William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) was a victorian cartoonist best known for drawing overly complicated mechanisms able to achieve only simple … [Read more...]
Liam Cobb, “Reflections” and Other Drawings
Liam Cobb is an illustrator and comic artist we have already featured on Socks. Here we collect a series of sketches, croquis, half finished … [Read more...]
‘Book To The Head’ And Other Comics by Max Baitinger
Max Baitinger is a German comic designer, illustrator and animator. After studying carpentry, he moved to Leipzig to study illustration. His style is … [Read more...]
Collecting, Rearranging and Reinventing: Ray Yoshida’s Comic Works
Throughout his career artist Ray Yoshida produced a long series of collages featuring excerpts from comic books. The working process includes the … [Read more...]
Drawing Soane: a Comic by Eu Jin Lim
Young architect Eu Jin Lim chose the house John Soane built for himself in Lincoln's Inn Fields in London as the setting of a short comic. The drawing … [Read more...]
The Poetics of Time: “Here” by Richard McGuire (1989 – 2014)
In 2014 comic artist, illustrator and musician Richard McGuire has (finally) published "Here", a 300 pages graphic novel whose only background is the … [Read more...]
City Strips: “All Action Architecture From Some of The Most Read Cities of Fiction Earth”
Following our 2014 post "Spuk, a Story without Characters by Niklas Rüegg", and our 2010 post "Minus", here is another exercise in comic strips … [Read more...]
“A History of Street Cats” by Chia-Chi Yu
Chia-Chi Yu is an illustrator based in Taiwan. She graduated from the National Art School in France and started his career in 2006. Her works are … [Read more...]
How Saul Steinberg sees Modern Living
These illustrations by Saul Steinberg, the great cartoonist and illustrator who used to define himself as "a writer who draws", … [Read more...]
Drawing the Naked City: Shohei Manabe
What is striking in the precise drawings of the japanese comic artist Manabe Shohei is their ability to immediately express the feeling of a street or … [Read more...]
“The true story of Mr Like”, By Nanni and Colella – Crowdfunding Campaign
As you may have / already / noticed, we particularly like the work of Italian author, illustrator and comic artist Giacomo Nanni, namely his studies … [Read more...]
A Selection of Texture Based Sketches by Giacomo Nanni
This series of drawings has been recently posted by Italian illustrator and comic artist (and friend) Giacomo Nanni. An ongoing exploration of … [Read more...]
Antoine Desailly’s Repetition Drawings
Born in 1982, Antoine Desailly is a graduate from ENSBA (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris). His work is based primarily on … [Read more...]
A Hundred Scenes of Life (50-75) by Tu Hao Chin
Tu Hao Chin, digital and painter artist, lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan. His website is at: butsupersoft.com Also check his Behance page: … [Read more...]
Duck and Cover, Nuclear War Awareness campaign
In 1951, shortly after the Soviet Union began nuclear testing, the US Federal government's Civil Defense started producing a series of films and … [Read more...]
Giacomo Nanni – 21 12 2012
Giacomo Nanni is translating his personal technique of hatches and Moiré patterns from drawings to animations. Best watching in HD. … [Read more...]
Roberto La Forgia “Il signore dei colori”
Roberto La Forgia is one of those artists whose indisputable talent needs some time to completely bloom. Knowing him since almost six years now we've … [Read more...]
Tiger Tateishi, The Vanishing City (Milan)
A late seventies wordless comic by Tiger Tateishi, who was working at the Ettore Sottsass architecture and design firm, at the time of this … [Read more...]
Katsuhiro Otomo’s Domu
The chilling 1983 manga "Domu, a child's dream" , by Katsuhiro Otomo of Akira's fame, revolves around a child and an old man conducting telekinetic … [Read more...]
Tigers Factory, by Mayumi Otero
Illustration for the newspaper Le Tigre numéro 5. mayumiotero.com … [Read more...]
“Images drifting into the distance”, a cycle of conferences, debates, meetings, by Benoit Peeters
The Centre Pompidou program of evenings during the last three months of this year is particularly rich (Anri Sala, Kusama, Matali Crasset among … [Read more...]
Osamu Tezuka B/W Phoenix drawings
Phoenix (火の鳥 Hi no Tori) is a manga series by Osamu Tezuka. Tezuka considered Phoenix his “life’s work”; it consists of 12 books, each of which tells … [Read more...]
Their version of the story
The guys of the italian graphic design and illustration office H-57 like to propose their version of the history of famous people, like Michael … [Read more...]
Illustrations by Klas Fahlen
Klas Fahlen, illustrator. Via: Anarchycomitecture … [Read more...]
