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Mervyn Peake’s Illustrations For The Gormenghast Trilogy (1970)

Mervyn Peake’s Illustrations For The Gormenghast Trilogy (1970)

“There is no really close relative to it in all our prose literature. It is uniquely brilliant” ...
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Pablo Picasso’s Illustrated Postcards To His Friends

Pablo Picasso’s Illustrated Postcards To His Friends

Picasso's postcards to Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Leo Stein and Guillaume Apollinaire ...
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Michelangelo’s Brilliantly Drawn 16th-Century Grocery List

Michelangelo’s Brilliantly Drawn 16th-Century Grocery List

“The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis” - Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose ...
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Illustrations by Heinrich Strub for Das Feuerzeug by Hans Christian Andersen

Illustrations by Heinrich Strub for Das Feuerzeug by Hans Christian Andersen

These great illustrations by Heinrich Strub were created for Das Feuerzeug (The Tinderbox ) by Hans Christian ...
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Emotional Anatomy: Sensational Illustrations To A Somatic Life

Emotional Anatomy: Sensational Illustrations To A Somatic Life

"We generally think of an attitude as a mental set. An attitude is a bodily set. Our attitudes are the framework of our form” - Stanley Keleman ...
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The Illuminated Moby-Dick: Artist Illustrates Every Page of Herman Melville’s Epic Book

The Illuminated Moby-Dick: Artist Illustrates Every Page of Herman Melville’s Epic Book

"I wanted a slow, intense pace through the book so I decided to create one illustration a day, every day, for every single one of the 552 pages of my Signet Classics paperback, and on August 4, 2009 I began" - Matt Kiss ...
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‘Because It’s So Damn Good’: An Interview With Pioneering Illustrator Jim French (NSFW)

‘Because It’s So Damn Good’: An Interview With Pioneering Illustrator Jim French (NSFW)

French and McLaren a common aim: to blow the lid off repression via the open celebration of sexuality ...
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13 Outlines of Various Countries – Funny Maps From The 1860s

13 Outlines of Various Countries – Funny Maps From The 1860s

"Beautiful England - on her Island throne - Grandly she rules - with half the world her own; From her vast empire the sun ne'er departs: She reigns a Queen - Victoria Queen of Hearts" ...
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Jules Verne: The Man Who Invented the Future

Jules Verne: The Man Who Invented the Future

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real" - Jules Verne, Around The World In Eighty Days ...
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‘I Jumped From The Window’ And Other Illustrations of the American Slave Trade (1817)

‘I Jumped From The Window’ And Other Illustrations of the American Slave Trade (1817)

"And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, shall surely be put to death" - Exodus xxi. 16. ...
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Emmie Tsumura’s Illustrations of People Who Want You to Work For Free

Emmie Tsumura’s Illustrations of People Who Want You to Work For Free

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to" - Dorothy Parker ...
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30 Outrageous 2-Page Pulp Art from Mid-Century Men’s Magazines

30 Outrageous 2-Page Pulp Art from Mid-Century Men’s Magazines

"Buddy leaned over the bar slobbering and burping into the night."  ...
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