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French history painter & teacher, was 21 December 1815.

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2021-12-21

🎨 Tommaso Italian Renaissance painter, was 21 December 1401.

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2021-12-21

And as it's Michael Moorcock's birthday, it seems only fair to post this piece did of me as Elric when we were at college. Isn't it great?

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2021-12-19

"For somehow not only at Christmas but all the long year through, the joy you give to others is the joy that comes back to you." John Greenleaf Whittier, Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery 🎂 born

♡ Feeling the spirit!

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2021-12-17

Paul César Helleu (17th Dec 1859 – 23rd Mar 1927). His portrait of Coco Chanel “La jolie modiste”, (1912).

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2021-12-17

"Colour is a power which directly influences the soul"
~ Wassily Kandinsky 1866

Composition 8 1923; Yellow, Red, Blue 1925; Black and Violet 1923; Transverse Line 1923

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2021-12-16

Happy Birthday Sir Jackanory! Illustrator extraordinaire for and so many more, our first Children's Laureate and lover of birds THE was 1932

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2021-12-16

Remembering the wonderful Kurt Schaffenberger, who looked exactly like a Kurt Schaffenberger drawing and had a line so slick it was practically made of oil. Here's a nice anecdote from Mark Evanier.

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2021-12-15

Writer & illustrator Alfred Bestall wrote & illustrated the stories from 1935-1965, taking over from original creator Mary Tourtel. The comic strip first appeared in in 1920, and in annuals since 1936.

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2021-12-14

Happy Birthday, Edward Munch! (12/12/1863)

For his fans, I recommend the graphic novel, (2013; published in English in 2016 by ) by Steffen Kverneland (with letters by Txabi Jones & translated from Norwegian by Francesca M Nichols)

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2021-12-13

"A work of art comes only from inside a human being."
Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter 🎂 born

👇 Melancholy 1893

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2021-12-12

Born on this day, the great Karl Edward Wagner (1945-1994).

Here's the Dark Harvest edition of Why Not You and I? with cover art by Ron Lindahn and Val Lakey Lindahn.

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2021-12-12



For Olivier Messiaen's birthday (#botd in 1908) - Anna Lapwood performs her splendid organ transcription of his "Vocalise-Etude"

by Jules Bastien-Lepage

https://t.co/LV1QfQjTrP

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2021-12-11

The magnificent Dan Spiegle. If you ever see any copies of his & Mark Evanier's Hollywood hero Crossfire, grab 'em. It's one of the great lost series.

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2021-12-11

“In a photograph, a person’s eyes tell much.

Sometimes they tell all...”

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

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2021-12-06

"On the surface, 'The Big Heat' (1953) by Fritz Lang (#BOTD) is about Bannion's fearless one-man struggle against a mob so entrenched that the police commissioner is a regular at Marvin's poker game.But if that were its real subject, it would be long, flat & dry"

--- Roger Ebert

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2021-12-05

Born on this day: Fritz Lang (1890-1976).

Here are some scenes from M (1931).

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2021-12-05

Born on this day in 1958, Terri Windling. Co-editor with Ellen Datlow of 16 'Year's Best Fantasy and Horror' anthologies, and numerous others.

Here's The Changeling. Not sure who the cover art is by, but it has a Jim Warren feel to it.

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2021-12-03

Born on this day: Gino D’Achille (1935-2017).

Here's his cover art for Michael Shea's The Colour Out of Time.

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2021-11-30