New York Public Library Digital Collections; the tyranny of the cloud; comics journalism in the 1950’s; new interviews to read/read aloud and/or listen to; random word informatics.
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NYPL Digital Collections
Recently, the New York Public Library posted an amazing amount of content to its digital collection. Work above is from Indian coloured drawings: a collection of 177 original paintings on “talc,” etc., with 17 engravings, illustrating costume, vehicles and trades in India and Fred Carlo, Works Progress Administration, respectively.
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Exercises in Scrolling
Colonising the Clouds, an essay about Internet/institutional power structures, physical and virtual territories, ‘memory’, ETC.
Colonising the Clouds, an essay about Internet/institutional power structures, physical and virtual territories, ‘memory’, ETC.
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Mid-20th Century Comics Reportage
Featuring work by Noel Sickles (‘The immediacy of a direct drawing or sketch seldom breaks through in the more static nature of other forms of art.’) and Austin Briggs. Essay by Daniel Zalkus.
Featuring work by Noel Sickles (‘The immediacy of a direct drawing or sketch seldom breaks through in the more static nature of other forms of art.’) and Austin Briggs. Essay by Daniel Zalkus.
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Recent Interviews of Note
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Random Word/Phrase/Sentence/Paragraph Generator
This is a good site if you’re in a pinch for words. For illustrative purposes, the Random Paragraph Generator has been utilized above with the following keywords: ‘Frank Santoro’ + ‘Golden Age of Comics’ and ‘Frank Santoro’ + Comics Instruction’.
LOL that random word generator is hilarious