Winsor Wednesdays

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Some beautiful McCay illustrations & book design from a little-known Hearst-published propaganda book. 1929.

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The full, glorious wrap-around cover.

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McCay was working in his standard Herald editorial-illustration style, which leads me to assume this book was authored by Arthur Brisbane.McCay015-1024x606The book also features cartoonier illustrations from Hearst cartoonist and friend of McCay, F. Opper.

The Locust Moon Top 40: August 2013

40.  Simon Stålenhag’s Sci-fi Suburbia

A Sweden turned inside out by science, yet still recognizably, nostalgically human.
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39. MARK SHULTZ’S XENOZOIC TALES ARTIST’S EDITION

Dinosaurs, dino-sized. Thanks yet again, IDW.
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38. LEGO Delorean

Where we’re going, we don’t need roads! Because LEGO cars are not street legal.
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37. Patton Oswalt trolling Twitter

“Eat the poor, disabled and hopeless. It’s the only way we can insure our future.”
I think he’s really onto something.

36. THE ANIMAL MAN OMNIBUS

Grant Morrison’s mind-bending genre-smasher is finally as heavy as it ought to be.
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35. Real-life Patlabor

Because one real-life giant robot was not enough for Japan. Thank god.
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34. Suggestions for Street Harassment

Hey HollabackPHILLY, let’s get on this:

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LITTLE NEMO: DREAM ANOTHER DREAM update

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with the project rolling along and some of our favorite creators having joined in recently, we wanted to announce a few folks we are honored to have join in on what’s shaping up to be a once-in-a-lifetime book. up first:

MIKE ALLRED

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mike might be best known for his long-running MADMAN universe.  Continue reading