The Cartoonist

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

An Open Letter to Pipex.  Dear Pipex, I'm supposed to be on your 8MB MAX connection. I didn't know 'Max' stands for 'Mornings only', because I'm getting those exciting download speeds from you every day from 15:00 hours onwards until midnight. Let me put it bluntly: your service sucks bigtime. Yours sincerely, The Cartoonist 9:09:22 PM   This & That | |

Monday, January 29, 2007

A sensible Politician at last. The Blah! Party. 7:51:21 AM   London | |

Sunday, January 28, 2007

Finally finished with Scanning. All I have to do now is cleaning up around 160 scans. Now that's gonna be fun ... 7:01:18 AM   My Sketchbooks | |

Friday, January 26, 2007

Soon.  10:36:04 AM   London | |

The Modern World. You know you're living in the 21st Century when you're watching Arno Schmidt interviews from the 60s on your iPod. 9:08:08 AM   Cult | |

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Eating in Space. This photo and many more rather strange pictures can be found at Apollo to the Moon: Artifacts. Another weird link for you to enjoy. If the Apollo spacecraft cabin should become depressurized, the astronauts would have to live in their spacesuits and would not be able to eat solid foods. This Contingency Feeding System, carried on Apollo 11, would have allowed an astronaut to eat liquid foods through a small port of his helmet. 10:32:37 PM   This & That | |

New Business Cards. I think they're great. They will certainly get me lots of jobs. Yeah, right ... 2:43:45 PM   London, My Sketchbooks | |

Der Einsame der Zeit. 40 years of filming, adapting, legal problems, and editing the movie version of Perry Rhodan #50. Looks as if it's almost done now: the main website, trailer one, trailer two, teaser one, teaser two. A movie made by fans for fans — and it looks fabulous, believe me. No computers involved. Enjoy. Es ist ausdrücklich verboten aus dem Trailer Bilder herauszunehmen, diese auszudrucken sowie zu veröffentlichen. Vorführung des Trailers in der Öffentlichkeit nur mit meiner schriftlichen Genehmigung. Damn, I can't post any pictures. And here's Trailer 1 in proper English (subtitled). 2:03:56 PM   Cult | |

The Advertisement.  11:10:42 AM   Old Ads | |

Franz. Very, very strange drawings. His livejournal is here. Comes more or less via vvork. 7:48:29 AM   Art & Advertising | |

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Fab. Lew Stringer's Blimey! It's another blog about comics! Journey into the Comics Time Vortex to see comics from the past, present, and future! 9:37:34 PM   Art & Advertising, Cult | |

Smugglers' Britain. Smuggling Smugglers. Explore the fascinating story of smuggling in 18th and 19th century Britain, when high taxes led to an dramatic increase in illegal imports. As the "free trade" grew, smugglers openly landed contraband in full view of the customs authorities: columns of heavily-armed thugs protected the cargoes. 9:18:09 PM   This & That | |

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

The MacGuyver Multitool. Found at Neatorama. 2:37:35 PM   This & That | |

Monday, January 22, 2007

Belgian Humour. Cartoons by Mario. Mega-weird. 6:53:10 PM   This & That | |

Ephemera. Exploring the world of old paper. Very nice. 6:06:06 AM   Blogs | |

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Basil Says. Depending on the weather, a brain can have only as little as 648kb of memory. 5:47:54 PM   Basil Says | |

Saturday, January 20, 2007

European Son to Delmore Schwartz. They certainly have a great portfolio of artists at the Belgravia Gallery. But their prices are a bit steep. The Velvets cover below isn't even the first edition. Anyway, I wish I was rich. 6:17:33 PM   Art & Advertising, Cult | |

Friday, January 19, 2007

At last, some proper Art. Works by Prince Charles, HRH The Prince of Wales. Signed and framed, and available from the Belgravia Gallery. This pictures describes the flow and rhythm of a Scottish landscape. The trees and remnants of snow provide accents of colour along the sweeping land forms. His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has emphasised with gestural brushwork the energetic character of the landscape as it comes to life in the spring. 8:43:05 PM   London | |

Thursday, January 18, 2007

Unbelievable. The Circusmuseum in Holland. Again, many thanks to Peter. 7:45:13 PM   Cult | |

Punk Rock in Germany. Hundreds of photos. Many thanks to Peter for the link. 7:28:34 PM   Cult | |

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Basil Says. Always make sure your planet rotates in the right direction. 8:28:23 PM   Basil Says | |

Paintings by Wolf. Soup. 8:26:52 PM   Paintings by Wolf | |

Monday, January 15, 2007

VW, VW, VW. This must be the biggest Volkswagen archive in the world: literature, press photos, postcards, artwork, ads. Amazing. Via Coudal. 4:01:34 PM   Cult | |

Sunday, January 14, 2007

Still Life with Cat and Arumbaya Fetish.  11:40:11 PM   This & That | |

Ah. I've quickly warholized Basil. The old-fashioned fellow doesn't like it one bit. Many thanks to Fritz for the idea. 2:53:26 PM   This & That | |

