the Walt Reed Illustration Archive, Washington University in St. Louis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1426907526557-DNTY30IMZ5MEQDZRIIRA/fish_abullaandco_det.jpg Graphic Tales - On the Passing of Walt Reed Anne Fish, "The Dazzle-Swish," advertisement for Abdulla Cigarettes, 1927. Magazine tear sheet, Walt Reed Illustration Archive, Washington University in St. Louis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1426907275511-715QV3V3NS40I0X0BXTC/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - On the Passing of Walt Reed Neysa McMein, cover illustration, Woman's Home Companion, October 1922. Magazine tear sheet, Walt Reed Illustration Archive, Washington University in St. Louis. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2015/3/3/time-and-more-time monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1425443035717-2JKH28YJSZJ7OA9MT3DF/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Marking Time, in Several Senses D.B. Dowd, 2015 Calendar Page (March 15-21). This started out as a riff on sponges (collaged in below) using a sloppy modular system to create the lettering, like a drunk LED sign. Then I realized I should probably integrate St. Patty's Day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1425442829711-3O6ZUOJFL7TARBU6LOW5/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Marking Time, in Several Senses Dowd, 2015 Calendar Page (February 1-7). The Fossils in the upper left are taken from a 1930s American dictionary. Across the fold from Forty-Niners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1425443246146-E8AC0UB9M9AU9U676W4E/dbdowd_calendar_Apr12-18_2015.jpeg Graphic Tales - Marking Time, in Several Senses Dowd, 2015 Calendar Page (April 12-18). Like everybody else, I'm sick of snow and winter. Yellow started to seem like a really good idea. Columns-as-tree-trunks a spontaneous conceit. The lettering at the top reminds me of a Seymour Chwast typeface that I must have been channeling earlier today... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1425442754853-WQBJMPRDO8L2JNEFK0XE/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Marking Time, in Several Senses 2015 Calendar Page (January 17-24). Still figuring out what to do with the collage element. (Not so good here.) Fraktur type drawn from Bernhard catalogue for Bauer type foundry. What was it with the Germans and Fraktur? Why did it last so long? Bernhard's Fraktur dates to the second decade of the century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1425442701899-7QYEPFM8R7RYS26U8QIJ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Marking Time, in Several Senses 2015 Calendar Page (January 25-31). I love the typeface of the upper case JAN: Bernhard's Kursiv Extrafette. The wacky crowns from the turn of the 20th century seem to suggest why World War I happened: that old Edwardian thing had to be killed off. Less seriously, I do like red, blue and tan/cream, as along he right edge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1425442542981-T5SHM44H37LKYM9QKAYG/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Marking Time, in Several Senses 2015 Calendar Page (January 25-31), filled in and blurred at bit. As if the whole thing weren't geeky enough, many days are filled with detailed swimming yardage and workout times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1425442884820-WJHL9TA3AC9W7SPDLSYB/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Marking Time, in Several Senses 2015 Calendar Page (January 8-14). Token collage fragment nonetheless inspired the whole image. Edible snail somehow gave way to snake, subsequently equipped with wheels or helium balloon tethers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1425442946820-AEY19V2HGUAE3AHHUC30/dbdowd_calendar_Feb22-28_2015.jpeg Graphic Tales - Marking Time, in Several Senses 2015 Calendar Page (February 22-28). A lineup of crystalline structures. Did one of these minerals steal your purse last night, ma'am? A little more intuitive and idiosyncratic response to the collage problem. An odd week, but fun to write in. (Which is, after all, the point.) https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2015/2/10/onsite-pencils-day-of-dialogue monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1423639444974-LHA7JM60FG0I8M5TDM2I/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Day of Dialogue: The Basement Tapes DB Dowd, illustration detail, Videographers in Emerson Auditorium, February 6, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1423631986969-81ZP8VQEV4S6DU4B3FFM/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Day of Dialogue: The Basement Tapes Dowd, illustration, Panel Discussion, Gerald Early at far right, post-keynote address–occupying his chair like an athlete between events. At the Med School event on Thursday evening, February 5. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1423639114845-KG0UTVBMSM9UVFMZ1YXY/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Day of Dialogue: The Basement Tapes Dowd, illustration, Overflow Crowd as Day Winds Down, February 6, 2015. There was a drawing of a panelist in the upper left, but it (like me and–by then–the audience) was tired, so I scrubbed it, leaving the better part of the drawing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1423638114649-W2K58JQK8D6Q497D5KYD/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Day of Dialogue: The Basement Tapes Dowd, illustration, Chancellor Wrighton Begins the Proceeedings, February 6, 2015, Emerson Auditorium, Knight Hall. The drawing started with the slowly-filling auditorium, then suddenly shifted to the figure in the double-breasted suit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1423638279893-TAJEW74BYOKBWNR45HSD/dowd_dialogue_wrighton_detail.png Graphic Tales - Day of Dialogue: The Basement Tapes Dowd, illustration, Chancellor Wrighton Begins the Proceeedings, detail. The head is pretty good–better than the figure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1423638433276-B81KOHY3HEG36WCG5400/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Day of Dialogue: The Basement Tapes Dowd, illustration, Videographers in Emerson Auditorium. This drawing started in the morning, early, with the cameras in place, accompanied by bored shooters. I returned to it later in the day, when the crowd had filled in. The heads dotting the left half of the spread provided an interesting problem. How many would be enough? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1423638580364-CUEILTHLFL6K43C61AX3/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Day of Dialogue: The Basement Tapes Dowd, Videographers, detail. This guy's head–which begins to feel pretty abstract–is one of the most appealing passages on the day, for me. Economical. I'm warmed up, but not tired yet. This little element is about 2 inches tall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1423638684922-K45ZNDUWSG2GPXOMHNF1/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Day of Dialogue: The Basement Tapes Dowd, illustration, Race is a Social Construction, a morning panel. Professor Rebecca Wanzo emerges as the dominant character. My colleague Denise Ward-Brown is at the far right. (Rebecca was spirited and nuanced; Denise provided experiential and biographical depth.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1423639582968-5R8G0PRF5KE3L9SUBUPY/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Day of Dialogue: The Basement Tapes Dowd, detail, Race is a Social Construction, Rebecca Wanzo, nonplussed but patientish, with Maketa Wilborn at the drawing board. Rebecca works with graphic novels in her teaching and scholarship, and serves on the board of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum at Ohio State. It seemed appropriate, somehow, to render her as a character. And Maketa ran a marathon that day, with style and precision. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1423638931963-516USKJ4TUTSFYRCDLJB/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Day of Dialogue: The Basement Tapes Dowd, illustration, Discussion of Stereotypes Viewed from Behind, February 6, 2015. I could have worked on this for another half hour, happily. Wanted to draw the paisley, and the constantly shifting poses of the woman on the right and just left of the page break. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2015/2/8/fox-in-the-field-student-journalists-cover-day-of-dialogue-at-wash-u monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1423519858961-J6FVXVGOOBFQX2FKEC64/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Fox in the Field: Student Journalists Cover Day of Dialogue at Wash U Team picture! Front row, left to right: Leslie Ding, Ria Han, Maya Theus, Brandon Pobrob. Back row, left to right: Sophia Brown, moi, Eden Lewis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1423464031608-NO5PBH5F92E8ZXOR2VP0/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Fox in the Field: Student Journalists Cover Day of Dialogue at Wash U Photograph of Gerald Early by Ria Han. Design by Maya Theus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1423465545568-IWWWXPOJIQTUH9JXLJYN/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Fox in the Field: Student Journalists Cover Day of Dialogue at Wash U Illustration of Bob Hansman and hand lettering by Eden Lewis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1423464948812-8US2EJVIN690RV0K64AX/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Fox in the Field: Student Journalists Cover Day of Dialogue at Wash U Drawing of the medical school setting before the event began by Sophia Brown. She was right; nobody every did pour a glass of water from those pitchers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1423464274297-PCX5CMW13L2TN0VSVCU7/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Fox in the Field: Student Journalists Cover Day of Dialogue at Wash U Photograph by Ria Han. I love this image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1423464867251-S3O9795PF7FC9P5R3JEN/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Fox in the Field: Student Journalists Cover Day of Dialogue at Wash U Illustration by Brandon Pogrob. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1423464213256-CCRFWEPEPSFRD9BYU8WV/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Fox in the Field: Student Journalists Cover Day of Dialogue at Wash U Typesetting in Baskerville by Maya Theus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1423464993064-O5G1997QWK8PCVFZISWY/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Fox in the Field: Student Journalists Cover Day of Dialogue at Wash U Illustration by D.B. Dowd of the panel following Gerald Early's keynote address. Also: please note that the illustration in the tweet embedded below is by Eden Lewis. (For some reason Squarespace doesn't seem to want me to caption the tweet.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1423465640196-7JJLXEALXBFF7S0HVAPU/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Fox in the Field: Student Journalists Cover Day of Dialogue at Wash U Illustration by Leslie Ding. An aggrieved woman asks a question that ran long. Leslie's economy of line and shape is terrific here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1423464809968-YBEPDW01SMG3B4YZF61J/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Fox in the Field: Student Journalists Cover Day of Dialogue at Wash U Illustration by Brandon Pogrob. Brandon's drawings are descriptive and funny, yet stop short of being cartoons. This central character seems energetic but quite world-weary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1423465415916-YKPC1I1KSPXMC1PX44MQ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Fox in the Field: Student Journalists Cover Day of Dialogue at Wash U Eden did nice work with hand-drawn type to isolate key sentences and moments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1423464689821-WI6CPRL6ZU3H651QDRZB/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Fox in the Field: Student Journalists Cover Day of Dialogue at Wash U On Day 2, Leslie shifted to pencil for some of her drawings. She did a nice job with likenesses (though I prefer the graphic decisiveness of her ink work). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1423464149692-Q7L7GRJA465QWW6IV3BG/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Fox in the Field: Student Journalists Cover Day of Dialogue at Wash U Photograph by Ria Han. Design by Maya Theus. Rather pithy quote, no? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1423464521923-WKGO3R5FYCEJQ03POMY8/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Fox in the Field: Student Journalists Cover Day of Dialogue at Wash U Illustration by Dave Gray. He made a ton of these. Nice pockets of density in a relatively airy drawing. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/of-news-and-pictures-then-and-now monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403904336641-DKPGJ3DQWIAXI92QWGU9/Costa_Concordia_listing.jpg Graphic Tales - Of News and Pictures, Then and Now Photo credit unavailable (I tried), Costa Concordia, a ship capsized off the coast of Italy on January, 13, 2012. 32 people were confirmed dead. Its captain, Francesco Schettino, was charged with manslaughter; as of January 2015 the case is wending its way through the Italian courts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403904355985-X4GBG6LJPKYRHMEDZBEL/Alfred_Waud_Antietam.png Graphic Tales - Of News and Pictures, Then and Now Alfred Waud, Battle of Antietam, engraving in Harper's Weekly, October 11, 1862. The battle took place on September 17. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403904377477-28PI3WYKB4D60Z68K83O/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Of News and Pictures, Then and Now Timothy O'Sullivan, Stereophotograph of Alfred Waud in Devil's Den at Gettysburg, 1863. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403904402144-R9H6UWVLJIEKBWT8I3AS/Gardner_Confederate_Dead_Antietam.jpg Graphic Tales - Of News and Pictures, Then and Now Alexander Gardner, Confederate Soldiers as they fell by Burnside Bridge, photograph at Antietam battlefield, September 1863. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1421732291363-LX7BX3SOHZ5YGMSXY9N7/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Of News and Pictures, Then and Now Kleophrades Painter, Sack of Troy Hydria. 5th century BCE. This image and the two below it show the defeat of the Trojans at the hands of the Greeks: the end of Homer's Iliad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1421732574758-K2RV2TZ0FPW2YBSMLJ3C/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Of News and Pictures, Then and Now King Priam, bleeding and weakly covering his head, awaits the death blow that's coming from Neoptolemos, son of Achilles. Astyanax–son of Hector–is already dead, is draped across Priam's lap. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1421733478097-PL3Q4S0YG7695Z6ARTS3/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Of News and Pictures, Then and Now Ajax, left, comes for Cassandra, who is holding onto the Palladion, sort of a cigar-store-Indian sculpture of Athena. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403904506561-SDRDU3EZLABFWCOG90SM/0304_Rodney_full_600.jpg Graphic Tales - Of News and Pictures, Then and Now George Holliday, still image from video footage of the Rodney King beating, on March 3, 1991. Los Angeles, California. Holliday sent his footage to news station KTLA, and outrage resulted. An early example of citizen journalism, made possible by a technological innovation: the consumer grade camcorder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403904519908-4FWUTA5WMTPV2KAJRBYQ/Gardner_Antietam_buried_Federal.jpg Graphic Tales - Of News and Pictures, Then and Now Alexander Gardner, Federal Buried, Confederate Unburied, photograph at Antietam battlefield, September 1863. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403904600391-V85RLSB7DBE60GLWGO8C/Neda_Agha_Soltan.png Graphic Tales - Of News and Pictures, Then and Now Still from video footage of the death of Neda Agha-Soltan in Tehran, Iran, on June 13, 2009. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2015/1/11/late-to-the-party monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1421030967020-PL520M3CB10VJ1Y29CRH/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Late to the Party https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1421030991233-NKE5Z4EMK61TP5DSUACY/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Late to the Party https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2015/1/10/clock-ticking-on-mac-conner-show monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1420910530383-BR4FAJ7OP85AGH4C2PKB/dutta_dowd_conner_talk.jpg Graphic Tales - Clock Ticking on Mac Conner Show Your Truly, speaking in front of a giant reproduction of a Mac Conner illustration. If you go to the show, which I urge you to, here's some treasure hunt fun: go find this actual illustration and look at that ring: what's surprising about it? Photograph by Deep Dutta. (Thanks, Deep!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1420912030338-XVW38O4A6WBJM4L933GA/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Clock Ticking on Mac Conner Show The Museum of the City of the New York: a Georgian-style mansion at 5th Ave and 103rd. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1420910821487-Z6PLV59VUF49T6ZWZWG6/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Clock Ticking on Mac Conner Show Mac Conner, Illustration for "Where's Mary Smith?" Good Housekeeping, June 1950. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1420910975175-2XC7689EVNJHY6KW3NPD/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Clock Ticking on Mac Conner Show Read this book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1420911349381-6HEZ71S9KDG3ZNL009RE/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Clock Ticking on Mac Conner Show Mac Conner, illustration for "There's Death for Remembrance," This Week Magazine, November 13, 1953 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1420911562621-844XJPO6Q3LU0IYOBJQU/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Clock Ticking on Mac Conner Show Tear sheet, This Week Magazine, November 13, 1953. From the Mac Conner tear sheet file in the Walt Reed Illustration Archive, housed in the Modern Graphic History Library at Washington University. FROM THE LABEL COPY for the color version, above: Florence and Richard Lockridge’s noir tale “There’s Death for Remembrance” typifies the assignments Mac received from This Week. This two-part story centers on the murder of Fern Hartley, shown here in mid-air, falling down a flight of stairs to her death. Hartley had been attending a dinner party and reunion of high school friends when her incessant reminiscing provoked someone to silence her. The following week Conner’s illustration shows dinner guests looking down at Fern’s lifeless body. This Week Magazine was a syndicated free newspaper supplement inserted into local Sunday newspapers. Published from 1935-1969, at This Week’s height it appeared in 42 papers nationwide. As many as 13 million people may have seen this image in print, dwarfing the audience for Conner’s magazine work. It’s appropriate that his biggest audience would see such a representative work–featuring the trademark Conner inventive point-of-view. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/18/danish-cartoons-and-visual-rhetoric monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1420731204938-R4G92FQPRL6FNH1S2HEL/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Charlie Hebdo, Danish Cartoons and Visual Rhetoric https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1420732860018-PZMKYIZOCHIHOOI9PMVN/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Charlie Hebdo, Danish Cartoons and Visual Rhetoric A Charlie Hebdo cover presenting Mohammed as "guest editor" (100 lashes if you don't die laughing! reads the voice bubble). The magazine's offices were firebombed soon after. 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1420732106611-Y53XUPG3UEOT2CSW9XDM/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Charlie Hebdo, Danish Cartoons and Visual Rhetoric Neon signage (no longer illuminated, probably for security reasons) identifying the offices of Jyllands-Posten in Copenhagen. I shot this photograph in 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403109726811-2VILW7DQW0XISW9LOZOX/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Charlie Hebdo, Danish Cartoons and Visual Rhetoric Ben Shahn smiles at himself and dour Protestants in Self Portrait Among Churchgoers, 1939. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403109772389-A0AN672WRG0JQ5YUZEOE/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Charlie Hebdo, Danish Cartoons and Visual Rhetoric Visual rhetorician Thomas Nast offers up an anti-Catholic broadside in "American Ganges," published by Harper's Weekly on September 30, 1871 (and reprised with modifications on May 8, 1875). A thorough discussion of the image provided here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1420733385814-DKW6ME1HVIHIANUJDGAJ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Charlie Hebdo, Danish Cartoons and Visual Rhetoric Kurt Westergaard, The Prophet, published in Jyllands-Posten, 2005. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2015/1/7/daumier-weeps monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1420667969830-169UHEBYVWKBX65NV7DB/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Daumier Weeps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1420668293465-GV086M2SKM78UBPK25N0/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Daumier Weeps https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2015/1/3/onsite-drawing-and-the-uses-of-photography-1 monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/22e4a806-48c0-4f73-b3a5-30cb6152abef/Screenshot+2025-04-02+at+12.13.46+PM.png Graphic Tales - Onsite Drawing and the Uses of Photography 1 - Make it stand out D.B. Dowd, Spartan Holiday No. 1: Shanghai Pictorial, February 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1420300623624-8OY720MBVVTRQV3UBFYV/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Onsite Drawing and the Uses of Photography 1 D.B. Dowd, Military Aircraft, World War II Gallery, United States Air Force Museum, Dayton, Ohio. Sketchbook painting, gouache over pencil. 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1420300443214-ZQ0QXF7BR7797B6DF62M/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Onsite Drawing and the Uses of Photography 1 D.B. Dowd, Sketchbook Notation, pencil. 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1420300477331-IKIN6OW210GVKL3KAHMF/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Onsite Drawing and the Uses of Photography 1 D.B. Dowd, Cargo Planes, World War II Gallery, USAF Museum. Sketchbook drawing, pencil. 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1420301210267-T4Y7X58GI8NZGFSJA7KF/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Onsite Drawing and the Uses of Photography 1 D.B. Dowd, Boats in Winter Drydock, Holland, Michigan. Sketchbook drawing, gouache over pencil. 2008. This was the drawing Dan Zettwoch asked about. What did the pencil look like before I painted it? I didn't scan it beforehand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1420301320205-HY52I35MI3AU8Q1JEQ2U/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Onsite Drawing and the Uses of Photography 1 D.B. Dowd, final spread in "Shanghai Pictorial," Spartan Holiday No. 1, 2012. The left half of the image was drawn onsite (January 2011) in the Humble Administrator's Garden, in Suzhou, China. (It was about 38 degrees outside.) The key drawing was inked later; secondary color drawn in ink, with digital supplements. The right half of the image was drawn from photo reference. It doesn't depend on a complicated spatial perception, so it was straightforward enough to execute that way. By contrast, I could not have made the left hand drawing from photo reference: it would have collapsed into a flattened mass of undifferentiated foliage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1420301525273-EW1TN50CR2RSBOW51CNO/Lincolnway_pencil_text+copy+2.jpg Graphic Tales - Onsite Drawing and the Uses of Photography 1 D.B. Dowd, 2023 Lincolnway East, Massillon, Ohio, brush drawing for autobiographical introduction in "Shanghai Pictorial," Spartan Holiday No. 1, 2012. Drawn within a week of onsite photo shoot, 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1420315409192-WO7BZLQL6R620F6MP6D9/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Onsite Drawing and the Uses of Photography 1 D.B. Dowd, reference photograph, 2023 Lincolnway East, Massillon, Ohio. 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1420300380419-S8CHXYHA0XH8UMF43AVO/dbdowd_Thunderjet.jpg Graphic Tales - Onsite Drawing and the Uses of Photography 1 D.B. Dowd, Republic F84-E Thunderjet, Korean War Gallery, United States Air Force Museum, Dayton, Ohio. Brush drawing over pencil with digital color. 2010. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/12/28/lvn27gb0vn2r69eyz5pfqjkhrpe19s monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1419809588164-V6QMWVCY10TPGGTRLO8J/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Humbled at Year's End? The Praying Knight, an unattributed portrait of Herman von Saschsenheim (1430-1508). Stiftskirche, Stuttgart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1419826248607-D11TQRDMYDYLJ04ZD1QE/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Humbled at Year's End? From my lecture. (As for what it means, another time.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1419808698527-YJQF36LONUDSK9CANT7G/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Humbled at Year's End? Lori in a cafe on Olgastrasse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1419810273749-0AMGMG5CLFOQUA6JTZHY/Screen+Shot+2014-12-28+at+5.42.54+PM.png Graphic Tales - Humbled at Year's End? The Stiftskirche, Stuttgart. View from the rear of the church, dissimilar towers in view. At left is a(n unrelated) statue of Schiller, surrounded by Christmas market stuff. Wikimedia Commons photograph by Joachim Köhler. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1419810708559-X1V8UADCTD0TGB6D8QLM/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Humbled at Year's End? The Stiftskirche after Allied bombings in May 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1419808634854-1CKSQ2XRGYPWE75W42PK/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Humbled at Year's End? The Stiftskirche restored. A 1950s barrel vault slathered with asbestos was removed in favor of a gothic quotation in the vaulting and glass panels during a renovation completed in 2003. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1419808505848-IPJ4045Q9J29UH4BFQQ7/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Humbled at Year's End? D.B. Dowd, Nativity, Stiftskirche. 2014. A late gothic scene bracketed by an Annunciation and the Adoration of the Magi; from a sequence that once ran around the church's choir screen. (Choir screens often featured early sculptural comic strips in late medieval churches; such screens divided the chancel from the nave.) Drawn in pencil onsite, inked upon my return in the few first days of December. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1419808550100-RMVBEXHFX8OA3TQ5WKPC/Stuttgart_holiday_card_5x7_crop_det.jpg Graphic Tales - Humbled at Year's End? Dowd, Nativity. Detail. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/12/28/beginners-pluck-chip-kidds-go monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1419799496231-E0RZ81EO7TTGH5UTWNWO/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Beginner’s Pluck: Chip Kidd's GO GO: A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design by Chip Kidd, Workman Publishing, 2013. 160 pages with illustrations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1419799561951-Z8YUXLVHNBSY2HK6HAIH/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Beginner’s Pluck: Chip Kidd's GO Paired concepts, somewhat frantically presented. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1419799583870-AYG6BJS5JEBQ24SIBGEH/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Beginner’s Pluck: Chip Kidd's GO A particularly effective spread, from the chapter devoted to typography. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/11/15/geeky-homemade-datebooks monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1416109696161-TS2QFSABMRDUW0EDH0R4/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Creating Time D.B. Dowd, Calendar Treatment, November 16-22, 2014. Gouache in blank book. The circus-ey type was painted in, sans pencil drawing, starting with the red. Corrected in white. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1416684358108-ZTIQMMQM820QIRAF90JQ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Creating Time D.B. Dowd, calendar cover design, 2014. Sprayed blue-on-blue through stencils. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1416684429219-BH5M5ZG88FPTZ3N59YY5/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Creating Time D.B. Dowd, December 14-20, 2014. A miniature essay in Christmas cliches. From stars and angels to holly and an Advent calendar quote. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1417407254694-5J77G69QQXPHQBP8GCVQ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Creating Time Al Parker, Ladies Home Journal cover illustration, December 1946. One of Parker's celebrated Mother/Daughter covers for the magazine (which ran intermittently from 1939 into the early 50s) the scene captures a meta-narrative tracking the postwar baby boom. But from a design perspective, how about that masthead, and those letterforms? Such freedom! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1416684462877-I1TCTUUOP6FZTQW95TFD/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Creating Time Dowd, December 14-20, detail. I like the little "c" house ornament and the second "e" ornament. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1416684493491-FHKD9DM8X0JQSGP74EHQ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Creating Time Dowd, December 14-20, detail 2. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1416684529980-AMSVA2PIQWD6ETP6Z9PU/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Creating Time Dowd, December 21-27, 2014. Trudging to Bethlehem. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1416684576428-TNYB45C78NKKSCZGJB68/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Creating Time Dowd, November 30-December 6. Most pages are like this: some hand lettering over seven columns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1416684389628-SI00HKP9GBWT8MQ6AXMF/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Creating Time Dowd, December 7-13. A more abstract take on the problem. Using up an old palette. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/11/6/in-nyc-for-american-illustration-33 monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1415293406586-8N2TIQ9QIMJAJ85ZLZGP/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - In NYC for American Illustration 33 D.B. Dowd, Pancake Girl with Library Figures, Shanghai, from "The Five Pagodas," Spartan Holiday No. 2, 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1415293576395-YUO7SUQ1GJVMA64RSUAH/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - In NYC for American Illustration 33 D.B. Dowd, Wraparound Cover Spread from "The Five Pagodas," Spartan Holiday No. 2, 2013. The hand-lettered caption Only to wanderers can come ever new the shock of beauty is from a poem from Du Shenyan (born 646 CE) https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/11/4/race-and-class-in-st-louis-late-90s-style-ferguson-before-the-fact monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1415131555772-SVB4TMYOUMXK2LDJOLC7/Screen+Shot+2014-11-04+at+2.05.00+PM.png Graphic Tales - Sam the Dog in St. Louis: Ferguson Before the Fact This image and the others below are spreads from Trouble in Trapper City and The Ballad of Hoofer Dupree, Sam the Dog Revisited 1 and 2, respectively. 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(This image and others below expand when clicked on.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1413925959667-LEJVX4AONQ0UH4UM2J3D/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Text, Image, Artifact: "All the Golden Things" Al Parker, reference photograph, "All the Golden Things," 1946-47. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1413926136942-W8RTOWAZ4X4MMHRN5U0I/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Text, Image, Artifact: "All the Golden Things" Al Parker, reference photograph, "All the Golden Things," 1946-47. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1413926074820-OWS9Z623M86UZQ7LCOXR/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Text, Image, Artifact: "All the Golden Things" Al Parker, reference photograph, "All the Golden Things," 1946-47. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1413918926100-MBEUJ4HLLDBN9NE9UAOH/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Text, Image, Artifact: "All the Golden Things" Alex Ross, cover illustration, Good Housekeeping, February 1947. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1413919313557-8CDI82TFW1SPUBCYKBSO/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Text, Image, Artifact: "All the Golden Things" Detail, fiction sections, Table of Contents, GH. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1413919018319-E4QLHN6ANEZOVNER99EC/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Text, Image, Artifact: "All the Golden Things" Table of Contents, Good Housekeeping, February 1947. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1413919406935-HYE0T3S2H3CGHI6OFOIN/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Text, Image, Artifact: "All the Golden Things" All the Golden Things story text, resuming pages 182-183, GH https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1413919498012-EXA0L27O9BS24IM8N52X/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Text, Image, Artifact: "All the Golden Things" Pages 184-185. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1413919580820-C5BNTMQDC1SIA5AO3VM7/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Text, Image, Artifact: "All the Golden Things" Pages 186-187.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1413919707541-0WAAFQL0SL0Q4NM8H00K/GH_0247_188-9.jpg Graphic Tales - Text, Image, Artifact: "All the Golden Things" Pages 188-189. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1413919892976-R54C5E7F6DKAFQUIENOM/GH_0247_190-1.jpg Graphic Tales - Text, Image, Artifact: "All the Golden Things" Pages 190-191. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1413920012386-ZS9TRMDZ4XIGQBDWEPLZ/GH_0247_192-3.jpg Graphic Tales - Text, Image, Artifact: "All the Golden Things" Pages 191-192. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1413920108461-LTEJZ858FDTSRB1L1QPW/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Text, Image, Artifact: "All the Golden Things" Pages 194-195. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/10/21/advertisements-good-housekeeping-february-47 monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1413922651576-SSKHBCE3JYXCM8FVREUG/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Advertisements, Good Housekeeping February '47 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1413922743618-ECF53I8IG85BXYQCSJQX/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - 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We Could Name Heroes D.B. Dowd, Frances Yvette! Plate No. 4 from Cry Mustardville, 1995 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403894071884-2PMJCV4L9V756IWTVHCK/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - We Could Name Heroes Philip Guston, Gliders, circa 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403894054217-TCDS3GKP91NF2AATAN3V/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - We Could Name Heroes Guston, Friend–To M.F., 1978 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403894107319-3T6BUY2BDVQ63FJJNI5T/guston-pyramidshoe2.jpg Graphic Tales - We Could Name Heroes Guston, Pyramid and Shoe, 1977 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403894127332-S6AQFXCQ9AYOBF43GVRY/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - We Could Name Heroes Dowd, Elk in Cityscape, animation still, Scenes from Starkdale, Ohio, 2006 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1413823495446-KJBE3F6UG3XBTFGRRN56/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - We Could Name Heroes David Stone Martin, Jam Session at the Philharmonic, jacket cover illustration for Mercury Records, circa 1950. