Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

I’ve been absent this past week and a bit because I was in Saskatoon for a big conference, where I gave a paper on the impact of illustrators’ networks on visual communication. Bart Beaty, the European comics expert from Calgary, was there and gave a paper too. Anyways, I went by the Mendel Art Gallery, a place that I thought has always done a superb job of balancing local and nonlocal art. And there was this fabulous exhibition of drawings by Yuka Yamaguchi. For me, they transcend the merely weird-for-weird’s-sake because of the personal and heartfelt texts she sometimes provides for these pieces. This one only says “me and my hard-working proxy”, but current ones are inspired by her pregnancy, for instance.