Category Archives: Animation

Reader’s Manifesto

Posted on May 25, 2017 by Brian D. Butler
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Some Random Island In The Pacific Ocean

Posted on April 29, 2017 by Brian D. Butler
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More Than Polar Bears

Posted on April 10, 2017 by Brian D. Butler

 Berlin-based German illustrator Christoph Niemann has created a charming visual diary of a seafaring expedition to the Arctic for National Geographic, told as an interactive story with illustrations, animation, photos and videos along with handwritten text. North: An Illustrated Travelogue is a click-through … Continue reading →

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How To Design Book Covers

Posted on March 16, 2017 by Brian D. Butler

h/t Tom Gauld

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Manufacturing Consent

Posted on March 9, 2017 by Brian D. Butler

Published in 1988, Manufacturing Consent is a frighteningly relevant book in this time of media collusion in the take over of democractic governments and institutions by kleptocrats and neo-fascists. The book challenges the idea that the mainstream media acts as a check … Continue reading →

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Deconstructing Books

Posted on February 23, 2017 by Brian D. Butler

The wonderful short animated video below features the creation of a fantastic book sculpture by the British artist Kerry Miller. Even though it reveals her process, it preserves the magic of her incredible work.

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You have to read this book

Posted on February 22, 2017 by Brian D. Butler

h/t to the marvelous Spanish cartoonist Laura Pecheco  (and you really do need to read Station 11 by Emily St.John Mandel.

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Automat

Posted on February 13, 2017 by Brian D. Butler
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Drawn Together

Posted on January 12, 2017 by Brian D. Butler

Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Robert Crumb have been creating brilliant and transgressive comic books together and independently for more than four decades. The pioneers of the underground comic genre have been smashing taboos and busting boundaries with insightful, funny and decidedly … Continue reading →

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Choose Your Yule Log

Posted on December 24, 2016 by Brian D. Butler
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