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403894155308-AYHN4KGBC5OPUA3A50H0/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - We Could Name Heroes Davis, The Paris Bit, 1959 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1413824315163-9A0RFRQI46NCSTI1NY2Y/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - We Could Name Heroes Dowd, spread from The Ballad of Hoofer Dupree, 2014, excerpts from Sam the Dog, St. Louis Post Dispatch, 1997-1999. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403894169458-GBYOYF2LUZ1I7CC5HKXX/Davis_Eggbeater.jpg Graphic Tales - We Could Name Heroes Davis, Egg Beater No. 5, 1930 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403894198320-OAS0TSXOC12NN3B38LVV/200205_050_depth1.jpg Graphic Tales - We Could Name Heroes Jimmy Katz, Cassandra Wilson, photograph, 2002 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403894221762-5OFFZTSF8QCJSFPM3XY8/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - We Could Name Heroes design credit unavailable, Vintage Contemporaries cover design for The Sportswriter, by Richard Ford https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1413822558130-533ADU663RYTWLIFNWIC/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - We Could Name Heroes Dowd, Rashomon Pizza Oven, Canton, Ohio. 2010. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/10/3/jxvd2p0vg5bnyvt5zwgkymjoz44y1g monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1412375928489-EL71FPM8T9RNDDHCKZS7/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Conner's Couples: Electric, Spectral, Dreamy Mac Conner, illustration for “No Kiss for Kate” by Timothy Acres. Woman’s Day, December 1953. Gouache on illustration board.       https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1412376468365-Q8PWMUQKDKSLT9VGYPYO/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Conner's Couples: Electric, Spectral, Dreamy Mac Conner, “No Kiss for Kate." Detail.             https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1412376008592-7ZY613T557B3CB7KOBX4/Conner_TWM_1953.png Graphic Tales - Conner's Couples: Electric, Spectral, Dreamy Mac Conner, illustration for "The Ghost Takes Charge" by William Brandon.This Week Magazine, December 27, 1953. Gouache, ink, and photographs on illustration board.           https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1412376267963-KUSXGGJ6KIUVWC0VV9T2/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Conner's Couples: Electric, Spectral, Dreamy Mac Conner, fiction illustration for unknown publication, 1950s. Gouache, graphite, and colored pencil on illustration board. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/10/1/jffkn9e3xkhhrljdpr016ly170dxs8 monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1412277137473-XZFHB0XH0OGEZAHCBXH5/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Read the Signs D.B. Dowd, Bai Lin Real Estate Office, Shanghai. From Spartan Holiday No. 1, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1412223193965-HOIY2BRVX6ZR481Q7GAY/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Read the Signs D.B. Dowd, Motel 6, San Rafael, California, 2011. This was my warm-up piece the day I drew Mike Hirshon's wedding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1412219793672-851B38V39HJHPEYN982H/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Read the Signs D.B. Dowd, detail from "Into the Wilderness," Sam the Dog, Episode 65, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 29, 1998. Re-presented in Trouble in Trapper City: Sam the Dog Revisited 1, Ulcer City Publications, October 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1412219423114-634RGMHFQBHVMCJJS4O0/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Read the Signs D.B. Dowd, Rashomon Pizza Oven, Canton, Ohio 2008. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1412223014739-81MFPF7ASN2P10DSMGXB/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Read the Signs D.B. Dowd, Bradley's Restaurant, Sketchbook Study, Boulder City, Nevada. 2008. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1412223995970-GIHXD4EE71QK8ZU4QSGD/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Read the Signs D.B. Dowd, Only to Wanderers, back cover (left) of Spartan Holiday No. 2: The Five Pagodas. Ulcer City Publications, 2013. Hand-lettering, not signage, but surely inspired by it. Not to mention the Spartan Holiday identity, designed (along with SH) by Scott Gericke and me. (2011.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1412223385027-AOSQLDKIKIX19JT0G4UR/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Read the Signs D.B. Dowd, Along Nanjing Road, in Spartan Holiday No. 1: Shanghai Pictorial. Ulcer City Publications, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1412224395757-NI6U0JNGF6IQIS02LIIJ/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Read the Signs D.B. Dowd, Sappington Market LED sign documentation, pencil drawing. South St. Louis, 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1412219486270-76T7APNWB72SIG8SHTYT/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Read the Signs D.B. Dowd, animation still, Scenes from Starkdale, Ohio, 2007. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/9/17/yo8b5yi6kpe5ngkgrlf03rkciz2cse monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1411013890874-T1VGCAZ36CVSDMCWPAEW/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - J.G. Posada Visits Oklahoma Advertisement, Black Eye 2, edited by Ryan Standfest. Rotland Press, 2013. Sort of Saul Bass-ian, no? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1411022742353-F4JID76R9JF67K76V49N/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - J.G. Posada Visits Oklahoma Splash Page, http://rotlandpress.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1411017935342-HMV4L6YKKIY77E94VF57/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - J.G. Posada Visits Oklahoma José Guadalupe Posada, Shark Attack. Wood engraving, circa 1900. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1411019563342-JXYUYEMMGYTN0TB2MN7D/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - J.G. Posada Visits Oklahoma D.B. Dowd, Rodrigo! page in Memory of Posada, insert in Black Eye 2, edited by Ryan Standfest. Rotland Press, 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1411017223038-RUYEKKUST9CQOLDY1T9A/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - J.G. Posada Visits Oklahoma D.B. Dowd, The End of Clayton Lockett, brush drawing in ink with typography, spread in Chasing Posada. Rotland Press, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1411017318961-KWRS39OYODOS9GSZ5UG1/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - J.G. Posada Visits Oklahoma D.B. Dowd, detail, The End of Clayton Lockett, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1411017374556-8077J90D85MP4RZVY2VD/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - J.G. Posada Visits Oklahoma D.B. Dowd, detail, The End of Clayton Lockett, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1411019977615-22YZE33L09L8GPY885W3/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - J.G. Posada Visits Oklahoma Artist unknown, Danse Macabre, hand-colored woodcut, Northern Europe, circa 1500. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/9/7/more-aspirational-heiroglyphics monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410111998121-UN0W1D2A1N6UQSXFBCFD/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - More Aspirational Heiroglyphics Illustrator credit unavailable, cover illustration, Popular Mechanics, December 1954. Window-shopping at Christmastime. Dad is checking out the model trains; Junior is jonesing a drill and rotary sander set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410111526354-W6CRW0MHE9I3OZ9KWWN4/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - More Aspirational Heiroglyphics To follow, a selection of whole ads and fragments; above, an example of the latter, a totem of magical mystical mechanical know-how. (Study car repair at home!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410111654390-RBOR2KFTQMJ7J3CMMJBZ/Popular_Mechanics_DEC1954_22a_corrected_trim.jpg Graphic Tales - More Aspirational Heiroglyphics I'm fixin' me an iron. Sixty years from now they'll call me something French, like an entrepreneur. But I think of myself as more of a would-be inventor. A tinkerer, really. (Meanwhile: have I showed you this Flubber stuff I've been working on...?) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410112316649-V332TN69A70H99B609F1/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - More Aspirational Heiroglyphics Massive frogs from Louisiana. The Nufend Giants. Mutants, most likely. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410111594643-VZ5Y1MSJULXOJKLOE1AX/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - More Aspirational Heiroglyphics Expertise on the accordion has long provided a pathway to beauty, wealth and power. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410111761099-W8PD5X47QDIATRJM6J8Q/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - More Aspirational Heiroglyphics Okay, then. I will. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410111798375-CCN8WRKBF7BIM1CDWRFR/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - More Aspirational Heiroglyphics My questions, if you must know, begin at the refrigerator, but somehow transcend the appliance. Still: you guys got any beer? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410112189840-PDJTHACAD1SFWX16KV8F/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - More Aspirational Heiroglyphics This is an excellent plan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410111893007-FTLR7K8NHUN1EM9DGZMN/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - More Aspirational Heiroglyphics The Kabbalah of Vaudeville. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410111849052-L9IT9HEFYMB99IFKVK8T/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - More Aspirational Heiroglyphics The Boomerang: a metaphor for our times. Two bucks does not begin to cover it. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/9/11/mccauley-conner-nibble-of-the-day monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410444956994-ZLJHW65H3SPRDUGQH29H/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - McCauley Conner Nibble of the Day Mac Conner, Illustration for part one of “The Other Father” by Laura Z. Hobson. Cosmopolitan, November 1949. Gouache and graphite on illustration board. On view at the Museum of the City of New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410445236182-C0C21RS9U1QCKAY44RYG/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - McCauley Conner Nibble of the Day Mac Conner, illustration detail, “The Other Father.” 1949. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410445169330-ORNM1NB2A64FJHXKWEO4/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - McCauley Conner Nibble of the Day Mac Conner, illustration detail, “The Other Father.” 1949. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/9/10/mac-conner-a-new-york-life-90-x-90-day-10 monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410369852837-IGS6C6WFZ3AQ8KG9IE6R/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Mac Conner: A New York Life (90 x 90 Day 10) Mac Conner, illustration for "Bachelor's Choice," by Mary Agnes Thompson, in The Saturday Evening Post, August 2, 1958. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/9/7/picture-lotto-redux monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410114195342-0X9T3TY1ZTPG1XFQYFBA/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Picture Lotto Problem C. Clement, Rocking Horse, Picture Lotto gamepiece for Samuel Gabriel and Sons Company, circa 1950. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410114579164-VQC1XRKG1LZ99A5OC9D7/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Picture Lotto Problem Draw Me Grid, Image + Story Course Materials (with annual variation), D.B. Dowd, 2010-2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410238995164-XR9DS7UKAY9RYHVVWYDJ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Picture Lotto Problem C. Clement, Pinwheel, circa 1950. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410114143655-Q3GEOX7Z7C9OR2PA08CH/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Picture Lotto Problem C. Clement, Picture Lotto Card for Samuel Gabriel and Sons Company, circa 1950. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410114040531-IINRFJMXG6YLISZPTUW3/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Picture Lotto Problem C. Clement, Picture Lotto Card for Samuel Gabriel and Sons Company, circa 1950. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410114225867-7Y83HMWVPSCJNB1DSNUQ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Picture Lotto Problem C. Clement, Sewing Machine, circa 1950. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410115453122-ZAA6VX6J53LUVXSQCGC3/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Picture Lotto Problem https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410114331686-GP6T6KRW3DLUFKOSLUKV/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Picture Lotto Problem Golden Funtime Punchout Books, Golden Press, 1962. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410114288661-Z7JGTBMP3VBBWBR87PRM/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Picture Lotto Problem Illustrator uncredited, PIcture Lotto Cards, Golden Funtime Books, 1962. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410114442953-O03CUBG3PP8OOM4SML8P/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Picture Lotto Problem C. Clement, Television Set, circa 1950. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410114382181-SK9LYHEFDATBB6LMXPSM/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Picture Lotto Problem Illustrator uncredited, Puppet on TV, Golden Funtime Books, 1962. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410114510410-3NITJVREJVPJK8SKD2DW/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Picture Lotto Problem Fran Allison with Ollie (left) and Kukla (right) from Kukla, Fran and Ollie television program, circa 1950. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/9/6/destination-earth-the-story-of-petroleum monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410039351250-8LE6XRAG7QAKEPW5FC95/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Destination Earth: The Story of Petroleum Ogg convenes the people, still from Destination Earth, 1956. John Sutherland Productions. Directed by Carl Urbano, Production Design by Tom Oreb and Victor Haboush. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410039302505-F2Y6L05OQ34VNM1AAWG6/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Destination Earth: The Story of Petroleum Sponsorship slate, still from Destination Earth, 1956. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410039741787-Q0KY5XR68EHCTR454J3D/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Destination Earth: The Story of Petroleum Colonel Cosmic preaches the twin gospel of competition and fossil fuel, still from Destination Earth, 1956. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410039586622-89CLYV8I8KVM13BZJKJM/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Destination Earth: The Story of Petroleum The American car-scape, still from Destination Earth, 1956. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410039648818-KBPCDE808D4F4N3HKHMH/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Destination Earth: The Story of Petroleum Oil exploration, still from Destination Earth, 1956. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410039411290-F1A6KK4WUFWNYPCOR5G7/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Destination Earth: The Story of Petroleum Ogg's audience, still from Destination Earth, 1956. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410039507606-YHXV1VXE9O5CPCN9VRSA/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Destination Earth: The Story of Petroleum Colonel Cosmic observing automobiles, still from Destination Earth, 1956. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410039460736-VTE1N3EV8IAFQCEB1TQV/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Destination Earth: The Story of Petroleum Colonel Cosmic and Ogg the Great, still from Destination Earth, 1956. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/9/6/pmiwveo2621q0lnz7185kw3m89e6m5 monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410030339621-3TQCYSXVZCFM86F7GLFI/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Lively Pictures of "Boring" Things Redux Illustrator uncredited, Power Tools, section divider illustration, Better Homes & Gardens Handyman's Book, Meredith Corporation, 1957. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410032397929-8IQIU84X6DPGHLTQCIN4/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Lively Pictures of "Boring" Things Redux Illustrator uncredited, cover illustration, Better Homes & Gardens Handyman's Book, Meredith Corporation, 1957. Note admiring wife in housedress gazing upon hubby with bulging biceps in Richie Cunningham plaid shirt with fishing hat and pipe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410031602667-60RU1PG0WFF7HCOZ8TWM/dividertabs009.jpg Graphic Tales - Lively Pictures of "Boring" Things Redux Illustrator uncredited, Fastening Techniques, section divider illustration, BH & G Handyman's Book, 1957. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410031705577-G62YZ45ZBAI00P419QLQ/BetterHomes_HomeRepair_Windows%2Bdoors.jpg Graphic Tales - Lively Pictures of "Boring" Things Redux Illustrator uncredited, Windows and Doors, section divider illustration, BH & G Handyman's Book, 1957. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410031764833-LI2XQTWW9JBH5VLNI2BX/BetterHomes_HomeRepair_Walls%2BFloors.jpg Graphic Tales - Lively Pictures of "Boring" Things Redux Illustrator uncredited, Walls and Floors, section divider illustration, BH & G Handyman's Book, 1957. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410031905285-J7G7VDIJJ199SNE5C4RA/BetterHomes_HomeRepair_Walls%2BFloors_det.jpg Graphic Tales - Lively Pictures of "Boring" Things Redux Detail, Walls and Floors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410031968789-JE1KHAK52VAMZVCFVDKI/BetterHomes_HomeRepair_BuildingMaterials.jpg Graphic Tales - Lively Pictures of "Boring" Things Redux Illustrator uncredited, Building Materials, section divider illustration, BH & G Handyman's Book, 1957. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410032001455-YW8HM4LIONI3OD8D1895/dividertabs010.jpg Graphic Tales - Lively Pictures of "Boring" Things Redux Reference Tables, Wood Screws and Nails, section divider verso, BH & G Handyman's Book, 1957. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1410032068028-QZ26N7NW42CHNCUGHWWW/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Lively Pictures of "Boring" Things Redux Illustrator uncredited, General Index, section divider illustration, BH & G Handyman's Book, 1957. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/9/2/c0jnwggau6rel6zhvmjsaj6nvhojou monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409718925171-6Y029YA7B56BXB6AMA6S/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Astroboy: Animated Chiaroscuro Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom (Astro Boy in English), 1963. The show ran in Japan from 1963 to 1966. An American version dubbed in English ran on NBC during the same period. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409718601501-RO22TV3WF6830Q572MXT/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Astroboy: Animated Chiaroscuro Astroboy swimming through electrified robot-breath. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409718670802-AY3YVDL86JSRP59CJC9D/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Astroboy: Animated Chiaroscuro Ta-da! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409718711658-M7UGUNTW58VVUQGTE816/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Astroboy: Animated Chiaroscuro Who or what is that guy on the left? A bipedal anthropomorphized lion cub with aviator's scarf? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409718799074-A03XOQZ2N2TUTCP8F8AF/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Astroboy: Animated Chiaroscuro Robot with Astroboy indigestion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409718745865-CVY3XRD0WAE4V47MYUAU/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Astroboy: Animated Chiaroscuro Some borer thing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409718963676-3JQ8NZXRG99QYNNJ600W/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Astroboy: Animated Chiaroscuro Venetian monopolists with pistolsin Mickey gloves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409718995736-4EPUUPC3WF8QD9T1NCRI/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Astroboy: Animated Chiaroscuro Cartoon Klansmen, sort of. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409719276165-R32QJ3LABMHOWAUOHFPO/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Astroboy: Animated Chiaroscuro Caged crooks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409718848518-DPVCA41VP02J2TIWKSUT/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Astroboy: Animated Chiaroscuro Sea serpent; excellent high-contrast frothy water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409718889404-XLKKFANOP0WRIPFMADLS/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Astroboy: Animated Chiaroscuro Ball with cilia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409719192003-ZU0NFQR5XS21MZEJ35TH/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Astroboy: Animated Chiaroscuro Ooooh, I'm gonna get these troublemakers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409719045030-NOJJDQJ6X2V8ODTSNZFG/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Astroboy: Animated Chiaroscuro Take that! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409722239603-89PMAY78DGP8TB6GXU2K/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Astroboy: Animated Chiaroscuro Colosso! https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/9/2/day-2-of-90-x-90-adventures-in-signage monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409666760557-48Z7HYXD5BF9Y14OKEFR/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Day 2 of 90 x 90: Adventures in Signage Postwar Commercial Concrete Poetry, I tell you https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409667243464-KF6ZLHBZ8FCZJYBQ4FM0/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Day 2 of 90 x 90: Adventures in Signage Constellation Studios, Lincoln NE https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/8/30/zt3fd6sdugzzqji2wbfeba77iuhue7 monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409455622417-810XA5DKEAHELYH69BIS/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Elizabeth Shippen Green, 90 x 90 No.1 Elizabeth Shippen Green, What angel wakes me from my flowery bed, illustration for a tale from A Midsummer Night's Dream in Tales From Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb, 1922. (Note Bottom with an ass head back left.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409455908230-EFSBNCIJ9V6EDXBNNSVI/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Elizabeth Shippen Green, 90 x 90 No.1 Elizabeth Shippen Green, Look thou but sweet and I am proof against their enmity, illustration for a tale from Romeo and Juliet in Tales From Shakespeare. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409456386696-N4TZQ2V8J6C558Y6PLWF/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Elizabeth Shippen Green, 90 x 90 No.1 Elizabeth Shippen Green, The Tempest, illustration in Tales From Shakespeare. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409456131687-OUBTUE8X2HRN4XM90YAQ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Elizabeth Shippen Green, 90 x 90 No.1 Elizabeth Shippen Green, illustrator's note with self-portrait in Tales From Shakespeare. I find this is quite charming. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409456208538-F1VF9U078DSMK7EU9W9W/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Elizabeth Shippen Green, 90 x 90 No.1 Elizabeth Shippen Green, detail, illustrator's note with self-portrait. This is speculation on my part, but the figure leaning in the window with the 30-60-90 triangle is probably ESG's husband Huger Eliiott, an architecture professor, with whom she collaborated on an alphabet book in the 1940s. (A copy of which I would like to find.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409456055381-MHC5VOKRZ16I4P123ACR/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Elizabeth Shippen Green, 90 x 90 No.1 Elizabeth Shippen Green, frontispiece illustration showing the Bard on his knees, offering a folio to Queen Elizabeth enthroned for Tales From Shakespeare. The predella features a family with young readers kneeling before an elephantine edition of the Lambs' book, possibly the 1866 edition illustrated by Gilbert. An ersatz virgin in glory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409456640712-WMFMF4ADEQPRCEK0POEM/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Elizabeth Shippen Green, 90 x 90 No.1 Elizabeth Shippen Green, But how have I failed so wretchedly, frontispiece illustration for The Mansion, 1911. Screen shot from the Internet Archive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409456519333-RUNSOZOP1LD5CJNII44Q/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Elizabeth Shippen Green, 90 x 90 No.1 Elizabeth Shippen Green, But how have I failed so wretchedly. Lovely little bit of pink waft, no? Who is that? https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/8/29/a55bi4441urwfmscvnedcfv53kziuy monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409438839610-MQLYIQUHCTKP9BIIBZY6/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - 90 x 90 Starts Monday D.B. Dowd, North Side Chop Suey, 2011, goauche painting for "Shanghai Pictorial," Spartan Holiday No.1, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409437576818-GC0RIQX1WBIZSUT7MFQY/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - 90 x 90 Starts Monday D.B. Dowd, illustration from "Meet the Bunny," Episode 64, Sam the Dog, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 15, 1998. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409434468392-GG5HDTNSSNFRFYERDLKM/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - 90 x 90 Starts Monday Wu Youru, Forceful Attack at Bac Ninh, Dianshizai Huabao No. 1, 1884. DSZHB was pioneering illustrated newspaper supplement in China, modeled after the Western illustrated news but with a unique Chinese take; Wu was the most skilled and popular of the illustrators to work on the publication. My trip to China in 2011 was partly inspired by a desire to see more of Wu's work. I took this photograph in a Shanghai teahouse, where the owner keeps his complete run of DSZHB (1884-1900). I was lucky to be introduced to him by my daughter-in-law's uncle, Mr. Tuo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409434107160-TWLY1V8XYGQBFF8VUHI0/wooden_shoe.jpg Graphic Tales - 90 x 90 Starts Monday The Wooden Shoe, Holland, Michigan. I took this photograph in June 2012, after perusing the booths. I picked up some copies of Collier's, 1939-1941. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409436439325-AWHOGO4RA7W8RAAX802B/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - 90 x 90 Starts Monday Robert O. Reid, cover illustration, Collier's Weekly, October 14, 1939. One of the Collier's issues I acquired at the Wooden Shoe. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/7/17/intersecting-favorites-design-swimming monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1405634509945-SH7PJZ08IPKVMTRD968F/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Intersecting Favorites: Design + Swimming D.B. Dowd, The Shea Classic Shirt, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1405636157761-52CDSSW81MXXOQX4V7E7/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Intersecting Favorites: Design + Swimming The color comp we showed to Mary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1405635103178-ESBXNLACK1ZZZ9MNVF63/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Intersecting Favorites: Design + Swimming Intern Extraordinaire, Kate McCarter, wearing the shirt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1405636340832-MTO42U0O08DMASCTDL2X/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Intersecting Favorites: Design + Swimming The back of the shirt. Now that I look at it, maybe we should have closed that gap between the distances and the strokes... https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/30/december-studio-notes-part-1 monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404148573292-L7Y4672YUIZ93TV7E049/davis_landscape_space.jpg Graphic Tales - December Studio Notes Part 1 Stuart Davis, Shapes of Landscape Space, probably Gloucester, gouache on paper, 1938 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404148607138-0IIO66WS32KYPMGWP7OI/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - December Studio Notes Part 1 N. Glaise, Lettres a Boule Fantaisie, detail from chromolithograph lettering sheet, a loose Plate (X) from (what I think is) Bibliotheque Du Peintre En Batiment, Modeles De Lettres Sur Vingt Tons De Fonds Differents, published by Emile Thezard, Paris, 1901 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404148632597-H4IXEQ225BGOE9BSR13G/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - December Studio Notes Part 1 Stuart Davis, a cityscape, also probably from Gloucester, circa 1940 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404148661517-AIYLBSA0N3I1VF9C5OPZ/guston_untitled_drawing_1950.png Graphic Tales - December Studio Notes Part 1 Philip Guston, untitled drawing, 1950 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404148678011-85QVELHLJX9WTOYZ1BOT/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - December Studio Notes Part 1 Guston, The Light, oil on canvas, 1964 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404148709844-2M6K46O64MGAMO5AE1PQ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - December Studio Notes Part 1 Guston, Ancient Wall, oil on canvas, 1976 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404148744945-NHIFJH7FNXYF96R6V455/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - December Studio Notes Part 1 Designer Uncredited, Navajo rug from Teec Nos Pos, Apache County, Arizona. George H.H. Huey, photographer. Issued as a postcard in a set published under the title Navajo Rugs of the Southwest, undated (which I bought at the Denver Art Museum in 2008, I think) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404148760632-SNSFSAXJUMK3VNFZLRFV/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - December Studio Notes Part 1 a Stuart Davis not pinned up now, but on my wall in Paris last July and August, Place des Vosges No. 2, 1928 (the actual place in Paris being worthy of comment, but not here and now) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404148776632-9ALQBV0ML4O6C7MXQC86/brunetti_newyorker_092313.jpg Graphic Tales - December Studio Notes Part 1 Ivan Brunetti, Goings On Around Town, New Yorker cover, September 23, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404148785173-63AWPHL1ZNTK9C8OHEYD/brunetti_newyorker_det_092313.jpg Graphic Tales - December Studio Notes Part 1 Ivan Brunetti, detail, Goings On Around Town. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/30/ignorance-and-indiana monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404148341700-E7YCJ1VAIGJCLL6ZDKG7/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Ignorance and Indiana historic Indianapolis 500 cars photographed by Steve Zautke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404148361775-1WN17IDNCXQ0ERIXEL1D/110514IndyVintage023.jpg Graphic Tales - Ignorance and Indiana historic Indianapolis 500 cars photographed by Steve Zautke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404148402657-PMA0HTGCVN2AN1354RB7/110514IndyVintage094.jpg Graphic Tales - Ignorance and Indiana historic Indianapolis 500 cars photographed by Steve Zautke. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/30/spartan-holiday-meets-pecha-kucha monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404148120332-B9NM2GQ0WWN8PXYP3ZYK/dbdowd_gericke_pk_slide_baker.png Graphic Tales - Spartan Holiday Meets Pecha Kucha https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404148126114-LHPW91OP0HFF572SECA5/Gastreich_PK_dowd_gericke1.png Graphic Tales - Spartan Holiday Meets Pecha Kucha https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404148150180-B23X46V2BFY16JZ9TP3T/Gastreich_PK_dowd_gericke2.png Graphic Tales - Spartan Holiday Meets Pecha Kucha https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404148185091-AHDTNVY5FHX1F62XX4VU/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Spartan Holiday Meets Pecha Kucha https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404148224560-OTLIDUSVE4NGDSBBT3H5/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Spartan Holiday Meets Pecha Kucha https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404148255123-MDLK8UNPUILT2DPG59QE/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Spartan Holiday Meets Pecha Kucha https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/30/revived-december-magazine monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404147830313-2OW4OQZG3M3N9UCJOS1X/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Revived december Magazine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404147858288-UKPH45WDQASUMHZVHY9X/henry.gif Graphic Tales - Revived december Magazine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404147873495-ARNPFK3MMVQARK1JOFT7/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Revived december Magazine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404147893077-E4M1PYNLWXLI1UECU6ZL/december_sketch1.jpg Graphic Tales - Revived december Magazine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404147925831-CXFNFRDNQGX9KMYX6TYV/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Revived december Magazine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404147948821-FZ6ELJXUZNLHDXWOV6E3/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Revived december Magazine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404147980391-5U5V1QKZKZJDVL2Z07T3/dbdowd_key_drawing.jpg Graphic Tales - Revived december Magazine https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/30/walt-reeds-archive-comes-to-st-louis monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404147607273-06OMS4TJ53U41NAKX4I6/Leyendecker_crimson_conquest_1907.jpg Graphic Tales - Walt Reed's Archive Comes to St. Louis! J.C. Leyendecker, book cover design, The Crimson Conquest, 1907 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404147627593-35GJXYL8HEOZO5OTJP2L/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Walt Reed's Archive Comes to St. Louis! the cover of Walt Reed's Illustrator in America, featuring a reproduction of The Nation Builders (1903) by Howard Pyle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404147649139-U8EFMNEZDP3U4F1BJNQ9/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Walt Reed's Archive Comes to St. Louis! Harry Stacy Benton, painting for Cream of Wheat advertisement, 1908 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404147671549-O27Y1CHEBNNDJZ5LQ5TN/lowell_life_man_with_blinders.png Graphic Tales - Walt Reed's Archive Comes to St. Louis! Orson Lowell, cartoon for Life Magazine, September, 1912. (Yes, that's a man on a leash wearing horse blinders. Tension over gender roles?) The Lowell drawing is surprisingly large in scale, and shockingly refined. We have three such drawings in the collection. We also have 82 small studies by Lowell. So much more to see! https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/30/an-illustrated-thank-you-card-for-starters monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404147501390-VCV989Q7JGZQT294FIWC/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - An Illustrated Thank-You Card, for Starters https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404147519593-DC25YWTWDIW21YMZ6RU2/dear_professor_red_det.jpg Graphic Tales - An Illustrated Thank-You Card, for Starters https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/30/gatsby-lays-a-west-egg monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404147266944-YMV3RXWZ0F0TGA7DG8LV/Gatsby_times_square.png Graphic Tales - Gatsby Lays a West Egg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404147288783-6DWUXHE0DRCNFF1NK6GW/Gatsby_Graphics.jpg Graphic Tales - Gatsby Lays a West Egg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404147301512-G36RDE5Q5QNEL1CVF5RF/billboard_eyes.jpg Graphic Tales - Gatsby Lays a West Egg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404147341071-DIL8OCDVL7HMNA35UIFH/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Gatsby Lays a West Egg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404147365446-2EL1JYPMGLSFTLKTI4RQ/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Gatsby Lays a West Egg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404147381676-1H6CSQB9TV96JQ5XHB7F/Great_Gatsby_DiCaprio.jpg Graphic Tales - Gatsby Lays a West Egg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404147394395-ZI7GPYM92QD91O1L5A0Z/Leyendecker_CharlesBeach_arrow_ad1922_72dpi_1.jpg Graphic Tales - Gatsby Lays a West Egg https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/30/like-illustrated-grammar monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404146942447-MUW1OI9WEO8E17UGQ7YZ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Like, Illustrated Grammar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404146964572-9JUQ5XOUMS3RAVGXFN4Q/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Like, Illustrated Grammar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404147002221-HTTEC5IRCS3SI2UIKJIH/sentence_procession.jpg Graphic Tales - Like, Illustrated Grammar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404147021003-0EFE2TX9514PY643L992/sentence_show_3.jpg Graphic Tales - Like, Illustrated Grammar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404147062334-UHRNJ8B604YBTPW49NLF/grammar_milktruck_1.jpg Graphic Tales - Like, Illustrated Grammar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404147084112-AD6BK7JH0D1MYRVN0KES/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Like, Illustrated Grammar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404147098497-OZROW58VKAVN78UGB3KH/grammar_boat_2.jpg Graphic Tales - Like, Illustrated Grammar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404147124850-2LNKUIFXWA40YRDSQ41T/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Like, Illustrated Grammar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404147148877-SOPF48JLKJR3FNUAADPI/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Like, Illustrated Grammar https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/30/in-pursuit-of-variety monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404146358277-Z8F5FFDRI308UFGYPHS1/shot+construction_pov.jpg Graphic Tales - In Pursuit of Variety Point of view. Where is the "camera" relative to our two characters? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404146381164-N5H1MXP8UHHYGRMFXII6/shot+construction_pov2.jpg Graphic Tales - In Pursuit of Variety Space missions. Moving the camera around provides a sense of variety. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404146404491-XVDCDMJ4OSTTKW680AWR/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - In Pursuit of Variety Scale: how wide or tight is the shot on our character? How does our sense of what the shot is for change with position and cropping? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404146427873-6WOW2IKK57W6EOVYDM5C/shot+construction_placement.jpg Graphic Tales - In Pursuit of Variety The position of things–even important things–does not have to be central every time! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404146561945-DGSRFLHKAA07181QZ2WM/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - In Pursuit of Variety Osamu Tezuka, Astro Boy No. 1, by Osamu Tezuka. Mighty Atom (Astro Boy to American audiences) was created in the 1950s. The creation myth, “The Birth of Astro Boy” was a later addition by Tezuka.English edition published by Dark Horse Comics, 2002   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404146587842-57055L1BLSA9366YMTCR/caniff_steve_canyon_020348.jpg Graphic Tales - In Pursuit of Variety Milton Caniff, Steve Canyon daily comic strip, February 3, 1948.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1511806932729-ZMOLH7G1BYWK14IFIQ47/Caniff_terryandthepiratesproof_122946.jpg Graphic Tales - In Pursuit of Variety Milton Caniff, Terry and the Pirates, December 29, 1946 Sunday strip.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404146333981-SMUHCW3D4GZK1DRI9PPS/Herge_King_Ottoman_chase_det2.jpg Graphic Tales - In Pursuit of Variety Hergé, panel from King Ottokar's Sceptre, a Tintin adventure that takes place in an imaginary eastern European county governed by a purportedly virtuous but besieged monarchy. 1939.     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404146460978-IML4132IRMRZL83XJ8YA/Herge_King_Ottoman_chase_sm.jpg Graphic Tales - In Pursuit of Variety Hergé, page design from King Ottokar's Sceptre.     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404146479593-C6EIAH1RLTBF3CURQ85E/Herge_King_Ottoman_chase_det.jpg Graphic Tales - In Pursuit of Variety Love this shot. Er, panel.     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404146498490-PP1X3DZRU4EF7YPR1ZAS/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - In Pursuit of Variety The motorcycle chase scene broken down into abstract compositional studies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404146510321-XEOTAI1SA4S3LAMP51S3/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - In Pursuit of Variety The second and third registers on the chase scene page. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404146630710-TF223QK5AKH3KVYYCLU5/caniff_steve_canyon_090148_sm.jpg Graphic Tales - In Pursuit of Variety Milton Caniff, Steve Canyon Sunday strip, August 1, 1948 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404146647998-NXT6NOFAH9FY1WO97A6S/caniff_steve_canyon_090148_det1.jpg Graphic Tales - In Pursuit of Variety Caniff, detail of 8/1/48 Steve Canyon Sunday strip. Panel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404146674244-XK2JWJ45Q5H4WK846PLZ/caniff_steve_canyon_090148_det3.jpg Graphic Tales - In Pursuit of Variety Caniff, detail of 8/1/48 Steve Canyon Sunday strip. Panel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404146697681-TOMYZX07H2VXES05VPQY/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - In Pursuit of Variety Caniff, detail of 8/1/48 Steve Canyon Sunday strip. Panel. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/30/drawing-the-smell-of-creamed-rice monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404145136965-64P9F92YTY4EQYWLHVGA/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Drawing the Smell of Creamed Rice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404145166939-EQFF4ZDER8C8VGKXWCVM/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Drawing the Smell of Creamed Rice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404145183138-KFGM0LX16QIBHOJFQEC4/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Drawing the Smell of Creamed Rice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404145212307-7Z2KE2JJL61HRQXFSHSZ/kvm_wagon_doll.png Graphic Tales - Drawing the Smell of Creamed Rice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404145248081-GA9PTGLENIMHHPUY8PN8/kvm_interior2.jpg Graphic Tales - Drawing the Smell of Creamed Rice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404145281537-C1VMKBHFVP41WQ74LCOB/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Drawing the Smell of Creamed Rice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404145310446-CC7I6UCKC8FLSL01QB53/kvm_drypoint.jpg Graphic Tales - Drawing the Smell of Creamed Rice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404145333421-FCFZZS44AR1WE2MV0768/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Drawing the Smell of Creamed Rice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404145358900-RW3WPVU7KIZQMMCZBSUB/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Drawing the Smell of Creamed Rice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404145418982-I7HX5I0RZ98M62Q4YQF2/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Drawing the Smell of Creamed Rice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404145385591-WUNF931UUY1IQEJJOV1J/kvm_pancake_supplies.jpg Graphic Tales - Drawing the Smell of Creamed Rice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404145454009-6EBTAJEMX96IJON3HR0O/kvm_roofline.jpg Graphic Tales - Drawing the Smell of Creamed Rice https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/30/cheap-photography-classy-illustration monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404145691670-BJK2X6KLF4LWARLCQA9N/gala_TOC_0958_det.jpg Graphic Tales - Cheap Photography, Classy Illustration? Photographer(s) uncredited, detail of photographic collage on the table of contents page of Gala, September 1958 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404145711977-SOC2BAUDFLXTDQDG3UEN/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Cheap Photography, Classy Illustration? Photographer uncredited, "Yank Pin-up Girl K.T. Stevens," Yank: The Army Weekly, May 19, 1944 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404145742562-92FKUQB8TEIJRUNFLHPM/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Cheap Photography, Classy Illustration? CGI illustration of Lara Croft, Tomb Raider; game developed by Core Design, published by Eidos Interactive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404145777415-7DTL6BUFA72JUKRU34TA/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Cheap Photography, Classy Illustration? Cover illustration Stare magazine, December 1961 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404145811887-E8HDP6S4PHCTLH7S932H/stare_interior_girl_with_plant.jpg Graphic Tales - Cheap Photography, Classy Illustration? Photographer uncredited, Glenda Graham (with houseplant), Stare https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404145827203-UEKWIGJ8VADLZHB785FP/elvgren+2.jpg Graphic Tales - Cheap Photography, Classy Illustration? Gil Elvgren, Pin-up Girl with Parrot, circa 1950 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404145850546-LEWU0URKH93O4X1P6OTO/le_smut012_Gala_9-58+copy.jpg Graphic Tales - Cheap Photography, Classy Illustration? photographer uncredited, cover design, Gala magazine, September 1958 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404145874718-75U0TY0OQ8VY66FNZPVM/gala_TOC_0958.jpg Graphic Tales - Cheap Photography, Classy Illustration? Gala table of contents; advertisement for stag films, HPB Enterprises, Culver City, California https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404145888036-WJJMHB7T39CGQ67KSQIO/gala_stag_film_0958.jpg Graphic Tales - Cheap Photography, Classy Illustration? Opposite Gala TOC, advertisement for stag films, HPB Enterprises, Culver City, California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404145913897-Y01LSXQ71754BM9OFYLD/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Cheap Photography, Classy Illustration? Slathering idiots with burlesque girl onscreen, detail, advertisements in Gala. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404145941122-OKWVFN5A8GBI3T7ZWVS6/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Cheap Photography, Classy Illustration? Detail with burlesque women and wolf figure, stag film advertisements in Gala. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404145970986-NEQL40GAN13OZX3Z0F03/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Cheap Photography, Classy Illustration? Detail, stag film advertisements in Gala. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404145993696-95R0QW34YAKN7GM2U1H5/gala_lonely_ads_0958_p1_det.jpg Graphic Tales - Cheap Photography, Classy Illustration? Detail, advertisements in Gala opposite inside front cover. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404146024654-HOQRQIFVQAYX0AA7AO2C/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Cheap Photography, Classy Illustration? 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The New Journalism & Illustration Photographer credit unavailable, Photograph of Tom Wolfe, cover, New York Magazine, February 14, 1972 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404140521316-WUH2TS1CAPCPZ9VL9T5W/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - The New Journalism & Illustration Robert Weaver, suite of images from What's Come Over Old Woolworth?, Fortune Magazine, January 1969 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404140562281-URIXEAQV4T31DHAUYP5T/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - The New Journalism & Illustration Robert Weaver, suite of images from What's Come Over Old Woolworth?, Fortune Magazine, January 1969 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404140603193-HCV2RSOTXJL9SKVX39O2/Weaver_Woolworth2.jpg Graphic Tales - The New Journalism & Illustration Robert Weaver, suite of images from What's Come Over Old Woolworth?, Fortune Magazine, January 1969 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1404140633417-TAGQ242AUJ9LF7RYT892/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - 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Calendar Geekery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403904775074-HNH2WAWWM6MP619B0XWM/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Calendar Geekery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403904806642-XHM27V63DL1PXZ7JPJV8/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Calendar Geekery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403904836524-6JJGCW0LRNOMH2VER2EH/Mar_sample+1.jpg Graphic Tales - Calendar Geekery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403904855787-897BABEXD2O9W3A0NXAQ/palette.jpg Graphic Tales - Calendar Geekery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403904882197-PI8PR3KDF9UQR8DH7FRL/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Calendar Geekery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403904915520-ITDXYNWPO7H8I26602SW/May_sample.jpg Graphic Tales - Calendar Geekery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403904925502-0880JSEXYL5VQU508OFY/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Calendar Geekery https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/aspirational-hieroglyphics monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403904045042-XBH1RVD9TIT2TAFPS4RJ/Popular_Mechanics_DEC1954_28-29_trimC.jpg Graphic Tales - Aspirational Hieroglyphics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403904068855-FRLLKSYS0BFAUJ1EZ29S/Popular_Mechanics_DEC1954_22a_corrected_trim.jpg Graphic Tales - Aspirational Hieroglyphics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403904098849-BWF2KL8EKZHNHRYOFWDN/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Aspirational Hieroglyphics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403904151239-1ULAHDQIN6NRT73AKN39/Popular_Mechanics_DEC1954_36-37_trimD.jpg Graphic Tales - Aspirational Hieroglyphics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403904167570-APZFI3DHFS6RJUB22BSJ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Aspirational Hieroglyphics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403904188395-C8HFKJSOGUPOZ5XPTLC3/Popular_Mechanics_DEC1954_20.jpg Graphic Tales - Aspirational Hieroglyphics https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/periodicals-and-the-history-of-illustration monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403903591763-Z5D5PG63LUAOK4WHZK9W/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Periodicals and the History of Illustration designer unknown, ornamental typographic cover design https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403903610999-ONFMXLXMF98G2PB3SXUY/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Periodicals and the History of Illustration St. Nicholas, November 1875 (the issue in which Howard Pyle's first published illustration appeared) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403903630190-QQ7KX5ISHH4TXO71153S/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Periodicals and the History of Illustration Jessie Willcox Smith, Mother and Child with Easter Lily, cover illustration for Collier’s, 1904 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403903649658-3TF4EKP7Q0AQNJOLTRK8/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - 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Leyendecker (troubled brother of J.C.), The Flapper, cover illustration of Life Magazine, 1922 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403903676973-3GDVKFXMWYRD2QJSNWOF/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Periodicals and the History of Illustration Norman Rockwell, The Double Take, cover illustration for the Saturday Evening Post, March 1, 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403903704573-W3QIGB8SA45L1NKKPXOE/parker-groucho-desk.jpg Graphic Tales - Periodicals and the History of Illustration Al Parker, Groucho Marx, cover illustration for TV Guide; April 27, 1957 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403903730364-0Z3A72CPN1X2T9GE5ND0/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Periodicals and the History of Illustration George Lois, art director, Muhammad Ali as St. Sebastian, cover photograph for Esquire, April 1968. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/sequential-narrative monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403903122351-1V79B68BSMJAG964QJLY/pg3_Ware_Acme_18adj.jpg Graphic Tales - Sequential Narrative https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403903445418-R11CAPC0TMAEYHWRXCZT/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Sequential Narrative https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/a-divine-project monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403902780732-G45FZRMFZX46OMMJTY7Z/Jack_Dowd_cover.jpg Graphic Tales - A Divine Project Cover design by Joe Sullivan and Amy Olert, Jack Dowd: A Remembrance. 2007. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403902820143-VHSMJFZITEVT70PF36IA/Jack_Dowd_spread1.jpg Graphic Tales - A Divine Project Joe Sullivan and Amy Olert, Jack Dowd page spread. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403902871277-YEPZ7ILYE4V08MX1RNQ0/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - A Divine Project D.B. Dowd, cover design for In Pursuit of God's Kingdom, by Rev. James F. Dowd, 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403902903093-4UANNMFH086HY3BU5LEY/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - A Divine Project Susie Ellsworth, designer; D.B. Dowd, illustrator; page design for In Pursuit of God's Kingdom. 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403902921098-Y6A956EWFATI1WO8PYWL/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - A Divine Project Dowd, spot illustration, In Pursuit of God's Kingdom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403902944513-NTXUR1FG6EWNQRUBLBH5/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - A Divine Project Dowd, spot illustration, In Pursuit of God's Kingdom. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/july-20-a-red-letter-day monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403902396125-5A8A4RLW93L7WXJR5F9U/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - July 20: A Red Letter Day! Moon Explorer, tin toy by Yonezawa, 1960s; and Capsule 6, tin toy by Masudaya, 1960s; both photographs by Yukio Shimizu, reproduced in Robots, Spaceships and Other Tin Toys, Taschen, 2006 (first edition 1996) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403902413236-KCUYPPUA1XY8R98LB85G/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - July 20: A Red Letter Day! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403902437548-03KB0QUKCURM393HMX4E/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - July 20: A Red Letter Day! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403902466163-97U9JIU5SJX0QEOX8BIT/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - July 20: A Red Letter Day! Moon Explorer, tin toy by Yonezawa, 1960s; and Capsule 6, tin toy by Masudaya, 1960s; both photographs by Yukio Shimizu, reproduced in Robots, Spaceships and Other Tin Toys, Taschen, 2006 (first edition 1996) https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/bizarre-visual-artifact-of-the-week monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403902164470-POXYSL8VH72WVZO6CPUW/Sundblom_Stonewall_Jackson_coca_cola.jpg Graphic Tales - Bizarre Visual Artifact of the Week Haddon Sundblom, Stonewall Jackson on the march...ready for a fresh start after a short rest period, Coca-Cola ad, Ladies Home Journal, October 1931 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403902198063-A3Z04R5SJ4D2ZCI6RK0M/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Bizarre Visual Artifact of the Week James Rosenquist, I Love You With My Ford, 1961 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403902216215-U1JDGVORW110ZF5DJFE6/Coca-Cola-Art_Christmas_Santa11.jpg Graphic Tales - Bizarre Visual Artifact of the Week Haddon Sundblom, For Sparkling Holidays, Coca-Cola ad, circa 1935 https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/rockwell-kent monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403901752011-MMKLBTKY3W9FK37NMATS/Kent_Bunyan_01.jpg Graphic Tales - Rockwell Kent Rockwell Kent, selected illustrations and initial capitals, Paul Bunyan, by Esther Shepard and designed by Rockwell Kent, Harcourt Brace, 1924 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403901784249-QK6P9SGXVWZVZJ04LDQJ/rockwell_kent_iceberg.jpg Graphic Tales - Rockwell Kent Kent, Early November: North Greenland, oil on canvas, 1933 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403901811561-A2O97QEHREX1UQ9ELXYM/Kent_Bunyan_02.jpg Graphic Tales - Rockwell Kent Rockwell Kent, selected illustrations and initial capitals, Paul Bunyan, by Esther Shepard and designed by Rockwell Kent, Harcourt Brace, 1924 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403901835226-4TWV74HB2UDU0SZMBX6K/Paul_Bunyan_Kent+2.jpg Graphic Tales - Rockwell Kent Rockwell Kent, selected illustrations and initial capitals, Paul Bunyan, by Esther Shepard and designed by Rockwell Kent, Harcourt Brace, 1924 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403901856114-WKZ96OAR9WAP87VI4NG7/Paul_Bunyan_Kent+4.jpg Graphic Tales - Rockwell Kent Rockwell Kent, selected illustrations and initial capitals, Paul Bunyan, by Esther Shepard and designed by Rockwell Kent, Harcourt Brace, 1924 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403901892925-7JN467JZWE4HXAAONPPT/Paul_Bunyan_Kent+1.jpg Graphic Tales - Rockwell Kent Rockwell Kent, selected illustrations and initial capitals, Paul Bunyan, by Esther Shepard and designed by Rockwell Kent, Harcourt Brace, 1924 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403901924206-4T6NVOZVE66XKH9DWY85/earle_bunyan.jpg Graphic Tales - Rockwell Kent Eyvind Earle, backgrounds for Paul Bunyan, animated short, Walt Disney Studios, 1958 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403901967618-XY34U159WZ3QVZ0NM27O/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Rockwell Kent Eyvind Earle, backgrounds for Paul Bunyan, animated short, Walt Disney Studios, 1958 https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/serials-wordmarks monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403900543092-WAHK96B2NQ02VAR1Q2N6/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Serials & Wordmarks Designer unknown, Super Science wordmark, A Popular Publication, 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403900563917-I83SP3D5BRZ5Y4I26HGQ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Serials & Wordmarks Robert O. Reid, cover illustration, Collier's, August 3, 1940 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403900621607-32TG1KEO2UU6ZJOHQCXY/Zenithradiotheearlyyears_zenith.jpg Graphic Tales - Serials & Wordmarks Designer unknown, wordmark for Zenith Radio, circa 1925 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403900631318-3XYC77FF5NB1XX56ZCPX/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Serials & Wordmarks Designer unknown, bottle cap designs, Ritz Grapefruit and Jurk Lemon soda, mid-twentieth century https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403900641865-3YNZ05HN73WWPFA6KD41/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Serials & Wordmarks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403900683045-2Q90HHPSCDRDH6GG62U7/VOGUE_revista_-_logo.png Graphic Tales - Serials & Wordmarks designer unattributed (though somebody has to know this–a little help?), Vogue Magazine wordmark https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403900695691-OL127NROSCYGSZ2692DI/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Serials & Wordmarks Cuneyt Akeroglu, cover photograph, Vogue Turkey, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403900726768-K6Z0BWYSN9YUPGYBR7AS/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Serials & Wordmarks designer unknown, wordmark for Lev Gleason’s Crime Does Not Pay, early 1950s, with various color treatments https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403900748133-IA5H247V9ZLHAGBCJH5Q/gleason-crimenotpay2_wordmark2.jpg Graphic Tales - Serials & Wordmarks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403900763373-G7FM1M6EKLOTYDAX10U0/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Serials & Wordmarks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403900812266-XNLZNCDMKW4HT3AIS73R/Holiday-Giusti_September-1957.jpg Graphic Tales - Serials & Wordmarks George Giusti, cover design for Holiday Magazine, 1957 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403900839689-QP1GLSCQW3JKDLMIR33A/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Serials & Wordmarks George Giusti, cover design for Holiday Magazine, 1965 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403900891413-ZCUACHQY5YL2UIPJRJ6Y/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Serials & Wordmarks D.B. Dowd and Melanie Reinert, Ulcer City wordmark, 2004, modified 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403900919752-LASLZSD03ADUBPKTMY20/mordiPingst_OlleEksell_1953.jpg Graphic Tales - Serials & Wordmarks Olle Eskell, Mord i Pingst wordmark, 1953 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403901010667-57EW768PTDRG2ENFVC2N/AcmeNoveltyLibary_ChrisWare_2006_cover.jpg Graphic Tales - Serials & Wordmarks Chris Ware, wordmark for Rusty Brown, from Acme Novelty Library, 2006; Ware, cover design for the Acme Novelty Library based on midcentury Childcraft book covers, 2006 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403901057439-X4NZS3OYGT10H7B9GN2S/Childcraft_BookCover_FieldEnterprises_1949.jpg Graphic Tales - Serials & Wordmarks Milo Winter (speculative), cover design for Childcraft Books Volume 14, Science and Industry, Field Enterprises, 1949 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403901119077-LGNO50ZRN00YOA6NYAZC/Mozart_AlexStienweiss_1947.jpg Graphic Tales - Serials & Wordmarks Alex Steinweiss, Mozart: Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A Major, record jacket design, Columbia Records, 1947 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403901148159-LICRQL7906RSO8J5OWUT/RangelandRomances_0148.jpg Graphic Tales - Serials & Wordmarks designer unknown, wordmark for Rangeland Romance, a Popular Publication, January 1948 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403901190682-3EANCF5NZ3GENUJ3O4CT/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Serials & Wordmarks designer unknown, title slate, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, Universal Pictures, 1940, based on Alex Raymond's adventure strip Flash Gordon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403901231362-BHXZZ5NXXCDCGDZQ5XAA/Terry_Pirates_wordmark1.jpg Graphic Tales - Serials & Wordmarks finally, Milton Caniff, wordmark for Terry and the Pirates, 1944 (that is, this particular strip is 1944; an Art Deco-ish version of the mark appeared in 1934, when the strip debuted). https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/memorial-day monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403900300613-P2AEBCU5K8WITNXN73HA/Memorial_Day_truck.jpg Graphic Tales - Memorial Day https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/embedded-pictures-and-writing-about-same monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403819392481-N4W62TXH9DXKY5MILQXQ/Camel-Colliers-022936.jpg Graphic Tales - Embedded Pictures, and Writing About Same Camel Cigarette adverstisement, Collier’s, February 29, 1936. In addition to selling cigarettes, the ad provides cross-promotion for Camel Caravan, a variety show sponsored by Camel that ran on CBS Radio beginning in 1933, and survived in revised forms until 1954. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/colorful-comic-detective monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403899929774-TK7PX4XYDKAOFY9UV1VN/dicktracy_still_10.jpg Graphic Tales - Colorful Comic Detective https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403899962630-GWJ0UQZJIS3CJ4LR2Y9T/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Colorful Comic Detective https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403899989022-113IDPJMMJ0EJMWJBF29/dicktracy_still_33.jpg Graphic Tales - Colorful Comic Detective https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403900028419-UBPS1J1HGJ0S2L6G7AZ1/dicktracy_still_53.jpg Graphic Tales - Colorful Comic Detective https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403900041484-ZNSUC59PQJZHENM33MJ1/dicktracy_brow.jpg Graphic Tales - Colorful Comic Detective https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403900059125-NW4YA0B5VSZZC56U107E/dicktracy_still_7.jpg Graphic Tales - Colorful Comic Detective https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403900096491-HOJ8TY5FOW7W4WNAZE0Y/dicktracy_flattop.jpg Graphic Tales - Colorful Comic Detective https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403900110144-AQBTD4NPMY9AW1VWR5U7/dicktracy_still_30.jpg Graphic Tales - Colorful Comic Detective https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403900162712-8UOLOHL0O0GJFT8OZFWI/dicktracy_still_4.jpg Graphic Tales - Colorful Comic Detective https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403900185242-L78AJON9U4EYTWRWJ7DY/dicktracy_still_47.jpg Graphic Tales - Colorful Comic Detective https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403900218518-T1H0Y9ULOYD18P67DY6A/dicktracy_still_18.jpg Graphic Tales - Colorful Comic Detective https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/kevin-meet-myron monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403899702829-TRPND0X99A9ZNTDHZYX2/Myron_Exile_smaller.jpg Graphic Tales - Kevin, Meet Myron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403899723211-U5D33LXYJU8PGN86GQPF/phila-show-hang.jpg Graphic Tales - Kevin, Meet Myron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403899744939-DJH2SWE7O4GOGUSED5ZN/Myron_det.jpg Graphic Tales - Kevin, Meet Myron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403899765198-REHHP2M0UMM6GYNMYQ5W/4d0a4dc87a1cf.image.jpg Graphic Tales - Kevin, Meet Myron https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/rhetorical-pictures monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403899306449-C5YC0Z61F5KLVRZQE044/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Rhetorical Pictures Brian Cronin, 2002 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403899356014-LOBO8DBGHV395LDRYFTG/nast_ganges2.jpg Graphic Tales - Rhetorical Pictures Thomas Nast, 1876 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403899362418-YQCP7SPSENNZDGZN7507/Frazier_IllustratedVoice50_MorePower_a.jpg Graphic Tales - Rhetorical Pictures Craig Frazier, 2002 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403899401324-CIJRUX0YPIMGAV5D68MR/suter-sept11-oped_2.jpg Graphic Tales - Rhetorical Pictures David Suter, 2001 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403899409791-NM1V0B10ASZJ49BCDNMC/GB03_N2.jpg Graphic Tales - Rhetorical Pictures Christoph Niemann, 2004 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403899473450-NHO27XEAROP9OY4RBWWV/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Rhetorical Pictures D.B. Dowd, 2003 https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/pump-it-up monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403898818988-ZAGHOT1KSIFD9RKGEWVC/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Pump It Up https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403898841160-3ATIJGA79A6BL4ETOCFO/picture_lotto_4.jpg Graphic Tales - Pump It Up https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403898864068-QJO73ZM5BTA9B1TXLUQQ/Davis_NewYork-Paris_No3_smaller.jpg Graphic Tales - Pump It Up https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403898896719-EPUC815WF8BDJ5WAH5E4/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Pump It Up https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403898921155-TM4CIGZ08J2XRW8GVBBL/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Pump It Up https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403898982039-QGUYUVM12FQDALOGWNM9/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - 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Visual News of the World: Flaneur No. 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403898659161-S5PK9F7EEFLV8CIZB7N7/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Visual News of the World: Flaneur No. 2 https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/flaneurs-war-no-1 monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403897920097-FJRZVM5JBH14LXS19NLD/Waud_Gettysburg_day1.jpg Graphic Tales - Flaneurs @War No. 1 Alfred Waud, Attack of the Louisiana Tigers on a Battery of the 11th Corps at Gettysburg, (July 1, 1863) ink and Chinese white on brown paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403897970363-TQSNAX9YUCA7R8728TBT/Waud_Raccoon_Ford_sketch.jpg Graphic Tales - Flaneurs @War No. 1 Waud, Reconnoisance [sic.] by Buford’s Calvary Towards the Rapidan River, ink and china white on brown paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403897960466-9QJFZM30ZIXTBYRSMKLI/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Flaneurs @War No. 1 Waud,Army of the Potomac–General Buford Attacked the Enemy at Raccoon Ford, September 14, 1863, wood engraving in Harper’s Weekly, October 3, 1863 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403898002373-QMOB2DP3EN4U9K4VG8LX/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Flaneurs @War No. 1 Wu Youru, Forceful Attack at Bac Ninh, DSZHB No. 1, 1884 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403898030100-M48TKVW5PPBUC2RYBP9V/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Flaneurs @War No. 1 Nakamura Shuko, Great Japanese Naval Victory off Haiyang Island, woodblock print, 1894 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403898048863-R5G62WJN9UTQFHB007YB/manet_olympia.jpg Graphic Tales - Flaneurs @War No. 1 Edouard Manet, Olympia, oil on canvas, 1863 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403898084837-1XM6MDJBPM0P8SNP8CSL/Constantin_Guys_Regiment.jpg Graphic Tales - Flaneurs @War No. 1 Constantin Guys, Reviewing the Regiment, inkwash illustration, n.d. