"Garth" by Frank Bellamy

My recent acquisition, two originals of the comic Garth by Frank Bellamy. Two continuing episodes of the story were published in the Daily Mirror newspaper on June 11th and 12th, 1975.

"Cazador y presa" by Arturo Del Castillo

My latest acquisition—an original page from the comic Cazador y presa by Arturo Del Castillo. It's the last page of this comic.  

I already have two pages from his comic El Cobra in my collection. You can see the pages here and here.

 

"Up Anchor!" comic by Kreigh Collins

My recent acquisition is this quite large page of Up Anchor! comic by Kreigh Collins from 1970.

Kreigh Taylor Collins (1908 – 1974), born in Davenport, Iowa, was an American cartoonistbest known for the comic strip Kevin the Bold. In 1968, Collins began working on the comic strip Up Anchor!, a story in modern setting about sailing, loosely based on his own experiences of sailing. Up Anchor! was published as a Sunday comic strip until 1972.  

Here you can read and see more comics by Kreigh Collins.  

 This is not my first page of Kreigh Collins's comics. I already have a page of his comic Kevin the Bold, which you can see here. 

The last image shows how the comic looks in print.

 

 

"Where the Wild Lines Are"

I just received the catalogue for the exhibition Where the Wild Lines Are – Books and Illustrations for Children at Die Neue Sammlung (The Design Museum) in Munich.

This exhibition comprises illustrated children’s books from Die Neue Sammlung’s collection and is curated by Caroline Fuchs. The exhibition will be on display until January 26, 2025.

I am quite pleased to see that several children’s books I donated to the museum are included in both the exhibition and the catalogue, and I even received credit for them.

 

The PRINT Award for Milton Glaser: POP Book

On October 30th, I received an unexpected Fedex package. It was quite heavy.

When I started to open it, each step became more and more mysterious. The black wraparound, the golden box and when I opened the box, I found a heavy piece of marble nestled in silk cushioning, on top of which was a note on how to maintain it and a cleaning cloth. It turned out to be the PRINT Award for my book design of Milton Glaser: POP. In my long career, I've never received such a physically substantial award before.

The award weighs 6.8 pounds (2.9 kg) and measures 5 x 7.2 x 2 inches (13 x 18 x 5 cm).

Since I received it the day before Halloween and it was black, my first thought was that I could use it as a tombstone. But I am a positive guy and I thought, if I get a few more, maybe they could be the foundation of the Mirkokhamun pyramid or my new house.

Thank you PRINT Magazine for opening up the possibility of my future endeavours.

You can see the award-winning Milton Glaser: POP book design here.

 

 

"In Harm's Way" Poster by Saul Bass

Recently, I acquired this poster for the movie In Harm's Way by Otto Preminger from 1962.

 

I didn't acquire it only because it was designed by Saul Bass, rather, despite it being a story about U.S. Navy officers in 1941 in the Pacific Ocean, I find something very ominous about this image. Maybe because of professional deformation, I associate this image with something else.

My Posters at the Chengdu Academy of Fine Arts

I am happy to share that my posters Oedipus, My Husband, The Tin Drum, Uncle Vanya, and The Loser, created for the JDP-Yugoslav Drama Theater in Belgrade, Serbia, have been included in the Europe Theater Poster Design Exhibition.

The Europe Theater Poster Design Exhibition is part of the Visual Design Art Week at the Chengdu Academy of Fine Arts and the Sichuan Conservatory of Music in China. The exhibition opened on October 12th, 2024, coinciding with the opening ceremony of the C-IDEA Conference 2024 Chengdu.

I am grateful to the curator, Li Xu, and the co-curator, Ivan Mišić, for inviting me to be a part of this exhibition.

You can see more of my JDP posters here.