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Nearly a decade into Jim Woodring's underground comix career, the self-taught artist put pen-to-paper in 1989 and birthed what would become ...
Author archives: Nick Curtis
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In the beginning, she sought him out, and doing so changed the course of both their destinies. At the time, Andrew Martin was already an acc...
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In 1953, blocky kanji lettering announced "An Atomic Kaiju Appears" on a Japanese film poster, this bold red tagline taking dominance over t...
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When your son's first word is "Kenner," then it may seem that he's fated for a career designing toys. But in the case of Nathan Hamill, the ...
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Masked in mystique, in a tradition purportedly undertaken as a tribute to the indigenous peoples who helped fugitive slaves escape through L...
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Radiating power from its erect stance, Allen Jones' fetishized and feminine statue Hatstand emblazoned itself upon the 651st issue of Bijuts...
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There's a breed of artist who, like stage magicians, craft wondrous works that seemingly make the impossible possible, that force their audi...
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Even before the stretched canvas rose to prominence in the 16th and 17th centuries, artists sought to challenge the normally-rectangular sha...
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Pondering aloud in her native Japanese, the young woman quizzically whispers, "A cat?" Having spied a streak of fur race into a dimly-lit co...