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403898131672-CFGPXG5Z7NRFGTTDHDGX/shoppers.jpg Graphic Tales - Flaneurs @War No. 1 William Glackens, The Shoppers, oil on canvas, 1907 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403898140312-6UN6C2PEAPBJ1OQTU2W6/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Flaneurs @War No. 1 William Glackens, Loading Horses on the Transports at Port Tampa, Inkwash and Chinese white, field sketch on assignment for McClure’s Magazine, 1898 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403898162995-N54ZG31YJ59VWNG0J9OT/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Flaneurs @War No. 1 John Sloan, McSorley's Bar, oil on canvas, 1912 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403898186344-T5M3RCTIFJ0X85WHQNSF/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Flaneurs @War No. 1 John Sloan, Ludlow Massacre, magazine cover forThe Masses, June 1914 https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/trippy-shanghai monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403897275351-UEXK9NK7QJE4VXMU021V/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Trippy Shanghai https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403897345299-2XEF1GQZEBGXJ2GLKKVH/Boat_Huangpu.png Graphic Tales - Trippy Shanghai https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403897372631-26CXJZ3IQG5S4VQYISY4/Trippy_TV_Shanghai.png Graphic Tales - Trippy Shanghai https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/notes-on-platemaking-and-printing monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403895087017-SXE5XWRNXNCB1VTVTAP6/Woodcuts_Sion2.jpg Graphic Tales - Notes on Platemaking and Printing The Sion Textile, North Italian (probably Venetian) woodcut on linen depicting the Legend of Oedipus, oldest extant printed textile in Europe, second half of the 14th century https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403895106862-WIBWA9MNAETGU7VCUTFA/3012645140_278db8b0b4.jpg Graphic Tales - Notes on Platemaking and Printing The Martyrdom of St. Erasmus, an unattributed early German woodcut, likely Bavaria, 1400-1450 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403895128197-37C9QKC2O90XUEPRFHW2/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Notes on Platemaking and Printing Albrecht Dürer, details from Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, woodcut, circa 1497-98 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403895177441-8K7EHFN2VNHPR3XHDTFT/duhrer+apocalpse+detail2a.jpg Graphic Tales - Notes on Platemaking and Printing Albrecht Dürer, details from Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, woodcut, circa 1497-98 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403895196728-B47G5Z7EJFJGCRR7LBLW/daumier4a.jpg Graphic Tales - Notes on Platemaking and Printing Honoré Daumier, Les 100 Robert Macaire, lithograph, 1838 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403895216696-19WM58EREHSX7NR3HJO2/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Notes on Platemaking and Printing illustrator uncredited, Hühner(Chicken Breeds), Meyers Lexicon, 1894 https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/is-you-is-or-is-you-aint-my-artwork monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403894742625-2HGHKBIZG1UIMY2QD6NJ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Is You Is or Is You Ain't my Artwork Janet Smalley, Southwest American Indian paper dolls, Jack and Jill Magazine, August 1950 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403894762260-XSD3GBLOS1T1SZFREUUP/Reid_NYT_061709.jpg Graphic Tales - Is You Is or Is You Ain't my Artwork Robert O. Reid, periodical illustration, circa 1940 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403894784655-D6SWRY9TQV4LEHJ88ZO9/whaam-deconstructing-lichtenstein.jpg Graphic Tales - Is You Is or Is You Ain't my Artwork Irv Novick, air combat comic panel, All-American Men at War #89, January-February 1962 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403894806349-6I2Z4DEMST41JXGFMHDO/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Is You Is or Is You Ain't my Artwork Roy Lichtenstein, WHAAM, magna on canvas, 1963, photograph by Matt Duarte, 2010(?) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403894848312-JF4KQ8JUDBCIM6XWO687/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Is You Is or Is You Ain't my Artwork D.B. Dowd, Northwest American Indian Gallery, Denver Art Museum, pencil drawing on sketchbook spread, 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403894894160-AKS0CAZTW24G7816UL50/22-1.jpg Graphic Tales - Is You Is or Is You Ain't my Artwork Joe Shuster, cover illustration, Action Comics #22, March 1940 https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/through-the-looking-glass-china monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403894617059-DGAO7EYTBRHLIVQXAL5H/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Through the Looking-Glass: China https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/operator-operator monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403894516158-2W00WKW6JEMJPLBTO4HT/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Operator? Operator! Tel-Tales No. 1, “Cut Lines & Intricate Minds.” Story by Donald Zettwoch, comic by Dan Zettwoch. A mini-comic one-off. 2010. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/whats-my-verb monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403892880166-9VH34Q1QK100W2UYF3S3/Parker-GovntGirl-030043LOW-RESscaled2.jpg Graphic Tales - What's My Verb? Al Parker, Government Girl, goauche on board in the collection of the Modern Graphic History Library at Washington University (and courtesy of Kit and Donna Parker), Ladies Home Journal, 1943) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403892900779-Y6Q4J12PVRCFVCAYVONS/bunny_frankenstein2.jpg Graphic Tales - What's My Verb? Al Parker, "Frankenbunny" (or so I call it), 1960 https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/alex-eben-meyer monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403892751233-HMIIMZAAERZUHWTONIIF/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Alex Eben Meyer https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/stories-artifacts monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403892624042-S4ST5IFK6HUE98IN0YNT/dbdowd_Simple_Simon_with_Neon_printing.jpg Graphic Tales - Stories & Artifacts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403892644624-UTJ2EY6NJGGSLL8TQ2IE/dbdowd_On_this_farm_he_had_a_cow_1.jpg Graphic Tales - Stories & Artifacts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403892664508-PF91HNR9P3OFQ44FHPRU/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Stories & Artifacts https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/yellow-kids-and-anonymity monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403892433576-FQ9ZDSET8I109BYJLCJM/outcault-yk-dogcatcher1.jpg Graphic Tales - Yellow Kids and Anonymity R.F. Outcault, "What they did to the Dogcatcher in Hogan's Alley," New York World, September 20, 1896. Published shortly before Hearst hired him away from Pulitzer in October of that year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403892457676-FR7V0LYKKSZIY8UBTIEU/outcault-yk-dogcatchdet11.jpg Graphic Tales - Yellow Kids and Anonymity R.F. Outcault, "What they did to the Dogcatcher in Hogan's Alley," New York World, September 20, 1896. Published shortly before Hearst hired him away from Pulitzer in October of that year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403892479233-8CMNCDD8FCINXDZ8UJ9M/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Yellow Kids and Anonymity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403892505461-E752YLEKWI4U5J8OUG9H/yellow_kid_placard.jpg Graphic Tales - Yellow Kids and Anonymity https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/ra-parker-meets-mary-shelley monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403819918624-8ZG0UUTH4K6W2LL3HTSO/raparker-frankenstein-she1.jpg Graphic Tales - R.A. Parker Meets Mary Shelley Robert Andrew Parker, Trembling with passion, I tore to pieces the thing on which I was engaged. Parker's Illustrated Frankenstein, Clarkson N. Potter, 1976. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403819935810-7F2F1O8EPU01E564A88H/raparker-frankenstein-fire1.jpg Graphic Tales - R.A. Parker Meets Mary Shelley Parker, In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403819967503-WATKLAH18K5LJG9N4AI3/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - R.A. Parker Meets Mary Shelley Parker, I lighted the dry branch of a tree and danced with fury around the devoted cottage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403819998124-SEH2786I0JLG2WK8H16G/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - R.A. Parker Meets Mary Shelley Parker, I saw, by the light of the moon, the demon at the casement. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/robert-andrew-parker monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1499458021280-KYSNUT8T2YIJ79P7OCLG/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Robert Andrew Parker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403819790035-429TPG6DOMMVVFM9WQGA/RAP_invite_back.jpg Graphic Tales - Robert Andrew Parker https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/on-drawing-and-citizenship monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403819678568-WT3DH5XJHUHK90H3RDKB/dbdowd_Sappington_Signage_design_comp_smaller.jpg Graphic Tales - On Drawing and Citizenship D.B. Dowd, Old MacDonald color study, Ink and digital color. 2010.                 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409460114722-IQYDDMLZ0BFWBNAYK590/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - On Drawing and Citizenship D.B. Dowd, On This Farm He Had a Cow, Ink and digital color. 2010.                     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409460007135-6XVTO1F2GG65BZGMC260/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - On Drawing and Citizenship D.B. Dowd, Trees near Grinnell, Iowa, gouache painting. 2009.                     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403819686603-Y6T1W06ZC63NSON9OC7F/24_prj_starkdale_cover.jpg Graphic Tales - On Drawing and Citizenship D.B. Dowd, Animation Still, Scenes from Starkdale, Ohio, 2006-7.                   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409460520208-UNK61KMLXFY88GBNOXLR/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - On Drawing and Citizenship D.B. Dowd, Animation Still, Scenes from Starkdale, Ohio, 2006-7.                 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1409460048551-JDZV2UXT9U7VU49I95HF/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - On Drawing and Citizenship D.B. Dowd, Michigan Drydock, gouache painting. 2008. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/ink-as-architecture monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403887362697-KI2BBGS0DKDHYLBN3YKN/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Ink as Architecture Designer uncredited, McDonald's Custom Built Hamburgers, design for paper cup, 1957 (?) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403887392093-P1KQDH7OWAREDY8XMHPD/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Ink as Architecture Lowell Hess, two-color spot illustration for Collier's Weekly, undated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403886057235-QZ16BY93RM16Y9ULPGF3/Hess_2color_7.jpg Graphic Tales - Ink as Architecture Lowell Hess, two-color spot illustration for Collier's Weekly, undated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403886947514-82K11VSOI00YPLCUT60X/Untitled.jpg Graphic Tales - Ink as Architecture Rea Irvin, Everybody was Mr. and Mrs. J. Dinsmore Tew, illustration for Snoot if you Must, by Lucius Beebe. 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403887420641-LYT3NJVUXFV2AH3N7UE5/Hess_2color_9.jpg Graphic Tales - Ink as Architecture Lowell Hess, spot illustration for Collier's Weekly (?), July 1957.                           https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403887446086-HH568K1L5ET6C5XT84KB/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Ink as Architecture Lowell Hess, fiction illustration for Who's afraid of the big bad bug? Every Woman Magazine, June 1951. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403887029132-QS2ZYTG7B2J6TUJI6441/Hess_2color_Bug_Gun_left-1.jpg Graphic Tales - Ink as Architecture Lowell Hess, detail, Who's afraid of the big bad bug? https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/an-exchange monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403820104086-BFURB71FGLFRXLVY22AO/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - An Exchange Ad for Deep Sea diving school in Popular Mechanics, August 1950, courtesy of the blog Modern Mechanics. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/poetic-reportage monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403818078128-IF5W0M4MW3DU42GPL8T0/meredith_nelson_3.jpg Graphic Tales - Poetic Reportage Meredith Nelson, Russian Reportage Series, 2009.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403818096580-6613VPH5004TDP8BUJMV/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Poetic Reportage   Nelson, East St. Louis, Illinois, 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403818110095-070L2KHMSGVSCTYP4YJG/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Poetic Reportage   Nelson, Russian Reportage, 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403818128527-6VBV5G25XKAWCAF6EFQO/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Poetic Reportage   Nelson, Russian Reportage, 2009. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/toby-thane-neighbors monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403817937886-YEEX6AG6KCUC6PA8BY70/TTNeighbors1.jpg Graphic Tales - Toby Thane Neighbors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403817958029-CR9SSH1HSB0O9TWKC4CO/TTNeighbors2.jpg Graphic Tales - Toby Thane Neighbors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403817971961-N9PVE1QPEN1WR1GTOYK9/TTNeighbors3.jpg Graphic Tales - Toby Thane Neighbors https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/packing-for-paradise-what-to-bring monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403817720236-8U4TPE0A65W0JXEFK9JX/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Packing for Paradise: What to Bring? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403817742314-A8REO0ZENO0MYC4P7UWR/Leyendecker_Kuppenheimer_Mermaid_c1930_72dpi+copy.jpg Graphic Tales - Packing for Paradise: What to Bring? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403817764752-65TPTCZ7UODI61HOA8YW/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Packing for Paradise: What to Bring? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403817801955-VUO8NN6QZJAC5XJT0R2O/image-asset.png Graphic Tales - Packing for Paradise: What to Bring? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403817819612-DOEJ3BFKZVNALHFNLYJW/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Packing for Paradise: What to Bring? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403817855293-J92C0FP12PDLFN8DKL30/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Packing for Paradise: What to Bring? https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/of-judgment-serpents monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403817558348-GBKV6JWPVDQTMGZYVNY1/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Of Judgment & Serpents Sculptor Unknown, Laocoön and His Sons, Marble, Roman production, mid-1st Century CE. Excavated in 1506, housed in the Vatican Museum.                                         https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403817579487-63GKXUZ64KQLYTPNMSAN/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Of Judgment & Serpents Jay Ward, producer, still from "Peabody's Improbable HIstory," a recurring feature on the animated television show, Rocky and Bullwinkle, 1959-64. Note the "marble" Peabody wrestling with sea serpent in background, over Sherman's shoulder. An explicit Laocoön quote.                               https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403817614872-8G6IEPWGDGG7NOF1AJO2/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Of Judgment & Serpents Jay Ward, producer, still from "Peabody's Improbable HIstory," https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/class-tomorrow-greenberg-and-rockwell-together-again monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403817365448-MWEMUHT8BHYQIUFT1TQD/Shuffletons_Barbershop_300.jpg Graphic Tales - Class Tomorrow: Greenberg and Rockwell, Together Again! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403817386786-I83VA50VG22S3GVJX9AI/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Class Tomorrow: Greenberg and Rockwell, Together Again! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403817408110-A9J6BEU94DPHUEUKFYZN/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Class Tomorrow: Greenberg and Rockwell, Together Again! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403817427328-UTBZWHMJXY3GFWK8OO42/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Class Tomorrow: Greenberg and Rockwell, Together Again! https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/cars-and-trucks monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403819211209-99JIGGZFYIRCTDGNMF7A/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Cars and Trucks Cars and Trucks. A Little Golden Book, Illustrated by Richard Scarry. Golden Press, New York. 1951. Golden Books were jointly produced by Simon & Shuster, New York, and Western Publishing Company, Inc., Racine, Wisconsin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403819255369-NQESITAVJ8R11XHJS8XZ/cars%26trucks5_lowres.jpg Graphic Tales - Cars and Trucks Cars and Trucks. A Little Golden Book, Illustrated by Richard Scarry. Golden Press, New York. 1951. Golden Books were jointly produced by Simon & Shuster, New York, and Western Publishing Company, Inc., Racine, Wisconsin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403819240019-E7S9EI0ZP1854FV4GE41/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Cars and Trucks Cars and Trucks. A Little Golden Book, Illustrated by Richard Scarry. Golden Press, New York. 1951. Golden Books were jointly produced by Simon & Shuster, New York, and Western Publishing Company, Inc., Racine, Wisconsin. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/happy-birthday-david-d-dowd-jr monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403818257528-MNE261K7FDPWCCGV1AEJ/Disney1932_FootballGame1_Dad.jpg Graphic Tales - Happy Birthday, David D. Dowd, Jr.! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403818271354-XAL6NWJEXXGHZJ77YFVX/Saalburg-Esquire-030035_Dad.jpg Graphic Tales - Happy Birthday, David D. Dowd, Jr.! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403818290227-TA8VIJBJVSJK5491YFEO/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Happy Birthday, David D. Dowd, Jr.! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403818326282-QTC41C4COWRK6TI0TO43/how-theyre-acting.jpg Graphic Tales - Happy Birthday, David D. Dowd, Jr.! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403818335677-E0XJFN7QHRLQELFF4PGB/disney-touchdown-poster.jpg Graphic Tales - Happy Birthday, David D. Dowd, Jr.! https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/chevron-supreme-1958 monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403819078699-O91IES7GSB9ANUCBOQ0W/ChevronSupreme1.jpg Graphic Tales - Chevron Supreme, 1958 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403819103626-YJBPVF7M53N67KZWZRE4/ChevronSupreme2.jpg Graphic Tales - Chevron Supreme, 1958 https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/jean-paul-fuzzy-wuzzy monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403888698144-BALXI03KHU0O7JH4D8TQ/where-the-wild-things-are-movie-still.jpg Graphic Tales - Jean-Paul Fuzzy Wuzzy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403888724058-8SFSQW226QL9XB0ZX665/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Jean-Paul Fuzzy Wuzzy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403888748655-YJLT2L7U0GNA8UBX4HXX/wildthingsare-fl-01.jpg Graphic Tales - Jean-Paul Fuzzy Wuzzy https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/in-praise-of-bernie-fuchs monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403888448079-BN9Q1AK1OO7H1T64PT2M/SI_Fuchs_040361.jpg Graphic Tales - In Praise of Bernie Fuchs Bernie Fuchs Sports Illustrated cover from 1961 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403888470599-13HCF4IJX3F4ZKGRPNTT/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - In Praise of Bernie Fuchs Bernie Fuchs Sports Illustrated cover from 1970 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403888481797-SL4HTEMFBFMEW71DXCF6/SI_Fuchs_091674.jpg Graphic Tales - In Praise of Bernie Fuchs Bernie Fuchs Sports Illustrated cover from 1974 https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/space-by-implication monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403888230683-N4P4628TNADP7I1RH7MF/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Space by Implication https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403888245234-1G36WG993ZSK2XTRZFNG/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Space by Implication https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403888222292-835LZQ76AA6300TU9E2Z/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Space by Implication https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403888300848-933LUS87XK3MJ6W3NRRK/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Space by Implication https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403888334342-3VQOMZQEKVEXO3KM3KDV/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Space by Implication https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/figures-and-conventions monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403888001972-7STIWBWYRNBXOCCT8PYO/VisualWorlds_Vis_Aid_low-res.jpg Graphic Tales - Figures and Conventions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403888022936-6G9D18E1J9741I6P0PE6/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Figures and Conventions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403888082176-RMPXVY4EVPVU4OYX3YXI/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Figures and Conventions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403888057812-XTM1SBE6ISQU5KJ79KDM/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Figures and Conventions https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/the-offhand-thing monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403887703930-XS31GQAEK7LI3D4KGCW7/dbdowd_airport_controltower.jpg Graphic Tales - The Offhand Thing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403887732698-XA1B6XFGQD0FW1V1KF6A/Dowd_planner_Jun07_Jan08.jpg Graphic Tales - The Offhand Thing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403887753728-OODFJW70I4ZYDWTYKM3N/Dowd_holyweek08.jpg Graphic Tales - The Offhand Thing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403887784794-A5GZGW95JM2YNQ1WPKAX/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - The Offhand Thing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403887807374-OV9ZUG5JUZEO8NPIE4T0/Dowd_thanksgiving_marginalia_07.jpg Graphic Tales - The Offhand Thing https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/a-curators-perspective monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403890614839-F5SGCO50QLWVFF47L3PC/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - A Curator's Perspective Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, Two Sisters, Valencia, 1909; oil on canvas; now in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, once in the collection of the Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM).             https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403890585761-1MWJ8IUE4KJKAWQFKAQR/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - A Curator's Perspective Under the Awning, 1910, the only Sorolla painting SLAM kept. Oil on canvas; Collection of the Saint Louis Art Museum https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2015/1/20/a-terrible-day monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1421769503847-M3GQY7EBGX25SNDF7WLD/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - A Terrible Day https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/a-noseful-of-that monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403890455752-3MQY9DOY0XKX4608TLSV/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - A Noseful of That Robert O. Reid, fiction illustration, unknown issue of Colliers, circa 1940. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403890476759-YMDX3SY163IQYJIZ1NPP/Reid-Colliers-082639.jpg Graphic Tales - A Noseful of That Robert O. Reid, interior illustration for the August 26, 1939 edition of Collier's. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/the-new-visuality monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403890187026-TTWBHLQ6PSSG1XSDK1I0/JBL_OpeningCeremony_1600.jpg Graphic Tales - The New Visuality Photo credit unavailable, Photograph from inside the "Bird's Nest," opening ceremonies, Beijing Olympics, China, August 8, 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403889890668-UTHJ2GL19J3CNWZWZFBG/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - The New Visuality Gustave Moreau, Oedipus and Sphinx, 1864 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403889918879-GTSUSQ2HGB4DU47P85P7/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - The New Visuality Winslow Homer, Rebel Soldiers on Night Patrol, Harper's Weekly, May 17, 1862 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403889940569-QSN6IDJPBGT5CYXXMTYF/YorkCountyPennsylvania_severeweather_0602_2006+copy.gif Graphic Tales - The New Visuality Reflectivity scan showing thunderhead volume, York County, Pennsylvania, June 2, 2006, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403889964956-1I4R2MEKSRS1M4U4LE87/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - The New Visuality Meret Oppenheim, Fur-lined Teacup, 1936 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403889992319-N8OVYXAGT1YV8LUNB8AI/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - The New Visuality Ken Levine, game designer, Screen Shot from BioShock, a first-person shooter game developed by Irrational Games (now known as 2K Boston/2K Australia), 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403890025366-HI54WB0507HLYBWVD631/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - The New Visuality Ben Shahn,Hebrew Alphabet, date unavailable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403890068706-UUA52NC6G75LOAJLWKBR/abu-ghraib2.jpg Graphic Tales - The New Visuality Photo credit uncertain (Charles Graner?); Prisoner at Abu Ghraib Prison, Iraq, 2004 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403890084545-YR0SWPT0SE4ZIDVHVP45/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - The New Visuality Illustrator uncredited, Actors Card, Old Gypsy Fortune-Telling game, Whitman Publishing, Racine Wisconsin, 1936 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403890123463-H1JP8ONKM2UZKQX3B2F1/Beijing_opening_dancing_written_characters.jpg Graphic Tales - The New Visuality U.S. Army photo by Tim Hipps, Chinese Dancers Emerging from "Moveable Type Blocks," opening ceremonies Beijing Olympics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403890154263-99E6OGDT7U1E9UR0RKOT/dowd_100fly_ozarks_2009_smaller+copy.jpg Graphic Tales - The New Visuality finally, for the record, to establish that I'm not a couch potato who brandishes sports metaphors cheaply, that's me swimming the 100 butterfly (if not especially fast) at the Ozark Zone SCY Masters Swimming Meet in March of this year; Photograph by Andrew Dowd (my son, whose photoblog may be seen here.) https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/i-r-3-avant-garde-and-twitch monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403889437750-ECS612SDVVD2NLAFBBZS/Flora_pg42_1953-19561.jpg Graphic Tales - 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I & R 3: Avant-Garde and Twitch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403889684134-2N1YNPIJA0GPKDV2DPAC/ware-corrigan-lamp1.jpg Graphic Tales - I & R 3: Avant-Garde and Twitch https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/illustration-and-resentment-2-kerry-james-marshall monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403889013202-88B9R65SVK2UY2LVAFNJ/marshall-bettergardens.jpg Graphic Tales - Illustration and Resentment 2: Kerry James Marshall Kerry James Marshall, Better Homes, Better Gardens, 1994 [note the art historical reference to Expulsion from the Garden scenes in the placement and orientation of the figures] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403889034813-KRYPXIJHRIO61UUQT3EE/sargent9.jpg Graphic Tales - Illustration and Resentment 2: Kerry James Marshall John Singer Sargent, The Wyndam Sisters, 1899 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403889052187-IHB1ZJWXFK1JDBZ3X8PR/Marden_Uxmal_91-93.jpg Graphic Tales - Illustration and Resentment 2: Kerry James Marshall Marshall, Watts 1963, 1995 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403889203711-6QE8D7HS6FMIL7ICHMU2/Marshall_Watts_1963.jpg Graphic Tales - Illustration and Resentment 2: Kerry James Marshall Brice Marden,Uxmal, 1991-93 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403889140827-KWCYV5AV54QT12NEEH78/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Illustration and Resentment 2: Kerry James Marshall Marshall, Our Town, 1995 https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/illustration-and-resentment-1-panter-rumble monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403892125154-NR4RD3724EPCNHOZ539R/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Illustration and Resentment 1: Panter Rumble https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403892177734-VJ9ZMTH5ZOUJIRTLID1I/18_powers_inkwash_L.jpg Graphic Tales - Illustration and Resentment 1: Panter Rumble https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403892207128-97DW8VXSLX4Z9CO9M0MJ/dicktracy-color.jpg Graphic Tales - Illustration and Resentment 1: Panter Rumble https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403892244573-K6F3EZOZN0J0QZ79VVG5/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Illustration and Resentment 1: Panter Rumble https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403892277515-JOM89S0NNLFJK3LYQNNE/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Illustration and Resentment 1: Panter Rumble https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/watchmen-1-book-report monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403891892115-FYGVZ5UMNOICC2E9UL2S/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Watchmen 1: Book Report Promotional digital desktop, Watchmen motion picture, 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403891909463-S03MRIXA2B5KBTFQWSGX/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Watchmen 1: Book Report Jack Kirby, Ben Grimm, panel from an issue of The Fantastic Four, 1964 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403891929647-DB5DEKGSXEINZV0OQ4C7/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Watchmen 1: Book Report Seth, page 115 from It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken, 1996 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403891955543-XXLOKQKNQUK4LEOJ0YG4/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Watchmen 1: Book Report Joe Shuster, cover, Action Comics #33, February 1939 https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/commercial-modernism-grab-bag monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403891537990-VPOD1MER20QEF62PE9IJ/searsandroebuck1900.jpg Graphic Tales - Commercial Modernism Grab Bag Illustration unattributed, Sears Roebuck Catalogue, 1900; image captures the reach of the mails, the advent of the woman-as-consumer, aggressive, vulgarian color, and some great display lettering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403891565944-O64K53IZ3CU9AAHF33Z2/OSullivan_Gettysburg_Reynolds.jpg Graphic Tales - Commercial Modernism Grab Bag Timothy O'Sullivan, The Field Where General Reynolds Fell, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, silver print, 1863; among other things, this photograph anticipates the dethroning of documentary illustration, then nearing its height in the Civil War era; from a purely visual perspective, the image highlights the new pictorial sensibility of the machine: the focus on the corpses brings the viewer's gaze down, very nearly past the horizon line, opening up an abstract field of composition unconcerned with the grand pictorialism of declamatory history painting–instead, a gritty look-at-that! as well as a new kind of two-dimensional design for images https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403891593537-QBC223Y60SRRX917HY3A/Yokohama_print_.jpg Graphic Tales - Commercial Modernism Grab Bag Hashimoto Sadahide, Picture of Western Traders at Yokohama Transporting Merchandise, 1861; here, a flattened-space window onto the east-west exchange which, moving from Japan to Europe and America, had such an influence on visual modernism, dubbed japonisme by the French https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403891617941-0MZZCXDYN374J1BG6MCY/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Commercial Modernism Grab Bag Le Bois Protat, the earliest extant European woodcut block known, dated to 1380; a historically signficant item, but also, a perfectly good example of one-color line art, just like the next example https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403891744162-M7UBWY5B42GCPPIFWDEL/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Commercial Modernism Grab Bag Unattributed, El Exigente, the choosy coffee buyer, packaging illustration for Savarin Coffee, c.1977 https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/waiting-pictured monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403891279918-HHWYWNX215XW4JAN32Q5/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Waiting, Pictured https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403891302159-G3A3WDX2MP8R46UF8LJT/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Waiting, Pictured https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403891331303-054P6I4TP76RM3JN058K/dbdowd_Characters_Waiting_det_car_smaller.jpg Graphic Tales - Waiting, Pictured https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403891368475-5TEOHM0MFWER05ALFQW3/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Waiting, Pictured https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/27/leyendecker-parrish-sontag monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403890811620-OOBIXZG02BJMB5ICKRMF/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Leyendecker, Parrish & Sontag J.C. Leyendecker, Cupid, Saturday Evening Post cover, February 15, 1936 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403890835021-3TSR9JRNEIR3YG8YUEZW/parrish-dinkybird1.jpg Graphic Tales - Leyendecker, Parrish & Sontag Maxfield Parrish, Dinkybird, 1904 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403890859577-UY2177I6FZOVNYRM6CYU/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Leyendecker, Parrish & Sontag Leyendecker, six Saturday Evening Post covers, 1923-24 (with particular note of the homoeroticized lifeguard, middle bottom row) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403890888753-F9SLEFAOL6WOLCR53QGG/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Leyendecker, Parrish & Sontag Maxfield Parrish, Daybreak, 1922. This image, of vaguely sexualized pre-adolescent girls decamped to a sunwashed Arcadian villa, was issued as a single sheet lithographic print for home sales in 1922. It sold fantastic numbers of copies. It has been reliably estimated that Daybreak appeared on a wall in 1 out of every 4 American homes by 1930. