An interesting sketchbook project instigated by IGI member Steve Doogan is continuing to make its merry way through the vagaries of the Irish postal service (only two lost so far!) as we hit 2008. We had a chat with Steve about his project…
Children’s Book Illustrator, PJ Lynch, has launched a new website, www.PJLynchGallery.com
Varoom – the journal of illustration and made images published by the Association of Illustrators three times a year. Varoom 05, 90 pages, available in specialist bookshops and assorted news stands in the UK, Europe, USA and Canada, retail price per issue £12/$25/€20, subscription (3 issues) £30/$70/€55.
To subscribe or order back issues online please visit our website www.varoom-mag.com For further information please contact Silvia Baumgart on 020 7324 7224 or email info@varoom-mag.com
SCAMP’s roving reporter, Mario Sughi, has been out and about on the streets of Dublin again.
The Cervantes Institute, just outside Trinity College, is running (8 November – 18 December) a very interesting exhibition of graphic works of Pablo Picasso, very appropriately entitled La Multiplicidad del Vertice [The multiplicity of the vertex]. The exhibition is organised on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the birth of the artist by the Cervantes Institute in collaboration with the Museum Extremneho Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporanea (MEIAC) and la Junta de Extremadura.
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What I love about Christmas is that it’s the one period of the year when I don’t have to feel guilty spending all my time browsing in book shops or online through book seller’s websites. I can pretend I’m buying presents for other people, it’s great! I love buying books and sometimes I read them too (although mostly they are books about illustration and design so it’s for the images).
Here are a few I’d recommend getting your hands on with your Christmas book vouchers…
Bob Byrne is “Ireland’s answer to Robert Crumb” (not my words, the words of the peerless Judge Dredd Megazine). This week he has another strip in the long lasting and historically/culturally important 2000ad. His Twisted Tales are a semi regular slot, are all told silent in self contained episodes. At least have a browse in the shop you don’t have to buy it….
The NY Times reports that Wikipedia, the popular collaborative online encyclopedia which traditionally doesn’t pay for contributions, is to change this ruling and pay illustrators for their work ($40), in a bid to compete with the Encyclopedia Britannica. Admittedly not a huge amount, but it does demonstrate how illustration is perceived to add value to an online publication as much as a print one (if not adding much value to the illustrators struggling bank balance).
I have noticed that many print publications that are making more and more of a presence online are losing the integration with editorial illustration that had in their print versions.
Christmas is a busy season time of the year for Irish illustrators. And as clients go into their annual panic “gawd, what are we going to do for a blooming card?”. SCAMP offers you a selection of festive talent to tend to your every whim. Thanks to (in order of appearance) Kevin McSherry, PJ Lynch, Brian Gallagher, Fiona O’Donnell, Donough O’Malley, Chris Judge, Steve Simpson, Tatyana Feeney, Ron Wilson, John Conway, Nicola Sedgwick, Karen Nolan, BrenB, Joven Kerekes & Mario Sughi.
Merry Christmas
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Have you signed up for Facebook yet? Have you uploaded some of your illustrations into your picture gallery? Well, you better be careful, as this essay by Illustration Agent Anna Goodson outlines. While it offers a great way of reconnecting with old friends and networking with like-minded people there is some devil in the details. Thanks to Anna and Stephen Ledwidge for passing this on. Read on if you dare…
