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Rojankovsky Fairy Tales

Rojankovsky combines just plain great drawing with highly stylized compositional techniques.I love the juxtaposition of his rough-hewn and ogreish Russian human characters with the highly intellectual compositions, hierarchy and stylized forms.MORE CLASSIC ILLUSTRATORS

Carlos Nine

JoJo turned me on to a cartoonist I didn't know about. Carlos Nine combines illustration and cartoon skills into one fantastic style.I'm hoping Jojo will scan the pages Nine drew with Popeye and Olive for us. You'll die!I think you can buy Nine's comic, Meurtres et Chatiments here, but I'm not sure how:http://www.stuartngbooks.com/preview_nine_meurtres.htmlhttp://ronniedelcarmen.blogspot.com/2007

Illustration and Cartooning

It's hard to believe how high the standards in popular arts were just a few decades ago.Top Tier CartooningGreat IllustrationSomeone Who Can Do BothA Hilarious CombinationGreat Cartooning, Draftsmanship and Design CombinedThese all came from one generous blogger.http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/

Larry MacDougall

Here's some excellent "illustrative art" to contrast with all the great cartoony art I admire.I don't know who this is exactly. I just stumbled on his work through links at commenters' blogs.I love his compositions, his poses, his design sense - and especially his trees. He has a nice combination of style and observation.I'd say this is draftsmanship on a much higher level than what most