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403890951856-WH8SMA7A7CFTMCKGDOTT/Leyendecker_Kuppenheimer_Mermaid_c1930_72dpi.jpg Graphic Tales - Leyendecker, Parrish & Sontag Leyendecker, Kuppenheimer Clothing ad (with mermaid!), circa 1930 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403890979055-BBLVQR2SWH0247VKM5T9/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Leyendecker, Parrish & Sontag Leyendecker, Arrow Collar ad, Charles Beach, model, 1922 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403891011993-D9QHUONKN5NSMMJE4633/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Leyendecker, Parrish & Sontag Leyendecker, Watering the Lillies, Saturday Evening Post cover, March 27, 1937 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403891040862-ZCTM3HGL23KY6ZJNX8DV/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Leyendecker, Parrish & Sontag Leyendecker, Baby Forges Ahead, Saturday Evening Post cover, December, 1930 https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/canyonlands-and-arches-spared-industrial-scenes monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403817154412-FPRMSUZ414RLN1CZ7EOZ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Canyonlands and Arches Spared Industrial Scenes Photograph from the Grand Valley Trail, at the southern end of the Island in the Sky mesa in Canyonlands National Park. The canyon walls at the convergence of the Colorado and Green Rivers are visible beyond the rock shelf that dominates the image. 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Jose Clemente Orozco, The Epic of American Civilization, fresco cycle, Baker Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. 1932-34. Panel 11, Cortez and the Cross.                     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403813927241-J8D4SSURL11LMMAEMNX0/Orozco14.jpg Graphic Tales - Orozco to Dartmouth: Kilroy Was Here! Orozco, Dartmouth fresco cycle, Panel 12, The Machine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403813952778-GTDQXOJD6K3K5JV3OQ60/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Orozco to Dartmouth: Kilroy Was Here! Norman Rockwell, The Art Critic, Saturday Evening Post cover illustration, April 16, 1955. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1405433584429-BS3JNLEWUEJPOGCKF47X/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Orozco to Dartmouth: Kilroy Was Here! Norman Rockwell, Murder in Mississippi, story illustration for "Southern Justice," Look magazine, June 29, 1965. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403813971094-0XUHNMA5T1L50PNEOG5T/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Orozco to Dartmouth: Kilroy Was Here! Buster Keaton in The General, 1926. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403814006847-XHMMH0SRL19LOKTVLUDW/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Orozco to Dartmouth: Kilroy Was Here! Orozco, Dartmouth fresco cycle, Panel 17, Modern Human Sacrifice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403814029192-UF2KORW1DBCVFY43BZN0/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Orozco to Dartmouth: Kilroy Was Here! Orozco, Dartmouth fresco cycle, Panel 15, Gods of the Modern World. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403814061968-I652USWP02SFBKQX8FWP/Orozco16.jpg Graphic Tales - Orozco to Dartmouth: Kilroy Was Here! 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Forget Me!, 1962 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403813081048-7R2FJL3ZSYW4B153VIXH/Davis-pl153-1956.jpg Graphic Tales - Painted Ink, Printed Balloons Stuart Davis, Colonial Cubism, 1956 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403813099327-3CTGS3TM2D36NNPLW8GI/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Painted Ink, Printed Balloons Lichtenstein, Happy Tears, 1964 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403813141804-T524MD0BI0H843DU2YDW/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Painted Ink, Printed Balloons Milt Caniff, Terry and the Pirates Sunday strip, single panel, 1944 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403813154187-EFNS4XZOPND7OKBBKHSQ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Painted Ink, Printed Balloons Caniff, Terry, daily strip panel, 1937 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403813179910-4SCEEV7XN3AQULWAMTSJ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - 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Productive Restrictions Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom (Astro Boy in English), 1963. 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The show ran in Japan from 1963 to 1966. An American version dubbed in English ran on NBC during the same period. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403811846817-VZ866Z4IC687J8BCDIBO/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Productive Restrictions Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom (Astro Boy in English), 1963. The show ran in Japan from 1963 to 1966. An American version dubbed in English ran on NBC during the same period. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403811861040-WLS6ZMXYK2RKZO084OQE/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Productive Restrictions Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom (Astro Boy in English), 1963. The show ran in Japan from 1963 to 1966. An American version dubbed in English ran on NBC during the same period. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403811889116-QJAF3CKIBE5R0ZHOIZ3V/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Productive Restrictions Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom (Astro Boy in English), 1963. The show ran in Japan from 1963 to 1966. An American version dubbed in English ran on NBC during the same period. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403811915857-SP938F9YY75NP39WBNLC/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Productive Restrictions Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom (Astro Boy in English), 1963. The show ran in Japan from 1963 to 1966. An American version dubbed in English ran on NBC during the same period. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403811928312-BGVIQHZRUHNKFUBSKZHE/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Productive Restrictions Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom (Astro Boy in English), 1963. The show ran in Japan from 1963 to 1966. An American version dubbed in English ran on NBC during the same period. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403811963172-P0ZJDT3EFVS9E3GTZ724/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Productive Restrictions Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom (Astro Boy in English), 1963. 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The show ran in Japan from 1963 to 1966. An American version dubbed in English ran on NBC during the same period. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/comics-cinema-stories-and-storyboarding monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1405546132249-ZJ06G9HFEH4Y7WG3UKBJ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Comics & Cinema: Stories and Storyboarding Osamu Tezuka, Astroboy, a still from the title sequence for the television show of the same name. 1962. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1405546275799-64CBT8URHY792NBKZOMZ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Comics & Cinema: Stories and Storyboarding Tezuka, still from Astroboy title sequence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403811098488-W9U4LNSAG20GX9I4J6DV/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Comics & Cinema: Stories and Storyboarding Walt Disney Studios, storyboard frame with textual description, Steamboat Willie, 1928               https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403811137329-IVCPAUUKWBCWTAG1KVHZ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Comics & Cinema: Stories and Storyboarding Wilhelm Busch, bilderbogen image sequence, Potted Peter, 1864                                                       https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403811077404-6ZCXGZIVA1NVYVMLZZEQ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Comics & Cinema: Stories and Storyboarding Milton Caniff, Terry and the Pirates Sunday masthead, December 29, 1946 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403811185955-HEEPMGCSSC7MPMWYKWAJ/Caniff_frames1_122946.jpg Graphic Tales - Comics & Cinema: Stories and Storyboarding Caniff, a sequence of panels from Terry, December 29, 1946 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403811221874-2PNZ4QR62071CPAIPZ4J/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Comics & Cinema: Stories and Storyboarding https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403811264677-OW73ZAKU5M09KGSF4OJG/Caniff_frames3_122946.jpg Graphic Tales - Comics & Cinema: Stories and Storyboarding https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403811316254-Y4YOA0X3V4QG4TJTNXKJ/Caniff_frames4_46.jpg Graphic Tales - Comics & Cinema: Stories and Storyboarding                       https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403811358070-XBG81543NS3IGNKAOYWA/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Comics & Cinema: Stories and Storyboarding Hergé, comic book page, The Secret of the Unicorn, Volume 11 in The Adventures of Tintin, 1942-43 https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/illustrators-and-culture monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403810790782-M866GCD4NUAXGGRZ9TD4/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Illustrators and Culture https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/larry-rivers-robert-weaver-comparanda monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403805195020-7W095RHQOEQESBAQPQ86/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Larry Rivers & Robert Weaver: Comparanda Larry Rivers, Dutch Masters, 1991 (a restatement in print form of earlier works) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403805226911-E11V2VE4EPF4D1LH3RCB/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Larry Rivers & Robert Weaver: Comparanda Larry Rivers, Parts of the Face, circa 1960 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403805262957-WU1OGRXCS7KZJMROIDS8/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Larry Rivers & Robert Weaver: Comparanda Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403805317325-PFH3YSYDLX4YYDT3M10O/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Larry Rivers & Robert Weaver: Comparanda Larry Rivers, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1953 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403805337606-4KSN2LFPD2RLT42ZPDJR/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Larry Rivers & Robert Weaver: Comparanda Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm, 1952 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403805387392-34ZPM70RYLMGTNOQB49W/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Larry Rivers & Robert Weaver: Comparanda Andy Warhol, Brillo Box, 1964 Warhol, installation shot of same https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403805419777-AIVA6OWYHRQHY7SKHKZN/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Larry Rivers & Robert Weaver: Comparanda Larry Rivers, Africa, 1957(?) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403805446392-4Y9B09E4C7GHTVRB9CKB/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Larry Rivers & Robert Weaver: Comparanda Robert Weaver, illustration for Esquire, 1959 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403805480652-YHE0PPW225SXBU0ATHUK/Weaver_Kennedy1_det1.jpg Graphic Tales - Larry Rivers & Robert Weaver: Comparanda Robert Weaver, illustration for Esquire, 1959 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403805533924-8QJ8SD8596R2OCISSJG2/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Larry Rivers & Robert Weaver: Comparanda Robert Weaver, illustrations for Sports Illustrated, feature on Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers, date uncertain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403805557183-J6CZ2CT6W3DSG905W9R6/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Larry Rivers & Robert Weaver: Comparanda Robert Weaver, Brief Lives, Pool Hall, date uncertain https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/earles-sleeping-beauty-big-reptiles monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403803818328-TYF07HCZABG9VJ6HBS4C/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Earle's Sleeping Beauty & Big Reptiles Eyvind Earle, production design, Sleeping Beauty, Walt Disney Studios, 1959 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403803854267-ALZ3OMGLSAISD1369JI4/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Earle's Sleeping Beauty & Big Reptiles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403803880184-1F9WMVUAB48YB6G7R2X5/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Earle's Sleeping Beauty & Big Reptiles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403803912455-J3OJPG901D3JEXRVCBF9/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Earle's Sleeping Beauty & Big Reptiles Reference photographs, uncredited, Sleeping Beauty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403803946563-O5QUM4TAHZ47UWE33TW7/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Earle's Sleeping Beauty & Big Reptiles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403803973713-50KSI4ADRG9607CH94W5/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - 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Earle's Sleeping Beauty & Big Reptiles Production still, Episode 18, "The Arena,"Star Trek. Aired January 19, 1967 https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/i-love-a-parade monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403804407268-WP8NURHKAQWTRSOT6L9A/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - I Love a Parade https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/aristotle-and-comics monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403799995077-IEAEPEVFROP5ASQCQOYP/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Aristotle and Comics Bob Kane, Sunday newspaper strip, Batman, panel showing Two-Face. 1946.                   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403800158711-B3XSSXJ4JYZG94TZV73U/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Aristotle and Comics Chris Ware, page from Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth, Acme Novelty Library, serialized 1995-2000. Graphic novel compiled and published 2000 by Pantheon.                 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403800214879-G8E74ITKQFBKY7MG90SO/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Aristotle and Comics Winsor McCay, Little Nemo and Impy clamber over buildings in Manhattan, Little Nemo in Slumberland, New York Herald, September 22, 1907 https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/four-color-puzzles monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403803066651-QV3HY22C4XL9H7QS6JVW/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Four-Color Puzzles Joseph Low, illustrated entries for "fair," “trains" and "trap," Rainbow Dictionary, World Publishing Company, Cleveland, 1947 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403803093586-YOLCZPMLQX2FDDIAKZF0/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Four-Color Puzzles Joseph Low, illustrated entries for "fair," “trains" and "trap," Rainbow Dictionary, World Publishing Company, Cleveland, 1947 https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/on-purposive-images-and-analytical-separatism monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403802751457-E9WSHVABJ9V2S76WIFGV/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - On Purposive Images and Analytical Separatism Package design, New Shinola Scuff Armor for white shoes. A product of Best Foods, a division of Corn Products Company, Indianapolis, Indiana. Circa 1960 https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/in-the-cultural-garage monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403802938442-0RKBUG9TKWBGAAVLT6LL/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - In the Cultural Garage R.F. Outcault, "Buster Brown" comic reprint in Buster Brown's Antics, 1903. The Brown Shoe Company and Washington University are in conversation about bringing the Brown Shoe Archives to the Modern Graphic History Library, where they will provide a wonderful opportunity to study the development of modern merchandising and cartooning, among many other things. The deal has not been finalized, but the company authorized us to mention it in the MGHL catalogue as a developing story. An enlightened and generous move, on the company's part. I have my fingers crossed; I worked with the collection in curating a show in 2004, and it is fabulous resource. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/brief-note-on-the-primacy-of-pictorial-function monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403802638363-674CIQ9DS5W7LCG6YGVH/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Brief Note on the Primacy of Pictorial Function T.D Skidmore, fiction illustration in Collier's, October 17, 1931 https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/commercial-images-an-evolutionary-scheme monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403802516803-HY77JHMR070GHMNF4BZL/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Commercial Images: An Evolutionary Scheme Content copyright DB Dowd, 2007; design by Mike Costelloe; art direction by Sarah Phares https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/chief-wahoo-exacts-karmic-penalty-sox-in-7 monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403801901463-D07EIZ6ZISD7VWG32Y3A/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Chief Wahoo Exacts Karmic Penalty; Sox in 7 Chief Wahoo figure with neon tracing, once mounted atop Municipal Stadium, Cleveland. Stadium razed in 1996. Sign moved to the Western Reserve History Society in the University Circle district, on Cleveland's East Side. Contextualizing narrative presented on placard next to display. Figure approximately 15 feet tall. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/indian-summer-roundup-wahoo-meets-herbie monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403801488809-RDZUZU1IZSSJ7A3S9911/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Indian Summer Roundup: Wahoo Meets Herbie Exhibition case, Milwaukee Braves, 1953-1965, Wisconsin Historical Society, 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403801545743-7PLFRTI8WI2PTYIX1MV2/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Indian Summer Roundup: Wahoo Meets Herbie Todd Peterson, The Aviary, 2005 [?] screenprint https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403801574150-C6CA599ENEO0C5W2POHP/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Indian Summer Roundup: Wahoo Meets Herbie Eric Wells, news photograph, The MetroWest Daily News, Framingham, Massachusetts, January 9, 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403801621160-XTBKIYFYYGM6PC31HOUC/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Indian Summer Roundup: Wahoo Meets Herbie Political Map, State of Nebraska, The New International Encyclopedia, Dodd Mead and Company, New York, 1908 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403801655437-UD96A3XZ7KFOK5CW54UW/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Indian Summer Roundup: Wahoo Meets Herbie Herbie Husker, University of Nebraska Mascot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403801696558-COM2KW4Z4N8D1XN1XP06/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Indian Summer Roundup: Wahoo Meets Herbie Osamu Tezuka, still from Astro Boy title sequence, Tezuka Productions, 1962 https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/wahoo-yellowpony-and-graphic-indians monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403801010383-NI4P1AOXK66NF8CQT74P/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Wahoo, Yellowpony and Graphic Indians Indian Chief smoking “peace pipe” with boy, When a Cowboy Needs a Horse, Walt Disney Productions, 1956, directed by Bill Justice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403801051071-EHEULS26SUPA0N4UZ3DR/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Wahoo, Yellowpony and Graphic Indians Chester Gould, Dick Tracy comic book cover, n.d. Dell Publications https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403801094771-TDENRTZ188N216D0TEJ1/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Wahoo, Yellowpony and Graphic Indians Chester Gould, Dick Tracy comic book cover, n.d. Dell Publications https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403801137766-OV32IPYHPY40ADS8UQ5I/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Wahoo, Yellowpony and Graphic Indians Joseph Low, cover illustration for “Indians,” Rainbow Dictionary, World Publishing Company, Cleveland, 1947 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403801168414-3O5TGZ7B7GSJY3OHK90C/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Wahoo, Yellowpony and Graphic Indians Joseph Low, entry for “Indians,” Rainbow Dictionary, World Publishing Company, Cleveland, 1947 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403801206408-VZQNCX8PXN4ETB57V971/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Wahoo, Yellowpony and Graphic Indians animation still depicting easily foiled Indian ambush from When a Cowboy Needs a Horse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403801229370-8U2AWVGOAI4R6E38GX0K/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Wahoo, Yellowpony and Graphic Indians animation still depicting easily foiled Indian ambush from When a Cowboy Needs a Horse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403801251037-YJO4TUF7CPJ2J3VHEPY2/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Wahoo, Yellowpony and Graphic Indians animation still depicting easily foiled Indian ambush from When a Cowboy Needs a Horse https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/26/the-cleveland-stereotypes monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403800462396-HHCE5A79SV1FLMGHUFMP/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - The Cleveland Stereotypes Jeff Suntala, Bob Feller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403800500027-92JJIL547ATI7MFJEJHL/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - The Cleveland Stereotypes Chief Wahoo logotype, in use from 1951 to 1972, and again since 1980 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403800529217-RQ75GE80623NZHHY6VH4/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - The Cleveland Stereotypes Erwin Hess, cover art for Big Chief Wahoo and the Magic Lamp, a Better Little Book, Whitman Publishing, 1940 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403800599193-079O6Q4XSJ4POZDGKX5S/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - The Cleveland Stereotypes D.B. Dowd, "Spirit Animal Pheasant," reduction linocut from Visit Mohicanland, 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403800636435-WL0PJC82K2HA1VMIXHGN/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - The Cleveland Stereotypes Chief Wahoo logotype, in use from 1946 to 1950 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403800681685-EE73ZU5UPZ99AFJYUIBH/AlvisandMcDowellComposite.jpg Graphic Tales - The Cleveland Stereotypes baseball cards, Max Alvis and Sam McDowell, 1964 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403800719291-2FJO3AQ14C164P9BJNFP/clevelmu.jpg Graphic Tales - The Cleveland Stereotypes scoreboard at cavernous Municipal Stadium on the Lakefront in Cleveland, opened in 1931, demolished in 1996 https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/20/a-considered-paean-to-goodnight-moon monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403897690668-VEYAY8FDR3A61RL7HY1J/hurd-moon-light2.jpg Graphic Tales - A Considered Paean to Goodnight, Moon Clement Hurd, illustration for Goodnight, Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown, published by Harper & Brothers, 1947.       https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403897741614-TJQFCM403Q3Q77HXDABD/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - A Considered Paean to Goodnight, Moon Clement Hurd, the concluding illustration in Goodnight, Moon. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/20/territory-v-spatial-displays-for-information monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403300438505-49MUHGZI2DEIFE35HJZY/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Territory V: Spatial Displays for Information Stuart Davis, Landscape with Garage Lights, 1932 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403300480565-2WAFJTKKPFEX9I7NTPO1/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Territory V: Spatial Displays for Information Philip Guston, Martial Memory, 1941. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403300860259-TDL4DB0RYOIJRT1NO8JR/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Territory V: Spatial Displays for Information Frederick Richardson, “Cold and Raw the North Winds Blow,” in the Volland Edition Mother Goose, 1915 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403300512241-8EQO13D812MO9IBABR2U/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Territory V: Spatial Displays for Information John Emslie, The Earth’s Annual Revolution Around the Sun, James Reynolds and Sons, London, 1851 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403300542489-U6GQVS2IBRCG5UMIUM9V/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Territory V: Spatial Displays for Information Designer uncredited, infographic on the development of the letter E, The World Book Encyclopedia, 1964 edition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403300573749-7EQWW9BA34E5BVOV5NWJ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Territory V: Spatial Displays for Information J. Otto Seibold, an array of boats in Mr. Lunch Borrows a Canoe, 1994. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403300658122-V43VU0D2QKIRFFID9XQP/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Territory V: Spatial Displays for Information Seibold, Mr. Lunch paddles over the top of the world, watched over by constellations, in Mr. Lunch Borrows a Canoe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403300687514-NDAUV7UJTT45ZDTGFNSI/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Territory V: Spatial Displays for Information illustrator uncredited, Schutzeinrichtungen II, in Meyer's Lexicon, 1894. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403300716102-6CSIYOZDYFBPMJLHO4YV/GermanEncycloInsects_scheme.jpg Graphic Tales - Territory V: Spatial Displays for Information Distribution of primary illustrated information, Schutzeinrichtungen II.                 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403300757156-ONIE3QO71U10OQF3TBTW/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Territory V: Spatial Displays for Information Clement Hurd, an early spread from Goodnight Moon, 1947. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/20/territory-iv-professional-labels monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403300029506-LURYK84EWQWHLGSY7M59/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Territory IV: Professional Labels Philip Guston, San Clemente, 1974 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403300058223-3KQHBYRN87GEI5EEG6F1/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Territory IV: Professional Labels Bob Flynn, Bewilderment, posted at Drip!(www.bobjinx.blogspot.com) on November 15, 2006 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403300086869-L67UXBMNHTF3D07ELXFG/leyendecker_arrow_dance.jpg Graphic Tales - Territory IV: Professional Labels J.C. Leyendecker, Arrow Shirt Ad, circa 1930 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403300126073-W6G2X10CGPJM748K0OCF/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Territory IV: Professional Labels Austin Briggs, Flash Gordon daily strip, 1940 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403300160826-UT4DQR7W2XJ1TGCDUAHB/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Territory IV: Professional Labels Guston, Painter's Table, 1970 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403300294582-2G4P3T0MGVJGYXIEJN0B/dowd-sd-81.jpg Graphic Tales - Territory IV: Professional Labels D.B. DowdSam the Dog, episode 81, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, December 19, 1998 https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/18/territory-iii-the-informational-image monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403111285468-6AVVRS885CV5NWTP7EG0/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Territory III: The Informational Image an uncredited, somewhat zany pictorial graph from a story on the American economy in the January 5, 1953 issue of Life magazine. I will return to this suite of illustrations in another post https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403111319714-LJ5V2MSHM8Z16RB3F6JG/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Territory III: The Informational Image John James Audobon, watercolor illustration of the Crested Caracara, or Brazilian Caracara Eagle (polyborus plancus), painted near St. Augustine, Florida on November 27, 1831 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403111357610-DJB2NA22JS8N9HCR2GMN/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Territory III: The Informational Image Pablo Picasso, Still Life with Skull and Pitcher, 1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403111400137-8AVB8R2BZQD5NOT4YJ5P/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Territory III: The Informational Image the work of the distinguished Mr. Emslie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403111427812-ETGXQASADANVNKN5V337/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Territory III: The Informational Image https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403111553099-0MCMJSI7BFZLFDLCHS87/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Territory III: The Informational Image an illustration of the neurological system from Meyers' Lexicon, a German encylopedia from 1894. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/18/defining-the-territory-i-rockwell-addendum monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403111067524-HXEAO6HWL92GTP1CRPUY/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Defining the Territory I: Rockwell Addendum Norman Rockwell, The Art Critic, Saturday Evening Post Cover, April 16, 1955. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/18/defining-the-territory-ii-plasticity monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403110597582-M3PDQESHBFD5EDP2X191/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Defining the Territory II: Plasticity Jim Flora, Columbia Records Publication Coda, August 1945     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403110613764-WHJSLVEEXLWN23UUV2EP/Davis_ParisRework_1959.jpg Graphic Tales - Defining the Territory II: Plasticity Stuart Davis, The Paris Bit, 1959, a reworking of Rue Lipp, a Parisian view from 1928.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403110626876-FMMQDII2RRGK6PQOY3T1/NebraskaHolidayVillaSign1.jpg Graphic Tales - Defining the Territory II: Plasticity Roadside signage, Beatrice, Nebraska, 2004   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403110638645-G06LWA1JT5XDDU219LCN/gillCap_deposition.jpg Graphic Tales - Defining the Territory II: Plasticity Eric Gill, deposition capital, The Four Gospels, Golden Cockerel Press, 1931 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403110679460-709F595JCS6L03NGLGTJ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Defining the Territory II: Plasticity Still from Genndy Tartakovsky's Samurai Jack pilot, 2001 https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/18/defining-the-territory-i-visualizing-fantasy monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403109925382-YFV8VUVEAGO85CX41OI8/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Defining the Territory I: Visualizing Fantasy The endpapers from Wyeth's Treasure Island, 1911; Howard Pyle, “Pirates used to do that to their captains now and then,” Illustration from “The Sea Robbers of New York” by Thomas A. Janvier. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403109963376-A941ZUDDHR1UL0IIZ624/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Defining the Territory I: Visualizing Fantasy Harper’s Monthly Magazine, November 1894. (Notation shows that the original painting was a gift to Fredric Remington, a fellow illustrator) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403110037100-QXV6ZVGPAKIT2ISH8X3R/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Defining the Territory I: Visualizing Fantasy Wonder Stories cover illustration, September 1935 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403110348994-KXNWAOHVXECODAJ8SPKP/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Defining the Territory I: Visualizing Fantasy film still from Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, 2004. https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/18/aspirations-intentions monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403108450256-TWUCBADMF1Z7491CMIZZ/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Aspirations & Intentions Harry Beckhoff, We went over to the paddock, a mob of Irene's picture fans tagging her. Two-color illustration for Collier's Weekly, January 23, 1937 https://www.dbdowd.com/graphic-tales-blog/2014/6/18/coming-soon monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403109581242-ARXYBOZ5DILJOV2A73L9/NY+top+brand.jpg Graphic Tales - Coming Soon Illustration uncredited, cover design for The Making of Modern America, published in 1960 by Houghton Mifflin.           https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403109636940-HQCUJIFFZU5CK11PUNEN/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Coming Soon Spot illustration uncredited, Making of Modern America, Table of Contents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403109390692-IH98YZLQQ4AMQB6FD38J/spot3.jpg Graphic Tales - Coming Soon Ditto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403109358678-2QQPV48BIY3BS3C6NQ5J/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Coming Soon Same. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1403109333298-A3T772MEXJKPP3TDKN5N/image-asset.jpeg Graphic Tales - Coming Soon Hey, is that guy French? 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Leyendecker, Sailors, Collier’s t cover illustration, November 10, 1917. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1576364182287-YHAL90GBZO98ENQ5C5F0/pic-19.jpg Illustration History - Joseph Christian Leyendecker (J. C.) J. C. Leyendecker, Oarsmen, Saturday Evening Post cover illustration, August 6, 1932. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1576364488693-MPO5B1M5JVJQV9HPOD9K/pic-72.jpg Illustration History - Joseph Christian Leyendecker (J. C.) J. C. Leyendecker, Thanksgiving 1628-1928, Saturday Evening Post cover illustration, November 24, 1928. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1576363999513-S0GKUUK7DLKTW9ODQ7QG/1916.-Joseph-Christian-Leyendecker-Football-Hero.-Colliers-November-18-1916-1.jpg Illustration History - Joseph Christian Leyendecker (J. C.) J. C. Leyendecker, Football Player, study for Saturday Evening Post cover illustration, 1916. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1576366012288-LV2H2ADSMZEEG7CJFNT2/Screen+Shot+2019-10-23+at+9.22.27+AM.png Illustration History - Joseph Christian Leyendecker (J. C.) J. C. Leyendecker, Goodbye Summer, Saturday Evening Post cover illustration, 1934. Leyendecker meets Jim Crow. The porter is a running trope on Post covers in the 30s and 40s. