Discovering Sebastian Stamm‘s artwork last week while talking about Tin&Big was a very pleasant surprise. A German animator, illustrator and vj with a genuine western cartoon style.
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Anima ’11
Who are the kings of cartoon and BD here in Europe? Frenchies? Spaniards? Naaaaaaaa, Belgians! And as one of the most outstanding Flemish illustrators Mr Brecht Evens deserves not one but many references @ our humble blog…
His water color series are seriously explosive and it doesn’t surprise us every Belgian & French publisher is willing to work with this young artist.
Record labels, magazines, newspapers… several publications squabbling over him because his highly complex & dense compositions englobe too many subtle details, some of them quite horrid…. watercolour are not for children’s books anymore…
Mr Evens was born in 1986 and studied illustration in Ghent, Belgium. His prizewinning debut comic book A Message from Space was released in 2005, followed by several other books including Vincent (2006) and The Wrong Place (2009), which recently won the Haarlem Comic Festival’s Willy Vandersteen Award for best Dutch-language graphic novel. If you haven’t had enough you may want to visit his flickr page.
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The “old” Madrid keeps rejuvenating every now and then and all those mental hospitals, electric power-stations, old theaters, breweries & dirty warehouses are finding new uses & opportunities…. sometimes multinationals buy old cultural buildings (Zara, H&M….) others it’s the other way round… and if not the local government, private foundations may also help with the creation of these new cultural spots in Madrid’s city center…. Casa Encendida, CaixaForum and the newspaper ABC has just inaugurated the ABC Museum of Drawing and Illustration.
ABC is one of Spain’s oldest living but dying daily newspapers…. which doesn’t mean you should read it, but their documentary, cultural & historical archives & funds are extremely rich. And so they needed a new location for a more ambitious illustration museum and their long history of collaborations with artists such as Mingote, Martín Morales or Martín Mena.
The new location is in Amaniel St. (29-31), not even 100m away from another must cultural visit in Madrid: Conde Duque Cultural Centre. The rethought building for ABC was originally a Mahou Brewery (the first one in Spain) and
The new museum has an area of over 3,000 squared meters for the development of its activities, spread over six floors, two of them underground. It has two large exhibition rooms, multifunctional rooms, a plant intended for management jobs, a repository of work, a restoration laboratory, warehouse, cafe and last but not least, the most essential…. the shop.
Very ambitious for such a decaying newspaper which on the other hand has all the XX century Spanish History in its pages.
Currently there’s an exhibition entitled “The Iceberg effect. Spanish Drawings & Illustration at the end of two centuries” those 2 centuries (19th & 20th) which only the ABC has illustrated “like no other”. 350 works from ABC”s own collection which come from its very black & white origins to its latests collaborations.
So as we say (you have until March 13th), …. nothing better to do these cold days? Go for it then! (it’s free). Or if not, as it is until mid-March you may well wait for the sun to come out and have a few cañas at the Comendadoras Square just at the back of the building.
More info on their website…. but only in Spanish for now, sorry (get used to Google translate ok?).
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Another one of those pixel & infographic artists? Well yes, although Jude Buffum does it mostly for the fun rather than for the “artistic” recognision (and also for the €€€ of course)….
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An artist from Japan (you know… the empire who nearly killed the Swiss Watch industry) signs with Swiss watchmaker Swatch? And the result is the Electricity Man…
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If not very long ago we were talking about Eric Drooker’s New Yorker covers, today we shall pay attention to another great illustrator who also has a long list of amazing TNY orders: Ana Juan, who was just awarded with the Spanish national Illustration 2010 Prize given by the Culture Minister (20.000 cash prize basically)…
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Ryan Bubnis is a Californian illustrator (Portland based) with a very definite style whose faces, made mostly of patterns, are a “kind of hybrid between folk art + lowbrow”.
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Are you sitting comfortably? Then you can start reading this on-line comic collaboration (by Cure Studio) which is trying to reunite the contribution of 100 different illustrators… only 11 artists like Tom Hovey have contributed so far (at least published on-line) … so u still have time to participate…
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Tom Hovey‘s works are definitely no waste in space, with a long trajectory as a freelance illustrator and having worked with some of the most important agencies or brands, Tom likes to keep his hands dirty as most of his works are done by hand…
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Rather than just looking for embarrassing tweets & making a website out of it, why not just reinterpreting daily ones and make hilarious illustrations out of them? Twaggies is the best of the nerdy art…
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