Buster Keaton: Anarchitect
Great article about comedian Buster Keaton, his stunts and his relationship with spaces and environments, illustrated with GIFs from his 1920s films.
Interviews, quotes, biographies and obituaries
Great article about comedian Buster Keaton, his stunts and his relationship with spaces and environments, illustrated with GIFs from his 1920s films.
NYT obituary of a master concept artist and hero of industrial design students everywhere. When we learned to render with markers, we referenced him a lot. Not only did he draw extremely well, he designed some incredibly cool-looking things.
“All ideas go through three stages,” he told The Boston Globe in 1985. “The first stage is the idea itself. Thinking of that is a whole specialty in itself, because if something exists someone had to think of it.
“After that,” he continued, “the next stage is documentation. That can be anything from a set of sketches or an oil painting to a written description to a working model. The last step is manufacture. Making it real.
“Me, I’m hired to do the first two steps. I worry about the ideas, not the facts.”
The Comics Journal interviews Jeff Smith of “Bone” fame.
Albert Uderzo’s obituary in The Comics Journal. One of my biggest cartooning heroes when I was a kid, still think Asterix is absolutely brilliant.
Mort Drucker’s obituary in The Comics Journal.