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2019/9/13/maxfield-parrish monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1576274258795-EW3UL2Z0SL08VWY5Q9HD/Parrish019_sm.jpg Illustration History - Maxfield Parrish Maxfield Parrish, Daybreak, illustration for home use as wall art, published by The House of Art, 1922. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1576274221997-LLSE8HE3B2WY7ID3ZLDD/Parrish011.jpg Illustration History - Maxfield Parrish Maxfield Parrish, The King and Queen Might Eat Thereof, and Noblemen Besides, Advertisement for Jell-O gelatin, 1922. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1576275005208-3FLGF1AFJ6A4LCJVULRH/Parrish_Golden_Age_page91.jpg Illustration History - Maxfield Parrish Maxfield Parrish, “On to the garden wall…” illustration for The Golden Age, by Kenneth Grahame, 1900. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1576275577729-7FY2LIA6NO100SFN0ITV/Screen+Shot+2019-12-13+at+4.18.56+PM.png Illustration History - Maxfield Parrish Maxfield Parrish, Ecstasy, illustration for Edison Mazda Lamps calendar, 1930. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1632318751957-0RG0CFARJ8JRH78YPPH3/Parrish_Contentment_detail.png Illustration History - Maxfield Parrish - Make it stand out Maxfield Parrish, detail from Contentment, an Edison Mazda Lamps calendar illustration from 1928. (This is the “girls on rocks” genre Parrish self-deprecatingly swore off in the 1930s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1576333781296-NKT5Y2WLUWGXL1C7ZBMD/Screen+Shot+2019-12-14+at+8.29.09+AM.png Illustration History - Maxfield Parrish Maxfield Parrish, Dusk, greeting card for Brown & Bigelow, 1942. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1576273578240-JQ5OOCB7N3O9BJ7G6UI9/Parrish021_sm.jpg Illustration History - Maxfield Parrish Maxfield Parrish, The Dinkey-Bird, illustration for Eugene Field poem in the Ladies Home Journal, reproduced soon thereafter in the book Poems of Childhood, 1904. (see below) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1632318555066-9USVLJBUC0SV9CMIWP25/Parrish_Fields_cover.jpg Illustration History - Maxfield Parrish - Make it stand out Maxfield Parrish, cover illustration for Poems of Childhood, by Eugene Field, Scribners, 1904. This was the first Parrish book to include full color illustrations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1576274789896-BO6JTTOMV0JIS27J3ROX/Parrish_Golden_Age_cover.jpg Illustration History - Maxfield Parrish Book cover for The Golden Age, by Kenneth Grahame, 1900. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1576333609975-SK5FGKO0FMHL5TQ4QLM0/5989203320_e67fa3fd35_k.jpg Illustration History - Maxfield Parrish Maxfield Parrish, advertising illustration for Djer-Kiss Toilet Water, 1917. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1576274813371-PTYBHV3DSJJ0D669W9R9/Parrish_Golden_Age_dragon.jpg Illustration History - Maxfield Parrish Maxfield Parrish, “Once more were damels rescued…” illustration for The Golden Age, by Kenneth Grahame, 1900. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1576333093557-11HKTOVT6IME6XU7JOUX/parrish-cinderella1.jpg Illustration History - Maxfield Parrish Maxfield Parrish, Cinderella, illustration for Harper’s Bazaar, 1914. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2019/8/14/edward-kemble monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1576044283988-RVJ6A07KANLCT0F7B5J7/Kemble001_June1890_crop_det2.jpg Illustration History - Edward W. Kemble [often, E.W.] E.W. Kemble, Bric-A-Brac, a feature captioned “The ‘Possum Hunt.” A detail from larger cartoon (see other reproductions) in Century Magazine, June 1890. The shabbily dressed peg-legged black man is involved in some physical comedy in pursuit of an opossum–a mammalian bottom-feeder, by convention the most contemptible quadruped. Ugly humor, by any measure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1576045279630-3Z9KR0HSP0B20D4GDN9R/kemble_edwa_1884_001.jpg Illustration History - Edward W. Kemble [often, E.W.] E.W. Kemble, Huckleberry Finn, Frontispiece from novel of the same name by Mark Twain. 1884. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1576045405094-07OXHV8YDTXAQOUZHYJX/Kemble002.jpg Illustration History - Edward W. Kemble [often, E.W.] Title page, “Kemble Edition” of Huck Finn, published in 1927. Designed to profit from then-septugenarian illustrator’s reputation. A fetish for Harper & Brothers marketing purposes—a la “The Director’s Cut.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1576046449024-YOKVTD1K71886NBOCGS1/kemble_edwa_1911_002_panel.jpg Illustration History - Edward W. Kemble [often, E.W.] Kemble, The Chocolate Drops panel, showing dialogue in caption form, in exaggerated dialect. The use of dialect was common. (I have an estate sale copy of an etiquette manual [circa 1930] written in the cleanest prose possible devoted to the arts of consideration and manners, which nonetheless relies on the trope of an old African American elevator operator who delivers wry observations on human behavior in thick dialect.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1576047265547-X0CEN9DWMSQY789QTVPD/Kemble004_det.jpg Illustration History - Edward W. Kemble [often, E.W.] E.W. Kemble, Huck and Jim, spot illustration. Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, published 1884 (this printing, 1927). Page 100. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1576045147207-VYVCPEKKADUC2NG5X5PU/Kemble001_June1890_det_single.jpg Illustration History - Edward W. Kemble [often, E.W.] Kemble’s Possum Hunter, 1890. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1576044940866-KI9EP9MSN7DKXHSHD395/Kemble001_June1890_sm.jpg Illustration History - Edward W. Kemble [often, E.W.] E.W. Kemble, Bric-A-Brac, in Century Magazine, June 1890. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1576045700237-4O79NTX2YW5WXCBDKMCV/Kemble003.jpg Illustration History - Edward W. Kemble [often, E.W.] E.W. Kemble, Huck and Jim, Chapter 10 header illustration. Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, published 1884 (this printing, 1927). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1576045742531-PYYORV6VR8MNSWU7G2PP/Kemble005.jpg Illustration History - Edward W. Kemble [often, E.W.] E.W. Kemble, The king and duke rehearsing Shakespeare, Chapter 21 header illustration. Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, published 1884 (this printing, 1927). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1576046223487-AMJ0FPJM5EU1FI1KJNPH/kemble_edwa_1911_002.jpg Illustration History - Edward W. Kemble [often, E.W.] E.W. Kemble, The Chocolate Drops, comic strip for the American Examiner, 1911. The fetishization of dark skin–chocolate!–is plain. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2019/8/14/howard-pyle monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1575871473141-17DIE849I4TQYSKBO7NG/tumblr_mwmo3n92021rom810o1_1280.jpg Illustration History - Howard Pyle Howard Pyle, "Dead Men Tell no Tales," illustration for a story of the same name by Morgan Robertson, Collier's, December 17, 1899. The oil painting is in the Kelly Collection of American Illustration. Implicit in this narrative is the impending doom of the k https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1575870935732-KUT095U1XKW764ND6LAM/Pyle_Ant_and_Grasshopper_HarpersW_12291883.jpg Illustration History - Howard Pyle Howard Pyle, The Ant and the Grasshopper, cover illustration, Harper’s Weekly, December 29, 1883. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1575869898049-7MR4XDEZNKYB1M3GRUBF/SS7731863_7731863_12518622.jpg Illustration History - Howard Pyle Howard Pyle, Marooned, illustration for "Buccaneers and Marooners of the Spanish Main," written by Howard Pyle. Harper's Magazine August-September 1887. This wood engraving is Pyle’s first treatment of this image. A more forlorn version was painted in 1909. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1575870437525-VLNUUXP6439ULVQVS9CD/Screen+Shot+2019-12-08+at+11.46.37+PM.png Illustration History - Howard Pyle Howard Pyle, Marooned, oil on canvas, 1909. In the collection of the Delaware Art Museum, which has an extensive collection of Pyle works. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1575867912913-E7LNEY3EL8PUYZM3RAL4/battle-nashville-painting.jpeg Illustration History - Howard Pyle Howard Pyle, The Battle of Nashville, 1906. Minnesota Statehouse, Saint Paul, Minnesota. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1575873892562-NPRQH56WJZG5UO23U86K/Pyle_Yellow_Birds.jpg Illustration History - Howard Pyle Howard Pyle, There is a Flock of Yellow Birds Around Her Head, 1892. Illustration for “Giles Corey, Yeoman, by Mary E. Wilkins, Harper’s New Monthly, December 1892. This is the grisaille painting, which accounts for the warm brown cast to the image. The halftone (Viewing the Battle of Bunker Hill below, for comparison) is less atmospheric. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1575871739665-LK5U2K81VC0LQ11PBXQV/pyle-bunkerhill-halftone.jpg Illustration History - Howard Pyle Howard Pyle, Viewing the Battle of Bunker Hill, halftone illustration from grisaille painting. Appeared in “Colonies and Nation,” by Woodrow Wilson, Harper’s New Monthly, October 1901. The relationship between this source painting, the halftone exposure, and the artifact of the printing plate is discussed in my book Stick Figures: Drawing as a Human Practice. See Chapter 3, “The Printed Image,” pages 68-71. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1575872326943-Y04ERONKJD9N8MNP49JG/Pyle_Guareded_by_English_Soldiers_1904.jpg Illustration History - Howard Pyle Howard Pyle, Guarded by Rough English Soldiers, story illustration for Saint Joan of Arc, by Mark Twain. Harper’s New Monthly, December 1904. I photographed this painting at the Brandywine Museum in September 2019. It’s a useful picture to use to reflect on how illustrations work. The two soldiers occupy space in the foreground, formally blocking an escape. But they are much larger than Joan, at left, and relative scale does not seem to have been managed systematically. In fact, they entire space falls apart on inspection. How does the wall work at right? Is it a doorway? Is it the darkened back corner of the room? Beats me. The picture is really an assemblage of characters, two foreclosing the exit of another. The spatial logic of the room is given short shrift, to keep the viewer focused on character and story. Pyle does not care about the specifics of the interior, and it shows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1575868063615-ZQSKE0X9KVG3JCLSJVLX/Pyle_Fight_Began_printed.jpg Illustration History - Howard Pyle Howard Pyle, Then the Real Fight Began, story illustration for “Pennsylvania’s Defiance of the United States,” by Hampton L. Carson. October 1908. Four-color halftone reproduction. Picking up on the discussion in the last caption, re: Joan of Arc, look at the relationship between the sailors and the deck. Do those feet sit on that surface? Does light fall on that deck? Not really—there are no shadows or gradations. Again, Pyle is much less focused on mass and weight than he is on story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1575868098980-XZH5RR3KMTMVOMK54PWS/Pyle_Fight_Began_Separations.jpg Illustration History - Howard Pyle Production plates for Then the Real Fight Began. 1908. The four-color halftone reproduction for the project was printed successively from these four copper plates, photo-etched from color separations in a then relatively new photomechanical color platemaking and printing process now known as CMYK. The color balance was still a little shaky. The color print (above) looks somewhat little acidic. These plates and many others like them are part of the Walt Reed Illustration Archive at the Dowd Modern Graphic History Library at Washington University. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2016/2/1/jessie-wilcox-smith monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454614343516-I9XNPW88S3N8CKC5GJOI/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jessie Willcox Smith Jessie Wilcox Smith, cover for Collier's Magazine. January 1904. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454614428890-12Z16GRTND1E0CVHM06K/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jessie Willcox Smith Jessie Wilcox Smith, cover for Collier's Magazine. March 16, 1907. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454614504561-VDCCTS5I768I4Z4MAYMT/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jessie Willcox Smith Jessie Wilcox Smith, cover for the Christmas edition of Collier's Magazine. 1912. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1576334302557-DS8AAY9NSNA6N60OT8O6/SF_711_JWSmith_Morning.jpg Illustration History - Jessie Willcox Smith Jessie Willcox Smith, Mother’s Morning, illustration for Scribner’s Magazine, 1902. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454362727003-QUA8IWRI6SBEF81Q95DN/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jessie Willcox Smith Jessie Wilcox Smith, cover for Good Housekeeping Magazine. May 1921. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454621295388-RA32X6GOQ20XAHU5OE28/illhouse_smithjw_whc_191521_2874.jpg Illustration History - Jessie Willcox Smith Jessie Wilcox Smith, ad for ordering an illustrated calendar. Women's Home Journal. 1915. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454362886405-GI0V7T0WII06NXQYT0H2/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jessie Willcox Smith Jessie Wilcox Smith, cover for Good Housekeeping Magazine. July 1927. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454614178907-29Z0CRJH6Y3PJK5Z781W/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jessie Willcox Smith Jessie Wilcox Smith, print advertisement for Fleischmann's Yeast in the Ladies Home Journal. January 1920. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454613909315-PA4Q5HC907HVBGZTQL3V/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jessie Willcox Smith Jessie Wilcox Smith, black and white print ad for Ivory Soap in The Redbook Magazine. 1920. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454362659269-20NHBXM5JMJNBL18H4I7/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jessie Willcox Smith Jessie Wilcox Smith, cover for Good Housekeeping Magazine. January 1919. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454614582366-GA6O3JFOV2WNU41DUO57/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jessie Willcox Smith Jessie Wilcox Smith, cover for Collier's Magazine. April 30, 1904. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454362930544-SZVLFXVIPQMR3DF2TA23/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jessie Willcox Smith Jessie Wilcox Smith, cover for Good Housekeeping Magazine. December 1933. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454362996430-8Q92HKA6112VFJOL5KCE/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jessie Willcox Smith Jessie Wilcox Smith, cover for Good Housekeeping Magazine. December 1927. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454363029858-C44GMY92Z1COO9XL5OMC/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jessie Willcox Smith Jessie Wilcox Smith, cover for Good Housekeeping Magazine. September 1922. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454614674514-85NDQVZ98DB1XLEBLL7L/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jessie Willcox Smith Jessie Wilcox Smith, print ad for Campbell's Vegetable Soup, found in Ladies Home Journal. May 1931. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454362960730-13KIMYNKM8I5JTSUH3AF/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jessie Willcox Smith Jessie Wilcox Smith, cover for Good Housekeeping Magazine. December 1932. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2019/8/12/newell-convers-wyeth-nc monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1565636311200-DP7EB6X8Z3M2X2RBTFLE/Wyeth004.jpg Illustration History - Newell Convers Wyeth [N.C.] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1565641633226-OLT6YZK11LQU0470VG5Y/Wyeth_IsraelHands.jpg Illustration History - Newell Convers Wyeth [N.C.] N.C. Wyeth, “One more step, Mr. Hands, and I’ll blow your brains out.” Illustration for Treasure Island, Scribner’s Classics edition. 1911. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1565636733427-M94850ENMQ5ASY83KQ19/Wyeth001.jpg Illustration History - Newell Convers Wyeth [N.C.] N.C. Wyeth, The Bronco Buster, 1902. This image was used as the cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, February 21, 1903. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1565637791062-BG75CGU7FN7OSS45CK9J/Wyeth_Life_092221sm.jpg Illustration History - Newell Convers Wyeth [N.C.] N.C. Wyeth, Stand and Deliver, cover illustration, Life Magazine, September 22, 1921. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1565637319702-JUG5VK5Q6T5712J5T409/Wyeth027.jpg Illustration History - Newell Convers Wyeth [N.C.] N.C. Wyeth, “Montana” The Last Stand, McClure’s Magazine cover illustration, September 1906 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1565640747399-K2NKUD6LK9BNS7ZBHMH6/Wyeth006.jpg Illustration History - Newell Convers Wyeth [N.C.] N.C. Wyeth, The Pony Express, 1912 Used in N.W. Ayer Advertisements for American Telephone and Telegraph Company. (See below) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1565641112277-Y40LXMSZ6S1SZ1E6QTAV/literal_resize_full.jpg Illustration History - Newell Convers Wyeth [N.C.] Advertisement, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1912. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1565643351551-OIFTAX8FPQ2HPJ9RCC2W/Wyeth003.jpg Illustration History - Newell Convers Wyeth [N.C.] N.C. Wyeth, Bronco Buster, illustration for Cream of Wheat advertisement (rare for its omission of the COW chef Rastus). 1906. Here is NCW dusting off a success [SEE Post cover, 1903] and re-executing, for mercenary purposes. COW was a major advertiser in American periodicals, often on the inside front cover of the Saturday Evening Post and the Ladies Home Journal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1565636413713-5JIXMN9HSI3O7NUJME8C/Wyeth008.jpg Illustration History - Newell Convers Wyeth [N.C.] N.C. Wyeth, endpaper illustration, The Last of the Mohicans, Scribner’s Classics edition, 1919. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1565636931929-U3NJFRWVOSCC8NKQK4M6/Wyeth010.jpg Illustration History - Newell Convers Wyeth [N.C.] N.C. Wyeth, “Nature in the Raw is seldom MILD,” advertising illustration for Lucky Strike, 1932. The ad copy references the Fort Dearborn Massacre, an event (otherwise called the Battle of Fort Dearborn) in which Potawatomie Indians defeated American troops, an engagement in the War of 1821. (August 15, 1812.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1565645031813-014OA1F05CE0NQOX5H07/Wyeth026sm.jpg Illustration History - Newell Convers Wyeth [N.C.] N.C. Wyeth, Library Adventure, cover illustration, Ladies Home Journal, March 1922. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1565645316476-LT2LONVQY01D6R73MCVQ/Wyeth007.jpg Illustration History - Newell Convers Wyeth [N.C.] N.C. Wyeth, Corn Harvest, 1935. Much of Wyeth’s painting (that is, image-making for non-applied contexts) tended toward the backward-looking. Here is a horse-drawn harvest in the 1930s. There is an American regionalist quality to this work (and others of the decade) that begin to feel somewhat more modern. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2019/9/13/coles-phillips monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1572295134312-FUH4T3TFJP90PSQQ5ZP7/phillips_overland01+copy_det_sm.jpg Illustration History - C. Coles Phillips Coles Phillips, Do your bit—but keep fit—The car of the hour. Advertising illustration (detail) plugging “the famous 35 horsepower Overland,” for Willys-Overland. 1917. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1572308049423-R4HS3OB8ZWPMVBE1O0B9/phillips_suitors_frontispiece.jpg Illustration History - C. Coles Phillips C. Coles Phillips, Hezekiah, the frontispiece from The Siege of the Seven Suitors, by Meredith Nichols, 1910. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1572298287993-RFC2AMIMHDW8SVC1KTZT/phillips_oneida_magichour.jpg Illustration History - C. Coles Phillips Coles Phillips, The Magic Hour, 1924. The painting (for an Oneida Community Plate advertisement) is in the Kelly Collection of American Illustration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1572308948013-LWZLN4N3XTLEA3UXKGYY/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - C. Coles Phillips Coles Phillips, advertising illustration for Holeproof Hosiery, circa 1922. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1572297482063-2EIEUC3LTNFPNNLUFL10/phillips_holeproofhosiery2.jpg Illustration History - C. Coles Phillips Coles Phillips, advertising illustration for Holeproof Hosiery, circa 1920. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1572295399261-EMHV0U0E1EKZMC96XMNC/phillips_overland01+copy_smallest.jpg Illustration History - C. Coles Phillips Coles Phillips, Do your bit—but keep fit—The car of the hour. Advertising illustration for Willys-Overland. 1917. Whole ad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1572296351081-R0JQ9MODF5COJGC2ER4G/phillips_LIFE_010610+copy_sm.jpg Illustration History - C. Coles Phillips C. Coles Phillips, One Girl Power, Life magazine cover illustration, January 6, 1910. This sample set of Phillips images seems to be leaning strongly into the overlap of fadeaway girls and cars, but the pairing is provocative for showing the increased emphasis on women as active characters with rising sway in the society and marketplace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1572295534716-TXL5T7KJC5JVFBHVX0OR/phillips_girl_driving.jpg Illustration History - C. Coles Phillips Coles Phillips. A fadeaway girl goes for a joyride (That’s my commentary, not a title, reminiscent of the Life cover shown above—where the car fades away.) Another ad, also for Overland. 1915. This is a detail, but effectively shows the whole illustration. The focus is entirely on the woman driver—the car is not shown! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1572295827313-3AOJ94ZE75VX0VP83LRZ/phillips_LIFE_082411+copy.jpg Illustration History - C. Coles Phillips C. Coles Phillips, Net Results, Life magazine cover illustration, August 24, 1911. An interpretation of the girl-as-manipulator / trapper-of-hapless-suitors trope, much in vogue during the aughts and teens. Anxiety about gender roles accompanied the rise of women as consumers and citizens with their own claims. (Versions of that unease would mark the ensuing century in a series of episodes, arguably without cease). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1572294816983-C6XKJZ8DGC30YKMDIS4I/phillips_cole_mghl00019_191502_006.jpg Illustration History - C. Coles Phillips Coles Phillips, Girl in the Library, cover illustration for Good Housekeeping, February 1915. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1572295709572-WOVU7MQYRQ9XTCNT2SQZ/phillips_LIFE_040721_sm2post.jpg Illustration History - C. Coles Phillips Coles Phillips, In a Position to Know, LIfe Magazine cover illustration, April 7, 1921. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1572297321653-360WSUALWA76TF7A4IVY/phillips_vitralite_lores.jpg Illustration History - C. Coles Phillips Coles Phillips, advertising illustration for Vitralite Enamel, 1924. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2019/8/13/edward-penfield monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566928257873-OB56UBRF46BFMUV04OS3/overhere1.jpg Illustration History - Edward Penfield Edward Penfield, Will You Help the Women of France? Save Wheat, poster design, U.S. Food Administration, 1918. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566927857982-ZIDHK4D5DNV328FAOUJX/image-asset.png Illustration History - Edward Penfield Edward Penfield, poster advertising Harpers Magazine, September 1894. Lithograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566928149671-TIDRZ7SHE55T1EAQUA2Z/image-asset.png Illustration History - Edward Penfield Edward Penfield, The Girl on the Land Serves the Nation’s Need, poster design, YWCA Land Service Committee, 1918. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566927026682-9S6PFCCBRMHPT3P140O9/penfield_edwa_1895_004.jpg Illustration History - Edward Penfield Edward Penfield, poster advertising Harpers Magazine, March 1895. Lithograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566927291324-FFSCUSQJD2IJK8J4LSMS/Penfield_Harpers_August_1894.png Illustration History - Edward Penfield Edward Penfield, poster advertising Harpers Magazine, August 1894. Lithograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566927918450-ALYE4T5DD16Y06821PJ3/penfield_edwa_1897_0003.jpg Illustration History - Edward Penfield Edward Penfield, poster advertising The Martian, 1897. Lithograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566928006611-6J361EWA1ATKITNRD12X/penfield_edwa_19070511_001.jpg Illustration History - Edward Penfield Edward Penfield, Dutch Girl cover illustration, Saturday Evening Post, May 11, 1907. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2019/8/7/ethel-reed monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566572112039-6ET77L1HWYA66JX95ZFY/reed_ethel_1895_005.jpg Illustration History - Ethel Reed Ethel Reed, Miss Träumerei, poster design for Lamson Wolffe & Company, Boston, 1895. Lithograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566572353352-R4GU2N91SEU6ZHB941QQ/reed_ethel_1895_002.jpg Illustration History - Ethel Reed Ethel Reed, Is Polite Society Polite?, poster design for Lamsom, Wolffe & Company, Boston. 1895. Lithograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566571511063-2AS0HCRG0008NTTWXJER/reed_ethel_1895_001.jpg Illustration History - Ethel Reed Ethel Reed, A Virginia Cousin & Bar Harbor Tales, poster design for Lamson Wolffe & Co., Boston, 1895. Lithograph. Note the presence of wash tonalities in the bodice of the dress, achieved through the use of tusche, a greasy ink solution used in lithography. Those grays are not photomechanical halftones—they bear the autographic signature of the medium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566571865481-AHBKZUPLTTGJL9CUJTJQ/reed_ethel_1895_004.jpg Illustration History - Ethel Reed Ethel Reed, Uncle Sam’s Church, poster design for Lamson, Wolffe & Company. Boston, 1895. Lithograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566572269423-MRARH1UU00UKFBD9DA90/reed_ethel_1896_006.jpg Illustration History - Ethel Reed Ethel Reed, In Childhood’s Country, poster design for Copeland and Day, Boston. 1896. Lithograph. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2019/8/13/henri-toulouse-lautrec monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566960344488-TVUZDC34LT8BV8ZIHBOR/383px-Lautrec_moulin_rouge%2C_la_goulue_%28poster%29_1891.jpg Illustration History - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Moulin Rouge: La Goulue. Poster advertisement. 1891. As noted in the biographical sketch, HTL’s first poster. LIthograph. The sweet spot between description and abstraction has yet to fully develop. The yellow “barbell” thing at left does not see to participate in the spatial array. An oddity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566935897460-GZ0S8SM2GJBMBH5MRUMP/Posters_Paris_Lautrec_147.jpeg Illustration History - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, La Troupe de Mademoiselle Eglantine, poster advertisement for dance performance, 1895. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566949374601-O3J72TORDN7TH526S5DU/Posters_Paris_Lautrec_135.jpeg Illustration History - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Reine de Joie par Victor Joze, chez tous les libraries (Queen of Joy, at all bookstores) poster advertisement for novel. 1892. LIthograph. An essay in edge and line. There are no black contour lines, with the exception of the “queen's” eyes and eyebrows: all else is black shape. The portly banker has pea-green hear and his head defined by a countour line of the same color; his companion’s face is delineated in red line and red lips. The value composition is a little out of whack, as the orange middle value should probably sit more evenly between the light yellow and green (both light values) and the flat black (dark as can be). At any rate, a wonderfully sophisticated semi-crudity. Colored blobs; not an illusion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566949503613-E0V48RWQWEQ9LT6XMI3O/Posters_Paris_Lautrec_136.jpeg Illustration History - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Ambassadeurs: Aristide Bruant dan son cabaret. Poster advertisement. 1892. LIthograph. The Victoria and Albert (London) entry for Ambassadeurs reads as following: ”This poster advertises an event with the singer Aristide Bruant at the Ambassadeurs nightclub in Paris, 1892. Bruant, a satirical singer and a friend of the French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), insisted that Lautrec design this poster. The director of the Ambassadeurs disliked its dramatic and uncompromising style, but since Bruant said he would not perform unless the poster remained, it was used both outside the theatre and inside to decorate the proscenium arch.” Link here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566961353581-IYAUS6IYDUS5LF8QUJ6J/Toulouse_Lautrec_divan_Japonais.png Illustration History - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Divan Japonais, poster advertisement, 1893. Lithograph. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2019/8/13/jules-chret monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566710456100-BM8OYUJMFD3OEAVEMWLM/Posters_Paris_Cheret_87.jpeg Illustration History - Jules Chéret Jules Chéret, Folies Bergere: Loïe Fuller, advertising poster, 1897 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566710279055-GC4RLVLXLNOBB5NL5XSN/Posters_Paris_Cheret_90.jpeg Illustration History - Jules Chéret Jules Chéret, Pippermint, advertising poster, 1899. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566929111771-0BVSTJBKM7VWNL2SWL6J/Posters_Paris_Cheret_detail.jpg Illustration History - Jules Chéret Chéret, Pippermint, 1899, detail. Click to enlarge. Note the control of value through modulation of tone on the stone using a grease crayon. This shows the autographic qualities of hand-lithography, through which the surface of the finely-ground stone provides a natural “dot pattern” that halftones would be used to mimic, photomechanically. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566710341891-36HA9L7S01CUH9MZCT84/Posters_Paris_Cheret_84.jpeg Illustration History - Jules Chéret Jules Chéret, Pantomimes Lumineuses, advertising poster for early motion picture screening, 1898. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566710387779-GA8BVBYREHL98EN44IJE/Posters_Paris_Cheret_70.jpeg Illustration History - Jules Chéret Jules Chéret, Folies Bergere: Les Hanion-Lees, advertising poster, 1878. This project, earlier in Chértet’s career, does not show the same atmospheric handling of color and light visible in the posters above, but manages nice modulation of value between the manic, highly-saturated central character and the figures behind him. Also nice use of negative form, notably the puff of locomotive smoke that crosses over his lower leg. Spatially quite sophisticated. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2019/8/13/alphonse-mucha monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566962239602-SZUVBCBK0EWC4S44AGEB/Posters_Paris_Mucha_119.jpeg Illustration History - Alphonse Mucha Alphonse Mucha, advertising poster for Cycles Perfecta, 1898. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566964660208-ACOHAZCF4R2HHL3SQWVA/Mucha_JOBCigarettePapers_1898.jpeg Illustration History - Alphonse Mucha Alphonse Mucha, advertising poster for Job Cigarette Papers, 1898. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566964740766-90PK87J4FNMKSWO4TBE6/Mucha_NestleFood_1897.jpeg Illustration History - Alphonse Mucha Alphonse Mucha, advertising poster for Nestlé’s Food for Infants, 1897. A reminder that many large brands of today (Quaker Oats, Coca-Cola, Kellogg’s, etc.) were already in business in the 19th century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566965181228-HZMOYQR4E1NFQ5BRAQZA/mucha_moet.jpg Illustration History - Alphonse Mucha Alphonse Mucha, advertising poster for Moët Chandon, 1899. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566934293769-T1YFE57GXEXANKAS0EF6/Posters_Paris_Mucha_114.jpeg Illustration History - Alphonse Mucha Alphonse Mucha, poster design for Gismonda, starring Sarah Bernhardt. Executed late 1894, posted January 1895. Theatre de la Renassiance, Paris. Lithograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566964476848-10E7QYL900WF5TK896JK/Mucha_Medea_1898.jpeg Illustration History - Alphonse Mucha Alphonse Mucha, poster design for Medée, starring Sarah Bernhardt. Theatre de la Renassiance, Paris. 1898. Lithograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566964935420-8GDP148TNAVKDNV4PRA3/Posters_Paris_Mucha_115.1.jpeg Illustration History - Alphonse Mucha Alphonse Mucha, poster design for Lorenzaccio, starring Sarah Bernhardt. Theatre de la Renassiance, Paris. 1896. Lithograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1566962076307-GGVJG8DW5I613PBRFOYN/Mucha_Biscuits_1896.jpeg Illustration History - Alphonse Mucha Alphonse Mucha, advertising poster for Biscuit Lefevre-Utile, 1896. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2016/5/17/women-illustrators-and-creative-ancestry monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463631332308-N6EKLCSZAUG4YLPJVPJ0/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Women Illustrators and Creative Ancestry Kay Draper, The Toy Shop, from The Alpha Individual Arithmetics, Book One, Part II. Ginn and Company, 1929. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463963787847-BM63LPZPSU761QQY4FVL/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Women Illustrators and Creative Ancestry Neysa McMein, Cover Illustration for McCall's. June 1932. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463661535215-YT6TBAD1KG9EAP0ODP7Q/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Women Illustrators and Creative Ancestry Ethel Franklin Betts, color illustration of "The Story of Hansel and Gretel" from Fairy Tales from Grimm. Edited with an intro written by Hamilton W. Mabie. Published in 1909 by Edw. Stern & Co. Inc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463631468741-S4EOASOIH72QEOCXBA9N/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Women Illustrators and Creative Ancestry Jane Oliver, cover illustration for This Week Magazine. December 5, 1954. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463661847545-GDH9I2T9UZDBORRAF5I6/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Women Illustrators and Creative Ancestry Clara Elsene Peck, detail of illustration for "Twelve Hours' Treasure". Written by Phyllis Wyatt Brown. The Delineator, December 1914. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463631591470-A2KDWYC5K9NVTPAI025P/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Women Illustrators and Creative Ancestry Grace Drayton, Dolly Dingle's Twin Cousins. Pictorial Review, February 1930. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2016/5/16/elizabeth-buchsbaum monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463682956938-QJRGGQCGMZDPTV6O5RO5/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Elizabeth Newhall (Buchsbaum) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463581799289-DMJU4BH7QOND50144Z2Z/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Elizabeth Newhall (Buchsbaum) Elizabeth Buchsbaum, Animals Without Backbones (2nd edition). Written by Ralph Buchsbaum. 1st Edition published in 1938, 2nd edition in 1948 by University of Chicago Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463680265572-6IXD8FIPCZOK210SOG8V/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Elizabeth Newhall (Buchsbaum) Elizabeth Buchsbaum, Animals Without Backbones. Interior structure of a hydra. