Author Archives: caitlinburke

Wouldn’t It Be Fun to Shoot Horses with Big Hair?

I generally think of Mike Mitchell as the creator of the stricken ice cream cone, having tasted itself, wailing “MY GOD, I’M DELICIOUS!!!”

But there is so very much more. Batman, Mickey Mouse, Mario. And a variety of birds and skulls. Go there.

Movie art by Justin Reed – sometimes montages from single films, sometimes multiple films are referenced in one frame.

Tom Gauld is just wonderful. He produces art for the Guardian Saturday Review letters page, among other things. If I wanted to show you even a small cross-section of what I love of his, I’d just be reproducing his gallery, so you might as well go to his Flickr stream or his Cabanon Press site (a joint venture with Simone Lia). (Simone Lia is also wonderful and has her own site.)

Books, games, prints, and original art are available for sale in Comics Store at the Cabanon Press website. (And don’t miss Simone Lia’s site.)

Japanese artist (now based in France) Hina Aoyama makes elaborate paper cuttings that recall lace. This is a relatively simple example:

Half-way through Thing-a-day, I made Mr Bun an appliqué quilt based on the cover of a favorite children’s book, Frederick. He was still preoccupied with the cat chaise, complete with velvet pillow, so the quilt didn’t get much use.

Lately, however, it has acquired pride of place in his rotation: