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 architectural assistant Eu Jin Lim chose the house John Soane built for himself in Lincoln's Inn Fields in London as the setting of a short … [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...]
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...]
Cani (Dogs), by Giacomo Nanni
Chris Ware, back cover
CW: "Yeah, it’s a map of this story. I mean, the title is “The Smartest Kid on Earth,”, so the front of it is the character and on the back is the … [Read more...]
Non sono un capriolo – I’m not a deer, by Giacomo Nanni
Some months ago Italian illustrator and cartoonist Giacomo Nanni (author of the recently published "La vera storia di Lara Canepa") started narrating … [Read more...]
XKCD’s Radiation dose chart
A handy recap, just in case. Click to zoom. Via: BoingBoing. … [Read more...]
Makihiko, by Roberto la Forgia
"Insomma cercate di capire: sono a casa dei miei genitori e la voglia di non fare un cazzo è alta. (In short, try to understand: I'm at home by my … [Read more...]
Mp5 + To/Let in Germany
Our super talented friend Mp5, with all-female collective To/Let, just painted a huge wall on an abandoned building in Germany. … [Read more...]
Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01
Madox is a 1988 anime OVA released in Japan. Beautiful animated imagery found on Concept Robots: … [Read more...]
Io sono il dinosauro, di Roberto La Forgia
Roberto "Multitasking" La Forgia: Blog, Illustrazioni, Little Pills TV, Book trailers, Facebook, Flickr,Tumblr, Twitter, Rizzoli Lizard. … [Read more...]