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463680783085-C7IMZ1YUTBTO854BPVF0/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Elizabeth Newhall (Buchsbaum) Elizabeth Buchsbaum, Animals Without Backbones. Detail, Hydra. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463681306459-L2ASEZJHV0IAAUVZ18YX/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Elizabeth Newhall (Buchsbaum) The clean-looking scans on this page are from a copy of AWB in the offsite stacks at Washington University. This slightly crappy-looking scan is from the water-damaged estate sale copy I bought years ago. I posted this image in 2008. Brad Buchsbaum's mention of MC Escher's planaria and the Ralph Buchsbaum connection to same was provoked by this image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463680396268-3C4NIEYW6KKF6V8LMDXT/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Elizabeth Newhall (Buchsbaum) Elizabeth Buchsbaum, Animals Without Backbones. Invertebrate Chordates, chapter header illustration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463582963207-6IEV4LG2RHJ4MZKKGTEY/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Elizabeth Newhall (Buchsbaum) Elizabeth Buchsbaum, Animals Without Backbones (. Illustration of the parasitic life cycle of a freshwater clam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463582777794-6HYBBL025YHCWBQY3MZ6/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Elizabeth Newhall (Buchsbaum) Elizabeth Buchsbaum, Animals Without Backbones (2nd edition). Cutaway diagram inside a worm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463582428949-D4HFTZBR50GZ3GGCWDVU/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Elizabeth Newhall (Buchsbaum) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463582090601-952L63AUTZ1O9R1VMZLO/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Elizabeth Newhall (Buchsbaum) Elizabeth Buchsbaum, Animals Without Backbones (2nd edition). Starfish innards. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/13/jessie-gillespie monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1453407762647-JKHQCZDQUT57GXVXIP12/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jessie Gillespie (Willing) Gillespie, ad for Holmes & Edwards silverware. Ladies Home Journal. June 1920. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463449674536-2X1U7DDGSGCLHH8OTMDQ/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jessie Gillespie (Willing) Jessie Gillespie, Today only_49 Cents. Ink and china white drawing for Life magazine, circa 1912. This image pays off Roger Reed's insight that Gillespie was keenly attuned to women's fashion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463449919880-7KLK1MQG5LFD5KXQ8RKW/image-asset.png Illustration History - Jessie Gillespie (Willing) Gillespie, detail. The Darwinian spectacle of bargain-hunting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463449995827-BIJLL8B55TWVPSL6N2YB/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jessie Gillespie (Willing) Gillespie, detail. A girl, neglected. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463450083202-71NO29LPOXK6VMJWFG48/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jessie Gillespie (Willing) Gillespie, detail. Little brother is trampled by the herd. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449259668178-OIM4QP1S62JMPC8G3QRZ/gillespie_01.jpg Illustration History - Jessie Gillespie (Willing) Jessie Gillespie, accompanying illustrations for an article. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449182653406-MVKG9LAKVHAE4JIP0JIM/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jessie Gillespie (Willing) Jessie Gillespie, accompanying illustrations for an article in The Sunday Magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1453838790033-0C613RSJYKVAY6ML8SGF/gillespie_soldiersilhouettes_1918_6.jpg Illustration History - Jessie Gillespie (Willing) Jessie Gillespie, illustration. Soldier Silhouettes On Our Front by William L Stidge. Published Charles Scribners' Sons in 1918. Reprint in 2015 by Facsimile Publisher, Delhi, India. The ghostly atmospherics of these images are striking and creepy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1455046844842-EHDQ8PT3X4P72M1KV5RW/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jessie Gillespie (Willing) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1453838895897-7PDGHQODUM3A1IVMGLNB/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jessie Gillespie (Willing) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1455046882461-KZZD583OSOOF79H6AL3T/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jessie Gillespie (Willing) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1453838822765-T0ARFXV6R5CGV7LTRAIW/gillespie_soldiersilhouettes_1918_2.jpg Illustration History - Jessie Gillespie (Willing) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1455046925774-EW8P9373UGE430HST7BL/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jessie Gillespie (Willing) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449182686949-NSNSW2P4VXE42011U4PG/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jessie Gillespie (Willing) Jessie Gillespie, cover illustration for The What-Shall-I-Do Girl. Written by Isabel Woodman Waitt. Published by L.C. Page and Company in 1913. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449182807600-XB4ZVX4033Q2C7169RN6/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jessie Gillespie (Willing) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449182907010-E56R6OWDN8KAJ9FF2BWD/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jessie Gillespie (Willing) Jessie Gillespie, chapter header illustrations for The What-Shall-I-Do Girl. Written by Isabel Woodman Waitt. Published by L.C. Page and Company in 1913. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449182757123-Z1BV8N780ZUFZC5LH7GX/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jessie Gillespie (Willing) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449182723344-TA4CV7TBVCCXU15JU87F/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jessie Gillespie (Willing) https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/13/ethel-franklin-betts monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1453408101374-H2T1I9ZPUOCUF7VO2B5J/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Ethel Franklin Betts Ethel Franklin Betts, color illustration of "Snow-White and Rose-Red" from Fairy Tales from Grimm. Edited with an intro written by Hamilton W. Mabie. Published in 1909 by Edw. Stern & Co. Inc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463961522909-DFUK9WEJXJOBSSYFLKE4/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Ethel Franklin Betts Ethel Franklin Betts, cover design for Fairy Tales from Grimm. Edited with an introduction written by Hamilton W. Mabie. Published in 1909 by Edw. Stern & Co. Inc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1453408385258-GMTHFQS98HVD3GYC2TBS/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Ethel Franklin Betts Ethel Franklin Betts, color illustration of "The Story of Hansel and Gretel" from Fairy Tales from Grimm. 1909. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463961352170-RPLMKYFS7BIYZ2TLY6LU/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Ethel Franklin Betts Ethel Franklin Betts, pen drawing illustration of "The Story of Little Red Cap" (or Little Red Riding Hood) from Fairy Tales from Grimm. 1909. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1453408275755-QHC692OXWGAX78G51THQ/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Ethel Franklin Betts Ethel Franklin Betts, pen drawing for "The Story of Hans in Luck" from Fairy Tales from Grimm. 1909. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463961130400-L59Q125I92B4NBIKO3WI/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Ethel Franklin Betts Ethel Franklin Betts, frontsipiece illustration of Rumplestiltskin with illustrated and hand-lettered title page of Fairy Tales from Grimm. 1909. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447970827774-93PAE2Q1MVUUJ5KBJPHV/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Ethel Franklin Betts Ethel Franklin Betts, Cover Illustration for Collier's Magazine. Volume XXXI, Number 8. May 23, 1903. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447970854820-W5MCCCHZ3IBADX95SL60/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Ethel Franklin Betts Ethel Franklin Betts, "Manners Change, Not Men". Harper's Monthly Magazine. Interior Illustration for a story by Edward Sanford Martin. September 1900. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/13/nell-brinkley monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447970328802-6D8J4JXW89045XK6L1YX/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Nell Brinkley Nell Brinkley, "The Dark Side and the Fair Side". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449494365712-1OWLE1QHLYPWRZSZF4ZM/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Nell Brinkley Nell Brinkley, print ad for the Nell Brinkley Bob Curler. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447968862902-TJTARSR9PEIDPFCBF20P/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Nell Brinkley Nell Brinkley, "The Honey-Moon: A Wordless Story". 1914. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1453408624789-NBDB6RU93R80FM4L8A0W/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Nell Brinkley Nell Brinkley, cover for the Sunday Dayton Journal. July 26, 1936. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447970424183-WS0NT8BBZ32DVWVRZ3DF/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Nell Brinkley Nell Brinkley, "The Adventures of Cupid". American Sunday Monthly Magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447970457787-XZ25XHZYSFEYVUC0SGCG/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Nell Brinkley Nell Brinkley, "The Adventures of Cupid". American Sunday Monthly Magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449494440218-KUXWO6S9PNZQ2TK1WSRH/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Nell Brinkley Nell Brinkley, "Golden Eyes and Her Hero Bill Over There". Cover of the American Weekly supplement within the Los Angeles Examiner. January 19, 1919. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449494500797-MXWISC7OPSI0P73VXFPI/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Nell Brinkley Nell Brinkley, "Betty and Billy and their Love Through the Ages". Cover of the American Weekly supplement within the Sunday Milwaukee Telegram. April 2, 1922. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447968933123-BPDD6BN6W2W3MSELOE9J/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Nell Brinkley Nell Brinkley. 1924. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/13/fanny-young-cory monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449179275508-LACNEHPJXA99JZV6E528/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fanny Young Cory FY Cory, interior illustration. Harper's Bazaar, 1903. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449180311962-512LXQMU4BHV994HVBDO/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fanny Young Cory FY Cory, Front Cover for The Fanny Cory Mother Goose. Bobs-Merrill Company Publishers. 1913. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449179705607-4JMFQQ5UZANC8TSWQI2E/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fanny Young Cory FY Cory, endpapers for The Fanny Cory Mother Goose. Bobs-Merrill Company Publishers. 1913. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449180205880-529LG6BWCQQ56RR08G89/cory_mothergoose_1913_threewisemen.jpg Illustration History - Fanny Young Cory FY Cory, The Fanny Cory Mother Goose. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1453413526255-K697ZMTOL387Y3I00T4J/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fanny Young Cory FY Cory, The Fanny Cory Mother Goose. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1453413566027-7W69S4M59R3I7WP9PMXI/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fanny Young Cory FY Cory, The Fanny Cory Mother Goose. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449180367555-8PUDYH7BBY8MDTKDRYBU/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fanny Young Cory FY Cory, The Fanny Cory Mother Goose. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1453409817588-WN7M0CFRS80NDVTIOTVV/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fanny Young Cory Fanny Cory, "Little Miss Muffet" No. 11. Magazine published quarterly by Best Books, Inc. Copyright 1937, 1938, 1948 by King Features Syndicate, Inc. December 1948. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1453410291569-J3DMXKNQA568NQLAVR7Z/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fanny Young Cory Fanny Cory's "Little Miss Muffet" was a daily strip. When King Features sought to repurpose and reprint her strip in a comic book format (common practices) they did so by slapping garish color on what had been a somewhat austere black-and-white project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1453410270129-HJ0FAJX99ZA1ZJEK0KDF/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fanny Young Cory Cory, "Little Miss Muffet," distorted by chirpy, "active" color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1453410975394-RCG0S0G7Z1SBERBCZ2V0/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fanny Young Cory Cory, "Little Miss Muffet." The night scene depicted above gives a slightly better sense of the original strip. The emphasis on value captures the simplified character of Cory's key drawing, which can be overwhelmed by King Features' high-keyed color palette. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449178602587-MISSLXNA1OGRU37KZSJ4/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fanny Young Cory FY Cory, another piece from "Fairy Series". Watercolor painting. 1930. It was later accompanied by text in the Fairy Alphabet Book: "Q is for Queen / Asleep in her bower/ Which is made by the shade/ Of a clematis flower." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449178940298-37WBUVUHYAF67JU5SNHR/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fanny Young Cory FY Cory, a piece from "Fairy Series". Watercolor painting. 1930. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449178123065-ELBMGCPFDX3WAOUBO3TU/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fanny Young Cory FY Cory, a piece from "Fairy Series". Watercolor painting. 1930. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/13/gladys-rockmore-davis monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447971282790-BPVVLP21OMG4H2U7HPIW/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Gladys Rockmore Davis Gladys Rockmore Davis, Cover Illustration. Ladies' Home Journal. November 1947. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1453506024615-OED2ZMID8K0UJ49JZRG1/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Gladys Rockmore Davis Gladys Rockmore Davis, Johnson & Johnson Ad, Ladies Home Journal, circa 1950. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/13/edna-eicke monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447971390846-9P2EJRLDA09WWAKR9PCB/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Edna Eicke Edna Eicke, Cover Illustration for The New Yorker. December 18, 1948. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/13/anne-harriet-fish monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447971883133-SD95GNMGWRJW66SU11QN/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Anne Harriet Fish Anne Fish. Vanity Fair. November 1915. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447972159710-YLQBAOH8MIW27GH334C4/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Anne Harriet Fish Anne Fish, "Great Moments at the Movies". Vanity Fair. December 1916. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447971580218-1ZMTOMQY2AI3X1HCLF0G/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Anne Harriet Fish Anne Fish, "The Dazzle Fish" (top) and "The Riviera" (bottom). Print ad illustrations for Abdulla and Co., Ltd. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447971633366-ZRAE9CGVW7NNDAGKFYJN/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Anne Harriet Fish Anne Fish, "The Once Rich". Harper's Bazaar. January 1929. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447971775392-53DQ9DKTVYRHZ9M58IRR/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Anne Harriet Fish Anne Fish, "The Riviera Face". Harper's Bazaar. January 1929. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447972115676-H54MD1K0WULS4BOS4T5O/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Anne Harriet Fish Anne Fish. Vanity Fair. February 1921. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447972248335-8JVXGGSINL01OHOW5CSK/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Anne Harriet Fish Anne Fish. Vanity Fair. December 1916. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/13/ruth-sigrid-grafstrom monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447972491088-BSYF90AWNDHBMKOZJ75Y/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Ruth Sigrid Grafstrom Ruth Grafstrom, "Coat and Dress from Rose AMado and from I. Magnin". Vogue. September 1, 1935. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447972422261-RTNKHE00NTJPUVR53RM4/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Ruth Sigrid Grafstrom Ruth Grafstrom, "A wrap-around over your suit". Vogue. June 1, 1932. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447972454936-0ETTRNAMVNE4VIUB2V8K/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Ruth Sigrid Grafstrom Ruth Grafstrom, "Striped Woollens are Autumn News". Vogue. August 15, 1933. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/13/helen-e-hokinson monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447972842931-5JP60VWYQZAGFQYYVXDJ/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Helen E. Hokinson Helen E. Hokinson, Cover Illustration for The New Yorker. September 19, 1942. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447972651313-HDE67ITT7G6XQ6MENVEB/illhouse_hokins_nyorke_19400516_2347.jpg Illustration History - Helen E. Hokinson Helen E. Hokinson, Cover Illustration for The New Yorker. March 16, 1940. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447972736449-PLQNJIKMGBZN0CC16N89/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Helen E. Hokinson Helen E. Hokinson, Cover Illustration for The New Yorker. May16, 1942. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447972875613-D6SJHJUJ2NWHQ9OGASTD/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Helen E. Hokinson Helen E. Hokinson, Cover Illustration for The New Yorker. September 25, 1943. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/13/the-hollings-lucille-webster-holling-holling-c-holling monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448050396471-TAKT9BJ4HAHFDZPVI77P/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - The Hollings Lucille Holling + H.C. Holling, Frontispiece from Little Folks of Other Lands. Written by Watty Piper. Published in 1929 by Platt & Munk, republished 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448050617545-HCNB11WN9MJ0FMK862GC/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - The Hollings Lucille Holling + H.C. Holling, Children of Other Lands. Written by Watty Piper. Published in 1929 by Platt & Munk, republished 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448050563561-FWRL1P1K473TUEEAZWUB/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - The Hollings Lucille Holling + H.C. Holling, Little Folks of Other Lands. Written by Watty Piper. Published in 1929 by Platt & Munk, republished 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448050920502-58DT8H5KGHWZ59DQ75AW/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - The Hollings Lucille W. Holling, Kimo: The Whistling Boy. Written by Alice Cooper Bailey. Published in 1928 by The Wise-Parslow Co. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448126618700-YJ6K6FI5QX7C7HT6NRXF/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - The Hollings Lucille Webster Hollings, A Thrilling Tale of Burma, cover illustration for Oriental Stories: Fascinating Tales of the East. Autumn 1931. I am breaking my own rule, and including an image not in the Reed Archive or my own library. This image appears in a blog post by Terence Hanley devoted to Lucille Holling at Tellers of Weird Tales. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448050989395-8ZERJ0B7103EO8QWXA7K/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - The Hollings Lucille W. Holling, Kimo: The Whistling Boy. Written by Alice Cooper Bailey. Published in 1928 by The Wise-Parslow Co. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448051030906-2UZUDJ684AO4Q3AAWU3X/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - The Hollings Lucille W. Holling, Detail from Kimo: The Whistling Boy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447973769914-BB15U5LLAMC71XE34HZ9/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - The Hollings Lucille W. Holling, Detail from Kimo: The Whistling Boy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448050353143-XS0QZZ144MUXU8OXT96J/hollimgl_Kimo_Bailey_FrontistPiece.jpg Illustration History - The Hollings Lucille W. Holling, Frontispiece of Kimo: The Whistling Boy. Written by Alice Cooper Bailey. Published in 1928 by The Wise-Parslow Co. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/13/elizabeth-shippen-green monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1576177981535-ZLD4GPW0AQXCY5BNLZQ7/shippeng_1904_006.jpg Illustration History - Elizabeth Shippen Green Elizabeth Shippen Green, “The Child,” cover illustration for calendar project with Jessie Willcox Smith, published 1903. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1576178148845-4S7TNJM3QV8QNEGJCHSS/shippeng_1904_007.jpg Illustration History - Elizabeth Shippen Green Elizabeth Shippen Green, Playing Parcheesi, illustration for March/April 1904 calendar page. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454264372378-DF5Y47ENY5YEGJA09KEM/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Elizabeth Shippen Green Elizabeth Shippen Green, Tales from Shakespeare. By Charles and Mary Lamb. Published by David McKay Company, 1922. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463455976686-VD4SWQVMR5ZKJJ7848KV/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Elizabeth Shippen Green Elizabeth Shippen Green, Playthings, illustration for "The Mind of a Child," Harper's Monthly, December 1906. (As printed.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1576187862917-SD6HTGMKPN8A4VBFMMR2/shippeng_eliz_190612_005.jpg Illustration History - Elizabeth Shippen Green Elizabeth Shippen Green, Paper Doll Books Number 2, illustration for "The Mind of a Child," Harper's Monthly, December 1906. Same series as above. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1576187711567-NT826PLAD49NWB0F5MJB/shippeng_eliz_190503_004.jpg Illustration History - Elizabeth Shippen Green Elizabeth Shippen Green, The Five Little Pigs, from a feature titled “The Mistress of the House,” Harper’s Monthly, August 1905 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454264747240-NMF1AQDB0YEYGQ2HZCTN/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Elizabeth Shippen Green Elizabeth Shippen Green, Tales from Shakespeare. 1922. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454264414500-0A1EQZ46GBD018KI0DGN/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Elizabeth Shippen Green Elizabeth Shippen Green, Tales from Shakespeare. 1922. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454264355145-38GDWE5B29X1FE3OPS7U/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Elizabeth Shippen Green Elizabeth Shippen Green, black and white chapter header illustration from Tales from Shakespeare. 1922. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454264789166-RT28YL4E1G4XFHX10K81/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Elizabeth Shippen Green Elizabeth Shippen Green, black and white chapter header illustration from Tales from Shakespeare. 1922. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454264678487-7TVS5VQ68ITKNZ8UHTK7/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Elizabeth Shippen Green Elizabeth Shippen Green, black and white chapter header illustration from Tales from Shakespeare. 1922. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454264440868-69WVQHG7SDXVSN2PEV53/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Elizabeth Shippen Green Elizabeth Shippen Green, black and white chapter header illustration from Tales from Shakespeare. 1922. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454267520941-PIURWJOOEP3T6IKI0R6U/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Elizabeth Shippen Green Elizabeth Shippen Green, illustration from The Mansion. Written by Henry van Dyke. Published by Harper & Brothers, 1911. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454267476931-UG2CHTDFUG92NG0796I8/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Elizabeth Shippen Green Elizabeth Shippen Green, illustration from The Mansion. 1911. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454267537921-KPVG2888CGMZ855UURAN/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Elizabeth Shippen Green Elizabeth Shippen Green, illustration from The Mansion. 1911. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454267509903-45DQYL3W0CEPCMVXWCRO/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Elizabeth Shippen Green Elizabeth Shippen Green, illustration from The Mansion. 1911. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454267551298-6ZAPT619DE38FXLARKA7/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Elizabeth Shippen Green Elizabeth Shippen Green, illustration from The Mansion. 1911. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/13/christina-malman monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449261736669-28WCBJP8DSBUK0JFDWTJ/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Christina Malman Christina Malman, Cover Illustration for The New Yorker. December 1940. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449261933421-SNKN5EGXSZEI5UFO9W7V/illhouse_malman_nyorke_19400224_2482.jpg Illustration History - Christina Malman Christina Malman, Cover Illustration for The New Yorker. February 1940. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449261654265-USHP86W6URDA9ESSLDFV/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Christina Malman Christina Malman, Cover Illustration for The New Yorker. May 1942. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449261860350-27MASMBD0UOOVYILEHRN/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Christina Malman Christina Malman, Cover Illustration for The New Yorker. July 1940. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/13/neysa-moran-mcmein monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448052015484-49LYK0DTA2AFKKNI68UZ/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Neysa Moran McMein Neysa McMein, Cover Illustration for McCall's. June 1932. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448052126612-WF6HMMWTF5DFTMC7XOMD/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Neysa Moran McMein Neysa McMein, Cover Illustration for The Saturday Evening Post. March 17, 1917. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448052217735-BNPVG1CHEDS35YKT0ONI/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Neysa Moran McMein Neysa McMein, Cover illustration for McCalls. September 1923. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448052298516-KLHH5AVKS2OGNREJA2K9/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Neysa Moran McMein Neysa McMein, Print ad for Cadillac. The Ladies Home Journal. July 1923. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448052615499-62O08QNOMTVUHF42DO9I/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Neysa Moran McMein Neysa McMein. Unknown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448052868353-BZPQ7T0X0WEEZ16KFFWZ/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Neysa Moran McMein Neysa McMein. Unknown original artwork. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448052080902-F91ETLJ5VPNCRFZX8BU0/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Neysa Moran McMein Neysa McMein, Cover Illustration for McCall's. January 1934. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448052458418-XJPDZZ7JGH7R08QVLJ34/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Neysa Moran McMein Neysa McMein, Cover Illustration for McClure's. July 1917. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448052568060-W0ZW9YIFMZRR0ST02FQS/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Neysa Moran McMein Neysa McMein, Print ad for American Chicle Company. The Saturday Evening Post. April 1920. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/13/dorothy-monet monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448053302554-Z6CW3R86CP39JWYWR1IZ/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Dorothy Monet Dorothy Monet, "Beauty is Certainly Deep" in the Women's Home Companion. May 1955. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448053332325-WSAKMMNIVJHDNJ7DBDCS/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Dorothy Monet Dorothy Monet, Print ad for Coca Cola. This Week Magazine. September 1, 1957. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448053387563-MRG5I02OOA6W81B50PP4/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Dorothy Monet Dorothy Monet, Print ad for Old Gold Cigarettes. Collier's Magazine. June 29, 1946. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448053433528-WITNSCAATDQUA5ULS88Y/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Dorothy Monet Dorothy Monet, "Bachelor Apartment" by Albert N. Williams. Collier's Magazine. August 17, 1946. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448053485257-DTTQVECJU3RCGFNW9H5Z/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Dorothy Monet Dorothy Monet, Interior illustration for Women's Home Companion. September 1952. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448053665315-5H2R309W0F9NP8Z5BJSS/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Dorothy Monet Dorothy Monet, "Beautiful Thief" by Margaret Culkin Banning. Women's Home Companion. February 1953. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/13/fanny-munsell monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448053917574-FH46WZF8EVOMHOYEQVPL/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fanny Munsell Fanny Munsell, "Watching Them, Janet Felt a Thousand Years Old," story illustration for "Young Love," by Elizabeth Jordan. Harper's Monthly Magazine. January 1915. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448053869529-Z5F9I25KPXJW9X15GH3Q/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fanny Munsell Fanny Munsell, "He Lingered to Propose to Her, While the Conductor Stood Waiting". Harper's Monthly Magazine. Story illustration for "Young Love," by Elizabeth Jordan. Harper's Monthly Magazine. January 1915. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/13/evaline-ness monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454013193135-3UG7J5JWX761WTKCTRRQ/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Evaline Ness Evaline Ness, illustration from Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Italy. Written by Virginia Haviland. Published by Little, Brown and Company, 1965. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463435404650-MIBBXH06ES8F5TDN21QU/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Evaline Ness Photo credit unavailable. An elegant-looking Evaline Ness in her studio, published in American Artist, January 1956. She designed the tapestry behind her. Adrienne P., A blogger at the Free Library of Philadelphia, where I first encountered this image, has (sensibly) argued that "Cate Blanchett should play her in the movie." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1453844189539-B83CC0834NDR05P27H0E/ness_ThistleandThyme_Leodhas_1962_6.jpg Illustration History - Evaline Ness Evaline Ness, illustration from Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland. Written by Nic Leodhas. Published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1962. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1453844387368-5GVO33FUWU2NEELFUNHH/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Evaline Ness Evaline Ness, illustration from Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454013320804-8FXKAORQEJ3C1E87CR93/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Evaline Ness Evaline Ness, illustration from Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454013040837-11BUJQW7IFQ2F1K996YH/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Evaline Ness Evaline Ness, spread from Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Italy. Written by Virginia Haviland. Published by Little, Brown and Company, 1965. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454013206959-UXCXCIK33XUN6MM71T6Y/ness_toldinitaly_haviland_1965_3.jpg Illustration History - Evaline Ness Evaline Ness, illustration from Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Italy. 1965 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454013224990-P5E3HSX23LBRALGRLTXW/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Evaline Ness Evaline Ness, illustration from Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Italy. 1965 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454013276794-CXH7PJA3DYUPKNOYHSJZ/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Evaline Ness Evaline Ness, spread from Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Italy. 1965 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454017886998-GQH3L6JUT322DWQWIFM8/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Evaline Ness Evaline Ness, cover illustration for Sam, Bangs & Moonshine. After three consecutive years of runner-up-dom, earning Caldecott Honor status (1963-1965), Ness won the Caldecott Prize with this book in 1966. Published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454017979930-B0R2ABSY2GFQGF255ODI/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Evaline Ness Evaline Ness, cover illustration for Sam, Bangs & Moonshine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454017964551-EHUYKUKNRAEOO09TG0S8/ness_sambangs_1966_3.jpg Illustration History - Evaline Ness Evaline Ness, cover illustration for Sam, Bangs & Moonshine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448054111569-IS7BDKOLI6SL25OOY004/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Evaline Ness Evaline Ness, "One Lucky Girl Was Claiming Bill's Attention". Unknown Publication. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448054140709-1PU5HOLPVRS75CHUHAVY/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Evaline Ness Evaline Ness, "She Sat There Without Any Idea What to Say". Unknown Publication. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/13/grace-gebbie-drayton-wiederseim monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448054974943-Y1S6FIDD8ENV53HK7UFC/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Grace Gebbie Drayton (Wiederseim) Grace Drayton, Print ad for Campbell's Tomato Soup. Ladies Home Journal. January 1919. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448055027519-NVM38J27NKFIZIZGSHZK/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Grace Gebbie Drayton (Wiederseim) Grace Drayton, "Dolly's Letter" by Margaret G. Hay. Poem illustration. Sunday Magazine. December 11, 1910. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448054934732-0OYB2WF300UMYTCOAIKV/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Grace Gebbie Drayton (Wiederseim) Grace Drayton, Cover illustration. Leslie's Illustrated Weekly Newspaper. The Schweinler Press. May 15, 1913. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448055133728-JOGXX6AZIU1NHQPREJ06/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Grace Gebbie Drayton (Wiederseim) Grace Drayton, print ad for Campbell's Tomato Soup. Unknown publication. 