Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

Check out these gorgeous preview images of STUDIOaka’s animated adaptation of Oliver Jeffers’s award-winning Lost and Found. There’s no trailer yet, but to me this is already a glowing example of how children’s books should be adapted to film — in a style that is faithful to the original artwork, and, at 25 minutes long, not stretched and padded to fill meet some arbitrary 90-minute feature length. (I’m looking at you, The Cat in the Hat)

I know that this is a little late, but Drawn! favorite Joel Trussell had an open reception for his Culture Jam Jelly show this past Thursday night at the Grassy Knoll Gallery in Portland, OR. The show is a stunner, with plenty of colorful bearded characters. Joel promised beforehand that not all of the show would consist of vikings, but honestly? I wouldn’t mind. As long as they have that unmistakable JT touch, I’m there. Oh, and just so you know, there are girls in the mix, too. Sans beards. One interesting feature of the show that can’t be missed: a wall covered with faux fur.

To view the show online, as well as to purchase the artwork, click here.

To view the show in person, be sure to contact the gallery by going to the site.

I took some shots of the show opening, including the wall of fur: Joel Trussell’s Culture Jelly Show Flickr set.

Oh, and I almost forgot. You can also nab yerself a limited edition show poster signed by Joel himself: Culture Jam Show Poster.

Hogan’s Alley has posted this amazing archive of cartoonist Roy Doty’s legendary annual Christmas Cards. The highly imaginative collection, dating back to 1950, features puzzles, contraptions, and other creative twists. 2007’s was even presented as a möbius strip.

(via Mike Lynch)

Some gorgeous type design and typographic illustration from London-based Seb Lester. You may also enjoy his treatment of everyone’s favourite curse word.

(Thanks, Joyce)

This swell wooden robot prints sits in my studio overlooking my drawing table. It’s the work of Tad Carpenter who has a brand new website full of more just like it.

There’s a great sense of colour and spontaneity in the digital sketches of Tony Papesh. Check out his work on his website, blog, and deviantART page.

(Thanks, Ericka)

Canadian magazine The Walrus has posted a two-part interview with cartoonist, author and creativity maven Lynda Barry (Part One | Part Two).

The conversation covers Lynda’s new book, What It Is, which is part journal comic and part workbook for blocked creative types. The article and book are recommended reading.

Previously:
Lynda Barry: What It Is
Lynda Barry on the Power of the Paintbrush

The always-awesome BibliOdyssey has posted a great sampling of E.H. Shepard’s original Winnie the Pooh drawings. Seeing them again reminds me how charming and perfect they are, and it almost makes one forget the now-soulless Disneyfied versions.

Oh boy, I love this Alice in Wonderland image from Spanish cartoonist Francisco Torres Linhart. It comes direct from the Linhart Blog.

Una mà  de contes is an online archive of an illustrated children’s television program from Catalan television.

Joan M. Mas writes:

The title is a wordplay sounding just like ‘mar de contes’ (a sea of tales; in catalan this expression ‘a sea of…’ means a lot of something), while the real title of the show, Mà de contes is ‘a hand of tales’ for the reason explained here: In each episode a children’s tale is narrated while on screen it is painted, drawn, modelled or collaged by different illustrators or artists. A feast for illustration lovers. The archive is organized by technique, title, artist… and you can see the whole episodes. If you feel like playing, there is even a story builder with texts and images.

While the site is not in English, you can easily turn on English audio and/or subtitles for each tale. Fun!