Audience in Motion.  10:35:32 AM   This & That | |

Saturday, January 13, 2007

The Advertisement. Söhnlein brillant from 1966. Good old GGK. 1:16:10 PM   Liebe GGK, Old Ads | |

Friday, January 12, 2007

Tracks on 3 Levels. Alan Murray-Rust, Photos. 5:24:18 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Comic Covers. Lots of Spirou. And Mecki. 1:27:49 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Thursday, January 11, 2007

At Last. The Dodos are back! 8:38:21 PM   Blogs | |

I wish to Register a Complaint. It's dead. Via Blairwatch. 6:11:36 PM   This & That | |

Blood Diamonds. Claudio von Planta's nomadic life. 7:36:01 AM   Blogs | |

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Basil Says. In a mirror you always appear the wrong way round, except when surfing between dimensions. 5:47:38 PM   Basil Says | |

Two Art Directors in London. Monsieur Emonts-Pohl and Herr Zeigermann. 3:55:48 PM   Liebe GGK, London | |

Always good for a Laugh. Rattelschneck. 9:00:44 AM   Art & Advertising | |

How to get a Job in Advertising. Not. Read this exchange of e-mails and be amazed. Be very amazed. 8:35:20 AM   Art & Advertising | |

Sunday, January 7, 2007

The Coin Trick. Oh my goodness me! How? Via goatBlog. 7:23:47 PM   This & That | |

Still massive. St. Paul's Cathedral. 5:46:01 PM   London | |

Webcam. Before. After. Not quite sure what's better, but Basil is still watching me from behind. That's consistency. 12:55:11 AM   This & That | |

Saturday, January 6, 2007

Basil Says. When building a treehouse, always ask Mr. or Mrs. Tree for permission first. 5:22:03 PM   Basil Says | |

Housekeeping. In case someone's still interested: I've added a few more pics to the Vibrators set. Mind you, I took 200 pics at the gig and could publish them all. You should be happy there are only around 40 of them online. 2:00:11 PM   This & That | |

From my Sketchbooks. I was in Brussels when it happened. These are some of the sketches I did in the evening while trying to calm down. 12:20:21 PM   My Sketchbooks | |

Fashion 2007.  11:18:52 AM   This & That | |

Friday, January 5, 2007

Monsters and Such. Basil really likes Gawkagogo. Thanks go to Wolf for the link. 8:49:47 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Thursday, January 4, 2007

Nicholas Hellen, Acting News Editor of the Sunday Times. So that's how Sunday Times editors behave? Doesn't speak for the paper, does it? Oh well, it's Murdoch, how could I forget... We propose to publish the fact that you are 33 and live in [my address] -London, and that your mother, [her name], is a [her address] -based [her profession]. The article includes extracts from your book and blog, relevant to your career in the film industry. We also have a picture of you, taken outside your flat. 9:03:28 PM   London | |

Bright Grey Colours. Another one of my Cambridge pics. 6:31:17 PM   This & That | |

Gro[fl]e Freiheit live. The late Stefan Hentschel in Hamburg St. Pauli [link]. Owtch. 3:53:44 PM   This & That | |

He's Fab. Will Murai, illustrator. Via Bibi's Box - Bibi, many thanks for your card, it's lovely! 9:51:49 AM   Art & Advertising | |

Wednesday, January 3, 2007

Basil Says. Always read in the dark, so your brain doesn't have to compute all those alphabetic characters. 3:56:43 PM   Basil Says | |

Karl Kraus. I've still got the old print-edition from zweitausendeins, but "Die Fackel" is now available online (You'll need to register, but it's free), which I think is fantastic. Here's the press release. "Die Fackel" ("The Torch") was published in Vienna from April 1899 to February 1936 and was almost entirely self-authored by the satirist Karl Kraus who used language and press criticism to attack society and culture. Karl Kraus was born on 28 April 1874 in Jic (ín (Bohemia) and died on 12 June 1936 in Vienna. The work of Karl Kraus, in its many forms and variations, of which the journal is the core, can be regarded as one of the most important, although almost untranslatable contributions to world literature. It is a source for the history of the time, for its language and its transgressions. Karl Kraus in his own typical and idiosyncratic manner dealt with the themes of journalism and war, of sex and crime, of politics and corruption, of literature and lying. The influential journal "Die Fackel" comprises in literally thousands of texts an enormous thematic variety in a great number of different text types, such as essays, notes, commentaries, aphorisms, poems, drama and other literary expressions. 8:30:53 AM   Literature | |

Tuesday, January 2, 2007

Making Progress. Antarktis Expedition 1931/32: almost done, just a few more pages to scan. It'll probably take me another month cleaning up the scans, but then the book should be ready to go. 12:16:26 PM   Literature, My Sketchbooks | |

Monday, January 1, 2007

Happy New Year Everyone. Let's start the new year with some old sketches of mine. 11:55:57 AM   My Sketchbooks | |