aphrodisiacs, comedy, hope, nourishment and intellect
by David Troupes from http://www.buttercupfestival.com/buttercupfestival.htm
Legend has it that Pablo Picasso was sketching in the park when a bold woman approached him.
“It’s you — Picasso, the great artist! Oh, you must sketch my portrait! I insist.”
So Picasso agreed to sketch her. After studying her for a moment, he used a single pencil stroke to create her portrait. He handed the women his work of art.
“It’s perfect!” she gushed. “You managed to capture my essence with one stroke, in one moment. Thank you! How much do I owe you?”
“Five thousand dollars,” the artist replied.
“B-b-but, what?” the woman sputtered. “How could you want so much money for this picture? It only took you a second to draw it!”
To which Picasso responded, “Madame, it took me my entire life.”
from an article by ellen Rohr, entitled “how to charge for art and design” at http://www.1099.com/c/ar/ta/HowToCharge_t042.html
“Hergé’s work has what Barthes calls a ‘vanishing point’, a spot in which it ’seems to be keeping in reserve some ultimate meaning, one it does not express’. It could be that this spot holds the ultimate truth of the Tintin books, their secret. Or it could equally turn out that this spot lies at what Barthes calls ‘the degree zero of meaning’; that what it holds in store is not the treasure of the unexpressed but, borrowing Barthes’ words agin, ‘the signifier of the inexpressable’.”
From Tintin and the Secret of Literature by Tom McCarthy. Granta, 2006 (p.29)
From the book of Kells at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_Book_of_Kells_pages
from Ben Samuels’ classic golden-age comic cover gallery at http://www.samuelsdesign.com/comics/
by Joshua Davis, flash genius, and curator of PRAYSTATION at http://www.joshuadavis.com/
by Shane Glines from http://www.shaneglines.net/
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By Siemon Allen Pictures & Words, 1998, Vita 98, Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg, installation detail, cut-up comics & text, correction fluid.
from XKCD, a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language by Randall Munroe at http://xkcd.com/256/
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