Look Here: MOBY DICK and HOW… with cover art by Alan E. Cober

6 February 201510 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

TOO LITTLE TO0 LATE DEPT.

Here it is, only my second post of the new year, and already I’m feeling overburdened and under-inspired… so, no surprise, all I have to stimulate your photo-receptors today is yet another old cover, indifferently scanned by me from a battered paperback that I purchased for next to nothing from a local Thrift Store:

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**ABOVE:** Herman Melville, *Moby Dick* (New York: Harper & Row, c.1966), with cover art by Alan E. Cober.

But wait a minute… I just remembered something…

BONUS SCAN:

Now this is sort of cool, I think… here’s the cover of premiere issue of How… Ideas & Technique in Graphic Design (November/December 1985), scanned by me, just now, from the exact copy of the magazine that I purchased brand new at an art-supply store back in the day, and FYI, the art, the art supplies, and the hairy hands in the photograph by Carl Fischer (b.1924) all belong to Alan E. Cober (1935-1998), who in 2011 was posthumously inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame for lifetime achievement in illustration:

*How… Ideas & Technique in Graphic Design*, vol. 1, no. 1 (November/December 1985), with cover photograph by Carl Fischer and art by Alan E. Cober.

Enjoy!

Look Here: Two majestic MOBY DICK splash pages by Norman Nodel

8 August 201310 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

From Classics Illustrated #5: Moby Dick (March 1956), here are a pair of low-quality scans of Norman Nodel’s original art for pages one and forty five, along with a pair of really low-quality scans of the printed pages, and yet, the beauty of Norman Nodel’s fine-lined compositions shines through:

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You can learn a little bit about Jewish comics artist Norman Nodel (born Nochem Yeshaya) at the Lambiek Comiclopedia.

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Look Here: Two 1960s paperbacks with cover art by birthday-boy Milton Glaser

26 June 201310 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

Today, legendary graphic designer and illustrator Milton Glaser (b. 26 June 1929, New York City) celebrates his 84th birthday, so I dived into my stacks of old paperbacks, and this is what I came up with:

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“There is no security in the world, or in life. I don’t mind living with some ambiguity and realizing that eventually, everything changes.”
— Milton Glaser, in conversation with Debbie Millman,
How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer (2007)

“The story of how I decided to become an artist is this: When I was a very little boy, a cousin of mine came to my house with a paper bag. He asked me if I wanted to see a bird. I thought he had a bird in the bag. He stuck his hand in the bag, and I realized that he had drawn a bird on the side of a bag with a pencil. I was astonished! I perceived this as being miraculous. At that moment, I decided that was what I was going to do with my life. Create miracles.”
— Milton Glaser, in conversation with Debbie Millman,
How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer (2007)