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Reads tagged with “illustration”

Hark! A Vagrant: Witty Comics about Historical & Literary Figures
Hark! A Vagrant: Witty Comics about Historical & Literary Figures

Training for presidents, Victorian dude-spotting, and what the Brontë Sisters have to do with Jules Verne.

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Gorgeous Grimm: 130 Years of Brothers Grimm Visual Legacy
Gorgeous Grimm: 130 Years of Brothers Grimm Visual Legacy

What evil stepmothers and conniving wolves have to do with understanding the future of reading.

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Edward Gorey’s Never-Before-Seen Letters and Illustrated Envelopes
Edward Gorey’s Never-Before-Seen Letters and Illustrated Envelopes

What a housefly has to do with Tim Burton and everything that makes snail mail great.

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The Unwilling Tourist: Vintage Czech Illustration Captures the Life of the Refugee
The Unwilling Tourist: Vintage Czech Illustration Captures the Life of the Refugee

What the dawn of the Czech avant-garde has to do with UN statistics and outsmarting Hitler.

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People: A Meditation on Human Duality by Illustrator Blexbolex
People: A Meditation on Human Duality by Illustrator Blexbolex

The difference between a dictator and a conductor, or why a biologist is the opposite of an astronomer.

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They Draw & Cook: Recipes Illustrated by Global Artists
They Draw & Cook: Recipes Illustrated by Global Artists

What starving artists have to do with toads, infatuated chickens, and the universal language of the cookie.

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Queenslander: Gorgeous Vintage Australian Illustrated Covers
Queenslander: Gorgeous Vintage Australian Illustrated Covers

Visual vignettes of the mundane and the monumental from 1920s and 1930s Australia.

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Wonderstruck: Remarkable New Work from Brian Selznick
Wonderstruck: Remarkable New Work from Brian Selznick

What a 50-year fold in the spacetime continuum of New York has to do with three pounds of love and Scorsese.

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Spitting in the Face of Creativity?
Spitting in the Face of Creativity?

Lessons in plagiarism from Polish magazine Przekrój.

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Illustrated Three-Line Novels by the One-Man Twitter of 1906 France
Illustrated Three-Line Novels by the One-Man Twitter of 1906 France

What an early 20th-century Parisian dandy had to do with political theater and the rise of micro-nonfiction.

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