Once, I shared covers and back covers bylines with Breccia, Bilal, Eisner, Corben, Toppi, Gimenez, Jones, and many more of my idols and comic legends.

Here are some of the covers of the Spanish comic magazines "1984" and "Ilustracion + Comix Internacional", published by "Toutain Editor" in 70's and 80's.

 

"Milton Glaser: POP" in The New Yorker

A quote from the article, "How the Graphic Designer Milton Glaser Made America Cool Again" by Adam Gopnik in today’s The New Yorker.

 

'No art director’s work was more influential or instantly identifiable than that of Milton Glaser. The extent of that style, which adorned books and records and movies—and is revealed in a new anthology from Monacelli, courtesy of Steven Heller, Mirko Ilić, and Beth Kleber, titled simply “Milton Glaser: Pop”—is astounding. Glaser was famous as the co-founder and original design director of New York and as a creator of two images that helped define two decades. One was the 1966 poster of Bob Dylan that showed him with snakelike hair blossoming into a skein of rainbows. The other was the 1976 “INY” logo—which was commissioned by the State of New York but promptly adopted as a local symbol of the city, and, being keyed to the city’s unexpected revival, is the closest thing there has ever been to a logo that changed social history.'

 

'Of all the riches embedded in the Monacelli book, it may be the complete covers of the Signet Shakespeare, from around the same period as the Dylan poster, that are the most arresting. A central figure, usually enigmatically representative of the play’s action, appears in half-finished form, done in a charmingly elegant, linear style that recalls both Aubrey Beardsley and white-figure Greek vases; only a small patch of the drawing is in color, while the rest spins out like suggestive smoke. “Hamlet” is an agonized youth’s face, with a watching father’s head springing from his own and a barely suggested woman’s head—Ophelia?—alongside; “Julius Caesar,” memorably, is a tilting classical figure in profile, a zigzag of blue on a white implied toga to suggest greatness and a spot of pure red nearby to imply his stabbing. If you had no idea of what a play was about, none of these covers would tell you. Glaser relies on a general knowledge of the text—Hamlet is haunted, Julius Caesar is killed—and then suggests with his cryptic images that this story is more interesting and somehow more contemporary than one might have thought. The covers were less illustrations of the plays than they were invitations to read them.'

 

 

My A.C. 2020 (4) comic was published in this weeks The Nation Magazine. More of my A.C. 2020 comics you can see here, here and here.

Rolling Stone: The Illustrated Portraits

I just received a new book, Rolling Stone: The Illustrated Portraits.

"The book is a collection of five decades of portrait illustrations from the magazine's archives and with focus on more contemporary artists and issues, this stunning book collects more than 200 of the most iconic illustrations to have graced its pages--from portraits of major cultural figures (from Bob Dylan to Barack Obama, Oprah to Madonna) to depictions of key moments in recent history (from Woodstock to Trump's election). Some of the greatest names in art and design have defined the magazine's illustrated lexicon, from modern heroes like Milton Glaser and Ralph Steadman to subversive contemporary artists such as Christoph Niemann and Mark Ryden."

I am pleased that my portrait of Billy Corgan from The Smashing Pumpkins is included in the book.

Aretha Franklin by Milton Glaser

Recently, I acquired this Milton Glaser poster created for the November 1968 issue of the youth culture-focused Eye Magazine.

Eye Magazine only put out a total of 15 issues over its yearlong existence. The other artists featured on its poster inserts included Mick Jagger, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, and the Beatles.

The National Portrait Gallery acquired an copy in 2011. It comes with a set of original instructions for removing it from the magazine, aimed at the magazine’s teenage readership (“tear carefully along the perforated line”).

Aretha Franklin posed with her portrait in the National Portrait Gallery in 2015.

 

The Future of Immigration

In 2003, I created this illustration about "The Future of Immigration Policy" for Rolling Stone Magazine.

Unfortunately they thought it was too harsh and ultimately decided not to publish it. 

Boris Bucan Magazine Clip

Croatian poster design legend Boris Bucan sent me this clipping from Croatian magazine.
I don't know which magazine it is, but that is very sweet from him and the writer who mentioned me in the context of Bucan.

More about Bucan and his posters here.

Last Issue of Print Magazine

I just received the new and last issue of Print Magazine. Unfortunately, I am not in it. But thanks to the artwork of Debbie Millman, I'm on it! And in good company. My question is: if Print is dead, and this is the last issue, is my name on a tombstone?

Head to Toe: The Nude featured in Graphic Design in Vogue Italia

Below is a short piece on mine and Steven Heller's new book, Head to Toe: The Nude in Graphic Design published in the May 2018 issue of Vogue Italia. The book, which catalogues the manifold uses of the human figure in visual culture, is published by Rizzoli and is available now on Amazon.

PRINT Magazine Cover Archives 1940–2017

Print magazine just posted online 77 years of their covers. I was honored to create 2 of them, one in 1998 and one in 2012.

You can see all the covers here: https://goo.gl/922ZVe

Tadanori Yokoo in Neshan magazine

The leading Iranian graphic design magazine Neshan just published the essay I wrote about Tadanori Yokoo, which was originally published in IDEA, Japanese design magazine.

Demokrata for 200€

Browsing through antique bookshop websites I came across this Hungarian website and to my surprise found out that somebody used my art created in 1985 for the movie Red and Black on the cover of Demokrata, a samizdat political and cultural magazine published by AB Független in 1989.

AB Független was a semi-underground publisher established by the Democratic Opposition in Hungary to publish not merely political literature, but also literature that was banned by the Communist politics. At that time Hungary was a Communist country.

What is quite amazing, this Anti-communist pamphlet is selling for 200€ ($250).
The beauty of capitalism.

Tito In My Hands

I got myself this portrait of Tito, former President of Yugoslavia, which was originally drawn for September 1967 issue of Reader's Digest. Illustration was created by Anthony Gruerio.