Part 1: Detournement (The Beginning of the end)

December 30th, 2010

[This next topic I'm tackling is sorta big. In fact, it's so profoundly influential (yet completely ignored [...]

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T-Shirts: Ubiquitous as Belly Buttons

December 27th, 2010

The unfortunate origins of the t-shirt in America begin with slavery. The t-shirt was cheap easy field [...]

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The Late, Great Don Martin

December 23rd, 2010

Recognize this illustrator? You should. He’s one of the most famous cartoon/humorist illustrators of the last half [...]

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Sugar-Coated Nothings and Cigarettes

December 20th, 2010

Meet Joe the Camel. He’s the most famous camel who ever lived. “Old Joe” was a featured [...]

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Fads in Typography

December 16th, 2010

Right now we’re going through a huge fad of handwritten lettering. I think it was inspired by [...]

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Awesome Crappy Cat Poster

December 13th, 2010

This little poster is from the mid 1970′s, back when I was a student still attending Western [...]

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Edward Gorey and Faulty Equations

December 9th, 2010

Edward Gorey is so famous at this point, that I hardly need to even mention him here. [...]

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December 6th, 2010

Mike Calkins posted a rather special item here on my FB™ page a while back that I [...]

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Before He Took Off: Ron Hauge at The Rocket

December 2nd, 2010

The other day, I spent some time talking about Lynda barry and her early days at The [...]

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Yokoyama

A (nearly) daily feature of this blog (for now – I’m hedging) will be a random picture sent from Yuichi Yokoyama’s phone, without explanation. Here is today’s.

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Blog

Yokoyama

A (nearly) daily feature of this blog (for now – I’m hedging) will be a random picture sent from Yuichi Yokoyama’s phone, without explanation. Here is today’s.

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Blog

Yokoyama

A (nearly) daily feature of this blog (for now – I’m hedging) will be a random picture sent from Yuichi Yokoyama’s phone, without explanation. Here is today’s.

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