Panorama!
My contribution to the funny pages of The San Francisco Panorama, McSweeney’s gigantic, miraculous one-day-only newspaper.
My contribution to the funny pages of The San Francisco Panorama, McSweeney’s gigantic, miraculous one-day-only newspaper.
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Yup, it’s the golden age of obsessive, niche online collections and the blogs devoted to them and I love it. Sad will be the day that I’ve just seen too many international Hobbit collections, creepy Santa Claus photo collections, and dirty scrimshaw collections to care anymore. In the meantime, here’s Letterheady, a blog devoted to interesting letterhead. Some examples:
One of my ex-drawing workshop students started a blog that is weird and awesome. Ladies and gentleman, I give you Taylor Bancroft:
Yeah, me too.
Also, Dana and I will be teaching this workshop again at the Portland Art Museum next fall. If you’re a teenager in the Portland area who likes to draw, you should apply. It’s fun and free. Visit our page on the museum website or our class blog for more info.
I’m drawing a map and made a file of nice maps to draw inspiration from. I was admiring the lettering on this one and realized it’s a map of Westchester County, New York – where I grew up. I guess the Tappanzee Bridge was named for a part of the Hudson once called the Tappan Sea?
And here’s a photo of me (in the middle) growing up there, 200 some odd years later. That’s my cute sister, Erica, on the right and our friend Lisa on the left: