One last hand lettered hurrah

Sam Weber:

Handlettering discoveries

Two new (to me) discoveries in elegant hand lettering:

Mary Kate McDevitt

Mary Kate McDevitt (Thanks, Sam!)

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Steve Simpson (Thanks, Behance!)

Illustration Process: Thumbnails > Roughs > Finished work

Penelope Dullaghan

Mike Laughead

Edel Rodriguez (plus) (plus)

Hand Drawn Type

When words have lives of their own. When they say more than they say. Where visual and verbal languages melt into one another.

Grady McFerrin

Ray Fenwick

John Hendrix

Kate Bingaman Burt

and more.

and more.

and more.

Quentin Blake: Illustration of a hospital

Deep thinking about comics

Scott McCloud on Understanding Comics from Jared Hester on Vimeo.


Daniel Clowes
Marjane Satrapi
Art Spiegelman

...for more history....

Timeline (with slideshow) of children's books

All the way back... a written history of the idea of books for children.

Jesse Willcox Smith "Water Babies" 1916