1920. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1455918012504-R1MY8VPLJM0IJYJ0DJ7K/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Grace Gebbie Drayton (Wiederseim) Grace Drayton, Dolly Dingle's Twin Cousins. Pictorial Review, February 1930. These children are Campbell's-Kid-esque, but Drayton somehow managed to keep renaming them under her own copyright. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448054846613-BAMR4ZRC3F1K1WLSFMEH/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Grace Gebbie Drayton (Wiederseim) Grace Drayton, Campbells advertisement. Delineator Magazine. December 1917. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448055071644-T1VZDDXF83YNF2ECAM27/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Grace Gebbie Drayton (Wiederseim) Grace Drayton, print ad for Campbell's Vegetable Soup. Unknown publication. June 1918. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/13/helene-nyce monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449491283817-7XJENJD1F9AF5PP49A7F/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Helene Nyce Helene Nyce, "Flossie Fisher's Funnies: This Little Pig Went to the Market" in the Ladies Home Journal. July 1915. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449491459205-9A6DO8FMU3R3H85FSOXF/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Helene Nyce Helene Nyce, "Flossie Fisher's Funnies: Flossie Goes Blackberrying" in the Ladies Home Journal. August 1912. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449491856086-TCEHEP6LPNXESDQPUTSV/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Helene Nyce Helene Nyce, Detail from "Flossie Fisher's Funnies: This Little Pig Went to the Market" in the Ladies Home Journal. August 1912. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449492456476-X8PS1VGLINI9OT6GIJPM/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Helene Nyce Helene Nyce, Detail from "Making Themselves Welcome at Cinderella's Palace" in the Ladies Home Journal. June 1915. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449491790355-AWIO87Y9NBYDUSWEPE2Q/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Helene Nyce Helene Nyce, "The Blue-Button Twins" in the Ladies Home Journal. March 1913. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449492584566-7CBUFDUNAOFZE5EFUQNX/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Helene Nyce Helene Nyce, The Adventures of the Greyfur Family, written by Vera Nyce. Version published in 1917 by the J.P. Lippincott Company. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449492684501-PDGHQRKPJTT08GALA5ZH/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Helene Nyce Helene Nyce, The Adventures of the Greyfur Family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449492755382-KSPJV6YCKKY1233M6GTQ/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Helene Nyce Helene Nyce, The Adventures of the Greyfur Family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449491353504-73U6AYPP9KY0OHWAIQIY/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Helene Nyce Helene Nyce, "Flossie Fisher's Funnies: Tommy's Accident Brings a Merry Christmas" in the Ladies Home Journal. December 1913. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449491220417-7BP5GM919DE3N53SW1V9/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Helene Nyce Helene Nyce, "Flossie Fisher's Funnies: Making Themselves Welcome at Cinderella's Palace" in the Ladies Home Journal. June 1915. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/19/jane-oliver monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448056293781-DUCEM1ZCRZDWT6E3A8A2/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jane Oliver Jane Oliver, cover illustration for This Week Magazine. December 5, 1954. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448056324801-YOKH8HPQD7L1APKH9K4Z/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jane Oliver Jane Oliver, Interior illustration for Collier's Weekly Magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448056245804-SV3C5OQ7DUPHV2J4HTKP/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jane Oliver Jane Oliver, Interior illustration for This Week Magazine. July 1954. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448056216580-X7O7VL06WJFCSEWGQYIV/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jane Oliver Jane Oliver. Interior Illustration for This Week Magazine. May 1954. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448056195442-6FOSXUGA8NYQE750CT8X/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jane Oliver Jane Oliver, Print ad for Sheraton Hotels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448056167206-VUP92FZ18RGG6RD40X2T/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jane Oliver Jane Oliver, "Side of Store, Key West". Watercolor. American Artist Magazine. January 1957. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448056068313-AI3B4LS4WY03NX6FFXPZ/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Jane Oliver Jane Oliver. Holiday Card. Undated. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/19/rose-oneill monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449494709140-L26R2U98ZGNLWSI7B8T5/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Rose O'Neill Rose O'Neill, Jell-O ad. 1920. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449494609106-NXF11DNK2WYV5O5FP5GC/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Rose O'Neill Rose O'Neill, Kewpie illustration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449495071339-41UC11NBMU2VOORDX9HQ/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Rose O'Neill Rose O'Neill, Kewpie supplement. Good Housekeeping. July 1914. O’Neill concocted the Kewpies in her cartooning work, then used them to launch one of the first mass-market toys. She would use the Kewpies as a vehicle for many years, though her artistic pursuits ranged notably beyond them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449494913051-AIXQVAEUG0KND4HZ78UO/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Rose O'Neill Rose O'Neill, "Kewpieville," Ladies Home Journal. February 1926. For a time O’Neill had a running feature under this title in LHJ. It consisted of light verse with cartoon drawings. The detail of the dragonfly (below) suggests that she had considerable range as a draftsperson, endowing the creature (and the Kewpies) with persuasive mass and volume, as well as plenty of animated vitality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1461955258328-AAZX1X27HGP5GNW6FAEK/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Rose O'Neill Rose O'Neill, detail of dragonfly and Kewpies in "Kewpieville," Ladies Home Journal. February 1926. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1461958882477-0ZSO4UZX3FXSF5OA1HTO/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Rose O'Neill Rose O'Neill, detail of signature, Ladies Home Journal. February 1926. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449494986382-D3LUAYQRQ9HEWHHDBD4I/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Rose O'Neill Rose O'Neill, "Kewpieville". Ladies Home Journal. May 1927. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449494791313-NJU29KCGMW4XWTNTYMPW/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Rose O'Neill Rose O'Neill, Jell-O ad in the Ladies Home Journal. February 1919. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/19/maribeth-olson monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448055713117-YMKDL8SVQQK4L3N8K75T/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Maribeth Olson Meribeth Olsen, "Lady with a Secret". Good Housekeeping Magazine. March 1961. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448055751544-8MEM830JM67V1H7G3GQP/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Maribeth Olson Maribeth Olson, "McCall's Beauty Department: The Most Precious Skin in the World...Yours!". McCall's Magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448055833709-HY60C81OCG1GG5IORT2R/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Maribeth Olson Maribeth Olson, Interior Story Illustration for Redbook. December 1959. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/19/violet-oakley monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448054461233-UIWSXCEMFGBV70FP35T8/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Violet Oakley Violet Oakley, The Constitutional Convention and the Birth of the Union. Senate Murals, Pennsylvania Capitol Building. Dedicated in 1917. The images shown here were torn from a promotional booklet published by the State of Pennsylvania about Oakley's murals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448054412369-C1N4962AD7LZ9ECNK3MF/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Violet Oakley Violet Oakley, The Dedication of the Living to the Preservation of the Union. Senate Murals, Pennsylvania Capitol Building. Dedicated in 1917. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448054528510-EU77P43F9NVPGQG3AQ2V/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Violet Oakley Violet Oakley, Penn Turns from the World to Hear and to Heed the Quakers Preaching in the Field at Oxford. Reception room murals, Pennsylvania Capitol Building. Unveiled in 1906. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448054498089-48JYO0YPXAN6KF3K7YFV/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Violet Oakley Violet Oakley, Penn Driven from his Father's House and his Father's Ambitious Hopes is Arrested for Preaching. Reception room murals, Pennsylvania Capitol Building. Unveiled in 1906. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/19/fern-bisel-peat monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463509965466-4TRE1U5B5NN5EE6TTKI3/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fern Bisel Peat Fern Bisel Peat, Children's Playmate cover illustration. August 1938. Published by A.R. Mueller Printing Co, Cleveland, Ohio. More Children's Playmate covers and interior spreads appear below. The magazine was the most durable engagement of Peat's long career. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463544190418-MSCQQHTIF8R5D7KVEM0K/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fern Bisel Peat Fern Bisel Peat, Children's Playmate cover illustration. February 1952. Published by A.R. Mueller Printing Co, Cleveland, Ohio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449498292548-J1U804HQUMC4DYTIUZJ9/peat_fern_bisel_rags_cover.jpg Illustration History - Fern Bisel Peat Fern Bisel Peat, cover illustration for Rags. Published by Saalfield Publishing Company in 1929. In a sort of proto-Toy Story tale, the doll Rags interacts with other toys and playthings. The stitchery on her face falls short of charmingly handmade, and feels a bit Frankensteinian. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449498857385-EL4PPAPUKRMWAVV5SXYV/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fern Bisel Peat Fern Bisel Peat, Rags. Published by Saalfield Publishing Company in 1929. Note several regrettable visual tropes born of a children-of-the-world conceit; a yellow-skinned "oriental" doll in Rags' right arm, and an African-American "pickaninny" doll in her left. The baby in the carriage has been replaced by a monkey. All told the Rags project, which I picked up at an antique shop in St. Louis, is fairly creepy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449498918587-MG1LGQGG1M6OD2R3I7V1/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fern Bisel Peat Fern Bisel Peat, Rags. Published by Saalfield Publishing Company in 1929. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449498800046-2VAAA4CDEJP8YM9AFR04/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fern Bisel Peat Fern Bisel Peat, book illustration in Rags. Published by Saalfield Publishing Company in 1929. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463510044632-PCH2482ADN39N9AF6DLS/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fern Bisel Peat Fern Bisel Peat, Children's Playmate cover illustration. July 1948. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463510633695-FSOAA2EEU3E31993WZPZ/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fern Bisel Peat Fern Bisel Peat, Playmate cover illustration. August 1948. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463510204659-NK9JDN7FOBAHXKLV83OS/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fern Bisel Peat Fern Bisel Peat, Playmate cover. March 1939. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463510419134-FCV2QC9WZTKIJJIYPRM9/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fern Bisel Peat Fern Bisel Peat, paper cutout illustrations, Playmate. March 1939. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463510465919-YL1BFXEGLNYT7WOCCG2G/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fern Bisel Peat Fern Bisel Peat, paper cutout illustrations, Playmate. July 1948. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463511427217-F5BA1LVDCQTO996G61DV/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fern Bisel Peat Fern Bisel Peat, paper cutout illustrations, Playmate. November 1948. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449498638349-NJW5UNV3EZUNRPZW6NMB/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fern Bisel Peat Fern Bisel Peat, cover illustration for Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. Published by Saalfield Publishing Company in 1940. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449499146807-JE9FQ204MY581XIX010Y/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fern Bisel Peat Fern Bisel Peat, Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. Published by Saalfield Publishing Company in 1940. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449499020459-4B54SJKPIQWP5P9EM1F9/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fern Bisel Peat Fern Bisel Peat, Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. Published by Saalfield Publishing Company in 1940. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449499084380-LBGCDWNLBSOCFW60K0V5/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fern Bisel Peat Fern Bisel Peat, Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. Published by Saalfield Publishing Company in 1940. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449499647092-NGCXJ4QYL5JP4WP5BBGP/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fern Bisel Peat Fern Bisel Peat, Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. Published by Saalfield Publishing Company in 1940. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449499386720-GP9R5PIEA6P9W7F05LLI/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Fern Bisel Peat Fern Bisel Peat, Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. Published by Saalfield Publishing Company in 1940. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/19/clara-elsene-peck monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448057617015-H2MXDYZJU7YF8OMMNEND/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Clara Elsene Peck Clara Elsene Peck, "King's Great Aunt: Will You Permit this Insolence, Your Majesty?". Ladies Home Journal. June 1921. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448057347704-NLRBNQKTFWUBVW8ZTKOP/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Clara Elsene Peck Clara Elsene Peck. A Lady of King Arthur's Court. Written by Sara Hawks Sterling. 1907. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448057785780-D3YZQLX9NN7K48F9D00R/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Clara Elsene Peck Clara Elsene Peck. A Lady of King Arthur's Court. Written by Sara Hawks Sterling. Frontispiece. 1907. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448057765329-BYC2F4SDF8GBNY2746D3/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Clara Elsene Peck Clara Elsene Peck, "Let us go, she said. Life is Before Us." A Lady of King Arthur's Court. Written by Sara Hawks Sterling. Book Illustration. 1907. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448057641770-OYLWSB42JCPW1ONWT24R/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Clara Elsene Peck Clara Elsene Peck, Ivory Soap print advertisement. The Saturday Evening Post. May 15, 1920. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448057821126-X9OTQNULXDB9B4D2LOCS/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Clara Elsene Peck Clara Elsene Peck, In the Border Country. Title Page. Written by Josephine Daskam Bacon. 1909. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448057481227-0QKRDJV02XWX2QCZOH4A/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Clara Elsene Peck Clara Elsene Peck, In the Border Country. Written by Josephine Daskam Bacon. Book Illustration. 1909. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448057586980-AETWTO3SH9BUSQESUWZF/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Clara Elsene Peck Clara Elsene Peck, "Twelve Hours' Treasure". Written by Phyllis Wyatt Brown. The Delineator. December 1914. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448057576873-U2YRX7NOEILO7S4IN3K2/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Clara Elsene Peck Clara Elsene Peck, "Doctors". Written by Grace Robinson. Liberty Magazine. April 5, 1930. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448057498756-05K9UP5G1YS6ZTRPW51R/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Clara Elsene Peck Clara Elsene Peck, "Doctors". Written by Grace Robinson. Liberty Magazine. April 5, 1930. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1463959994738-JON03E88VQS1F63FI5YM/image-asset.png Illustration History - Clara Elsene Peck Malcolm Kildale, cover illustration, Treasure Chest comics, Volume 2, No. 13, February 1947. Clara Elsene Peck had a three page comic feature in this issue devoted to the story of "Young George Washington." Note: this image was acquired from the Grand Comics Database. It is not in the Walt Reed Archive, and I have not seen the Clara Peck story referred to above. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/19/mary-petty monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448056823006-16MQTHVVTAHSLK39W60P/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Mary Petty Mary Petty, cover illustration for The New Yorker. April 10, 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448056787539-LH9OBA5O4IFVPID1FRGO/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Mary Petty Mary Petty, cover illustration for The New Yorker. March 14, 1942. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448056872430-NK5HEZUYIT1SD9SOXY57/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Mary Petty Mary Petty, cover illustration for The New Yorker. July 18, 1942. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/19/martha-sawyers monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448058920560-W2J4017YZRYX82URGDI1/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Martha Sawyers Martha Sawyers, Cover illustration for Colliers. December 7, 1946. This is a complicated image. The publication date of the magazine is five years to the day after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. The U.S. has won the war, and costume clues in the left foreground tell us that the blonde bathing woman is an occupying American military officer. She regards a Japanese periodical (perhaps uncomprehendingly) while an Japanese woman–some sort of an attendant–scrubs her back. The illustration conveys matter-of-fact subjugation, a mixture of national and (implicitly) racial triumph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448058736874-0TIBDXYL3PG2BHZ7SEBH/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Martha Sawyers Martha Sawyers, interior illustration. Colliers Magazine. May 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448058765203-WNNXZOWTPS9IGB7RQ57R/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Martha Sawyers Martha Sawyers, "China Sky". Written by Pearl S. Buck. Colliers Magazine. February 1941. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448058700996-EOEWQFXKEJUEPFKEZ5GT/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Martha Sawyers Martha Sawyers, "China Sky". Written by Pearl S. Buck. Colliers Magazine. February 1941. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448058781557-U9CTM0E4T03IZIUVXIJE/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Martha Sawyers Martha Sawyers, portrait of Mrs. Bashiran. Sketch from Delhi, India. Colliers Magazine. February 1946. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448058804942-AWR62F2BM4GOZWM7CAZX/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Martha Sawyers Written and illustrated by Martha Sawyers, "Women in Seclusion". Colliers Magazine. February 1946. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448058823011-C1FSDA1L5JDAYG3QQ50V/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Martha Sawyers Martha Sawyers, "Honorable Homecoming". Written by Mona Gardner. Colliers Magazine. June 1941. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448058846870-CCAHRVPVTSI8LFMG56Y2/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Martha Sawyers Martha Sawyers, interior illustration. Colliers Magazine. October 1940. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448058874808-6ZIA56TG385AJTH5BOXQ/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Martha Sawyers Martha Sawyers, "Death in the Pot". Written by Walter Duranty. Colliers Magazine. November 1941. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1448058898382-N98D47ER8D6WTIR5FHRR/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Martha Sawyers Written and Illustrated by Martha Sawyers, "The Face of China". Colliers Magazine. December 1945. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/19/the-reeses-emily-and-walter monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449469874272-3HB8XMHZ1NOUL4K3GUKK/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - The Reeses (Emily and Walter) The Reeses, Print ad for Scranton filet nets and lace curtains. Ladies Home Journal. October 1918. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449470861262-0S4FI5GN5JV9D1DHASUD/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - The Reeses (Emily and Walter) The Reeses, Print ad for Wolfhead Undergarments. Ladies Home Journal. March 1920. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449470562385-3QEDLF55WS50LLBVG3H6/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - The Reeses (Emily and Walter) The Reeses, Print ad for Williams' Talc Powder. Ladies Home Journal. May 1919. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449470148124-VTVICZXMJ6I1AD8YM8ZR/reeses_TheLadiesHomeJournal_WarnerCorsetting_100022.jpg Illustration History - The Reeses (Emily and Walter) The Reeses, Print ad for Warner Corseting. Ladies Home Journal. October 1922. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449488169132-9BEL6B41UR4UKN1WLTWP/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - The Reeses (Emily and Walter) The Reeses, Print ad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449468141145-G6O9RPKDNFH0SGXN1WI2/reeses_LeisureVassarOxford_1920.jpg Illustration History - The Reeses (Emily and Walter) The Reeses, Print ad for Leisure Vassar Oxford. 1920. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1449469420895-DK8N2PJEOHSFMB9ZVQMN/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - The Reeses (Emily and Walter) The Reeses, Print ad in Ladies Home Journal. July 1922. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2016/1/21/ruth-eastman monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1453412755699-9WT2MQ36BZKQU8AWKX7D/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Ruth Eastman Ruth Eastman, cover for McCall's Magazine. January 1916. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1453412798954-OPQ6IFHM3ZAYTL7UOAND/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Ruth Eastman Ruth Eastman, cover for Today's Housewife. May 1917. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1453412707170-UZ1AR4GFE224ZHXXBFGO/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Ruth Eastman Ruth Eastman, cover for McCall's Magazine. March 1915. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2016/1/21/kay-draper monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454015046166-1HTJ6NFE03E3LJJ420BG/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Kay Draper (Kayren Draper) Kay Draper, Living Arithmetic: Grade 3. Written by Guy T. Buswell and Lenore Joh. The book also contains illustrations by artists Herbert Paus, Florence Heyn, and George van Werveke. Published by Ginn & Co. These images were scanned from the 1947 edition. The book was first published in 1938, and I believe that the illustrations would have been executed for the first printing. Herbert Paus was doing Collier's covers in the late 1930s, and his work for Buswell and Joh's book consisted of fully modeled genre scenes in color and black and white. Draper's efforts, by contrast, were limited to these one- and two-color images that ran atop pages; such images provide visual breaks, but are sometimes referred to as decorations, a gendered term. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1457902212785-2EC03TOIWUZEE4M3QVSB/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Kay Draper (Kayren Draper) Kay Draper, Title page with spot illustration, The Alpha Individual Arithmetics, Book One, Part II. Ginn and Company, 1929. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1457902615633-F1XEPRO2NIQNC1VX3QMI/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Kay Draper (Kayren Draper) Kay Draper, The Toy Shop, from The Alpha Individual Arithmetics, 1929. Draper's two-color work for this schoolbook project is more subtly manifested, due to specifications permitting modulated optical values and tonalities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454014977883-T3AEIXHALY6H6NEXRKVF/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Kay Draper (Kayren Draper) Kay Draper, Living Arithmetic: Grade 3. 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454015079794-MP5LNASEDAUAY38OG87B/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Kay Draper (Kayren Draper) Kay Draper, Living Arithmetic: Grade 3. 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454015102409-SXX18GH5GIVXF95TZT6H/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Kay Draper (Kayren Draper) Kay Draper, Living Arithmetic: Grade 3. 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454015026896-VMC62PCFAM71HILHJJ1J/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Kay Draper (Kayren Draper) Kay Draper, Living Arithmetic: Grade 3. 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454015135144-KW9Y44ZMGI1PI8DO7MS1/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Kay Draper (Kayren Draper) Kay Draper, Living Arithmetic: Grade 3. 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454015003705-1EPYAZ1YXWN4EZ0KSAOO/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Kay Draper (Kayren Draper) Kay Draper, Living Arithmetic: Grade 3. 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454014865910-5DCWZVU6YDRC3AFAVFLF/draper_daybyday_1950_5.jpg Illustration History - Kay Draper (Kayren Draper) Kay Draper, illustrations for Day by Day, a Quinlan Basic Reader. Written by Myrtle Banks Quinlan. Published by Allyn and Bacon, 1950. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454014851446-MUILB0DCHXMQWIU9T4SD/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Kay Draper (Kayren Draper) Kay Draper, Day by Day. 1950. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454014923545-PMW8NLRXX2PFGK8G7B0T/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Kay Draper (Kayren Draper) Kay Draper, Day by Day. 1950. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454017708707-XVR5NASBX02D91PW8SGY/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Kay Draper (Kayren Draper) Kay Draper, Day by Day. 1950. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454017692623-W9Q89JFZUEOV49W60UPJ/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Kay Draper (Kayren Draper) Kay Draper, Day by Day. 1950. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454017680480-DXW8KOAP0XXRXZE15VEV/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Kay Draper (Kayren Draper) Kay Draper, Day by Day. 1950. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454014807631-2BEGA3JH98D3HNNQLXWC/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Kay Draper (Kayren Draper) Kay Draper, Day by Day. 1950. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454014795249-W6O4SY6N5V4E5RWHIB8E/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Kay Draper (Kayren Draper) Kay Draper, Day by Day. 1950. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2016/1/26/florence-and-margaret-hoopes monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454019566563-4KP74YXEUJUKW9UXLG5W/aliceandjerry_dayindayout_cover.jpg Illustration History - The Hoopes Sisters Day In and Day Out book cover. Written by Mabel O' Donnell & Alice Carey. Published by Row, Peterson and Co, 1936. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454019635437-TVGHNFYL6J5JVN9WTDNU/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - The Hoopes Sisters Singing Wheels book cover. Written by Mabel O' Donnell. Published by Row, Peterson and Co, 1940. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454019591472-TAC4NC8NL1L9MGY0FNOF/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - The Hoopes Sisters Singing Wheels book cover. Written by Mabel O' Donnell and Alice Carey. Published by Row, Peterson and Co, 1936. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454019693982-GIDT4BF89YL0IOWOZYRZ/hoopes_dayindayout_1936_1.jpg Illustration History - The Hoopes Sisters Hoopes, Day in and Day Out. 1936. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454620622168-NZD89KOL1TQPAYQ3WMRS/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - The Hoopes Sisters Hoopes, If I Were Going. 1936. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454620651325-2KR1FYEMJJCAX2IZLYA7/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - The Hoopes Sisters Hoopes, If I Were Going. 1936. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454620730826-OVSXGDSZQM3LZWDE7136/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - The Hoopes Sisters Hoopes, If I Were Going. 1936. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454620757866-4IFS41NLKXUOCRJEXNDK/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - The Hoopes Sisters Hoopes, If I Were Going. 1936. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454620949522-552QFQ0RSFUXM5NZUTRM/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - The Hoopes Sisters Hoopes, If I Were Going. 1936. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454019797802-OPWY5MRZNNWWZ67IWDG3/hoopes_downtheriverroad_3.jpg Illustration History - The Hoopes Sisters Hoopes, Down the River Road. 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454019581006-FI9IFNKEWX4Z7HDZMZDS/aliceandjerry_downtheriverroad_cover.jpg Illustration History - The Hoopes Sisters Down the River Road book cover. Written by Mabel O' Donnell. Published by Row, Peterson and Co, 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454019817873-Q3X725LRCDRSFKHPT0UG/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - The Hoopes Sisters Hoopes, Down the River Road. 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454621008772-35CQMJEVRA4WXTPGJ6BQ/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - The Hoopes Sisters Hoopes, Neighbors on the Hill. 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454621057157-6OF6YOXOINWAAOWPH75E/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - The Hoopes Sisters Hoopes, Neighbors on the Hill. 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454621107089-KHJAGQ7NN5BENWXH4PDB/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - The Hoopes Sisters Hoopes, Neighbors on the Hill. 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454019762057-1DAMFJRTVJQQGN97HY43/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - The Hoopes Sisters Hoopes, Singing Wheels. 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454019840380-U8EBWBFPPOYRVVUGHW2P/hoopes_singingwheels_1940_1.jpg Illustration History - The Hoopes Sisters Hoopes, Singing Wheels. 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454019721728-LE7ZN1K7UER5KEGDSRLU/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - The Hoopes Sisters Hoopes, Day in and Day Out. 1936. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454019616127-ZI1PP8GDB7EFD78E7G61/aliceandjerry_neighborsonthehill_cover.jpg Illustration History - The Hoopes Sisters Neighbors on the Hill book cover. Written by Marjorie Flack and Mabel O' Donnell. Published by Row, Peterson and Co, 1943. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454019732138-LGLK0KJZFJJ1TVXHD99E/hoopes_dayindayout_1936_2.jpg Illustration History - The Hoopes Sisters Hoopes, Day in and Day Out. 1936. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454019844913-GCE4QIW0XSGKA661WBMW/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - The Hoopes Sisters Hoopes, Singing Wheels. 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454019872409-MRXANSL8BSUPNKUKK2VJ/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - The Hoopes Sisters Hoopes, Down the River Road. 1938. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454621081319-PGS0D8COSIYAAIVXCNYK/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - The Hoopes Sisters Hoopes, Neighbors on the Hill. 1943. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/13/alice-beard monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447452197187-2L1XRTKO7CPMPGED1PWA/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Alice Beard Alice Beard, Cover Illustration. Sunday Magazine of the Rocky Mountain News. October 29, 1911. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447452060423-TB6FLBXSLEVRQR47C47E/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Alice Beard Alice Beard, Cover Illustration. Harper's Weekly Magazine. December 18, 1909. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454014495448-JUGBNVWIDASIGUATQTWF/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Alice Beard Alice Beard, frontispiece in the novel Elizabeth Bess, by E.C. Scott. Published The Macmillan Company, 1917. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454014506285-MQWPBEXGJEBHGZOFHDL5/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Alice Beard Alice Beard, illustration from Elizabeth Bess. 1917. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454014527161-MATQU3SEPLE4ZM8TU4IX/beard_elizabethbess_1917_3.jpg Illustration History - Alice Beard Alice Beard, illustration from Elizabeth Bess. 1917. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1454014516466-M3S2ALUQ74EA54Z8Y8NI/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Alice Beard Alice Beard, illustration from Elizabeth Bess. 1917. https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/13/anne-whelan-betts monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447452619997-T4790YKKE1H62YWA0T5G/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Anna Whelan Betts Anna Whelan Betts, "Easter Bonnet". in Century Magazine. April 1904. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447452668683-TIXQ2SDTTUCE2GH4P93V/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Anna Whelan Betts Anna Whelan Betts. "The New Game" Frontispiece for Century Magazine. August 1904. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447452921478-68L01J1C6WL6NI8XCPBA/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Anna Whelan Betts Anna Whelan Betts. "Tether Ball". Everybody's Magazine. August 1903. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447452871999-LPD4MRAD64YY4L4RV8PT/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Anna Whelan Betts Anna Whelan Betts. "Angling". Everybody's Magazine. August 1903. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538f6225e4b08958227ffcb5/1447452961377-XTZ9YAFF3SI4TGXX0DPH/image-asset.jpeg Illustration History - Anna Whelan Betts Anna Whelan Betts. "Fencing". Everybody's Magazine. 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