Comics+Literature : Proust

Marcel Proust (July 10, 1871 – November 18, 1922) was a French novelist, essayist, and critic, best known as the author of À la recherche du temps perdu (in English, In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past), a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction published in seven parts from 1913 to 1927.
In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (French: À la recherche du temps perdu) is a semi-autobiographical novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust. His most prominent work, it is popularly known for its extended length and the notion of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the "episode of the madeleine"

Remembrance of Things Past: Combray (Remembrance of Things Past (Graphic Novels)) adapted by Stephane Heuet. NBM Publishing Company (7 Jun 2001)

Comics+Architecture: Crepax / Le Corbusier

Guido Crepax (born Guido Crepas, Milan, July 15, 1933 - July 31, 2003) was an Italian comics artist, who deeply influenced the European adult comics world in the second half of 20th century. He is most famous for his character Valentina
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, who chose to be known as Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965), was a Swiss-born architect, designer, urbanist, writer and also painter, who is famous for his contributions to what now is called Modern Architecture.

la capilla Ronchamp (1954) de Le Corbusier como estadio de Komyatan en Valentina (Neutron) de Crepax 1966

Informally known as Ronchamp, the chapel of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp (French: Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut de Ronchamp), France completed in 1954 is considered one of the finest examples of architecture by the late French/Swiss architect Le Corbusier and one of the most important and successful examples of religious architecture in the 20th century

Comics+Architecture: Pellaert / Wright

Guy Peellaert (1934, Belgium) first practiced his drawing skills as a commercial designer. He made his first comic, 'Jodelle ', in 1966. He was one of the very first comic artists to process pop-art influences in his stories, and one of the first French comic artists to made erotic comics. In late 1966, 'Pravda la Survireuse' appeared, the second and last of his real comic efforts. At the end of the sixties and the start of the seventies, a couple of his experimental albums appeared: 'Carashi!' (1969), which consisted of redesigned photos, and 'Bye, bye, bye Baby, bye, bye' (1973), which used a hyper-realistic style. He then disappeared from the comic world to work in theater and television.
Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer, educator, and philosopher who designed more than 1,000 projects, of which more than 500 resulted in completed works.

El Guggenheim de F.L.Wright com bomba de Gasolina y Motel en Jodelle de G.Peellaert

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, founded in 1937, is a modern art museum located on the Upper East Side in New York City. It is the best-known of several museums owned and/or operated by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and is often called simply The Guggenheim. It is one of the best-known museums in New York City. ... It moved to its present location, at the corners of 89th Street and Fifth Avenue (overlooking Central Park), in 1959, when Frank Lloyd Wright's design for the site was completed.

Comics+Advertising: Snoopy/MetLife

Snoopy is a fictional character in the long-running comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. He is Charlie Brown's pet beagle. Wiki®
MetLife, Inc. is the holding corporation for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company or MetLife for short. The firm was founded on March 24, 1868. For most of its life the company was a mutual organization, but it went public in 2000. Wiki®

Snoopy is the mascot of MetLife since its name change in the 1980s.

Comics+Fashion: Snoopy/fashion show

Snoopy is a fictional character in the long-running comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz.
Some of Snoopy's biggest fans and the biggest names in fashion, including Isaac Mizrahi, Betsey Johnson, Heatherette, and Pamella Roland to name a few, are teaming up with MetLife to present Snoopy's first-ever group designer fashion show at New York's Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. Each designer, inspired by their favorite Peanuts character, will create a unique couture runway outfit.
Following the MetLife Snoopy in Fashion Show, Peanuts fans and fashionistas alike will have a chance to bid on the designers' unique runway creations in a special eBay auction benefiting Dress for Success.

designer: Agatha Ruiz de la Prada

Comics+Literature: ABC Darius

ABC Darius. artista portugues

Typography Comics

Now this is certainly a challenge. How do you get type/letters to interact with each other and make it funny? An enterprising designer from Portugal was apparently up to the task and has a whole lot of them posted , Webctionary (how do your pronounce that with the 'c'?). Simplicity is key, that is what makes comic strips such a hard medium to creat in.

Comics+Design: Crepax/Ennezero

Guido Crepax (born Guido Crepas, Milan, July 15, 1933 - July 31, 2003) was an Italian comics artist, who deeply influenced the European adult comics world in the second half of 20th century
Ennezero fabricante de muebles italiano.

This piece of furniture features the artwork of graphic artist Guido Crepax (1933-2003), who was hugely influential in the development of European comic art in the second half of the 20th century. His most famous storyline, featuring the character 'Valentina', was created in 1965. This series was very much in the spirit of the 60s, incorporating eroticism, and psychedelic, and dream-like storylines. In Crepax's work, many references are made to the works of 20th century 'Avant-Garde' artists, such as Magritte, Duchamp, Man Ray, Mondrian, and Warhol

designer: Giuseppe Canevese. design year:2004.  manufacturer: Ennezero, Italy

Comics+Stamps: McDonnell/Mutts stamps

Here's a collection of messages from the heart...and from Patrick McDonnell, creator of "Mutts." Use this postage to send your heartfelt sentiments about peace and love for all animals, about the importance of adopting an animal companion (and keeping pets for a lifetime), and a gentle reminder about the importance of spaying/neutering pets--all featuring the familiar and beloved "Mutts" characters. For more about Patrick and "Mutts," visit muttscomics.com
http://www.zazzle.com/mutts_animal_friendly_postage-172734516523309634

Comics•Movie: Flash Gordon

Flash Gordon aka Gordon Ferrao is the hero of a science fiction comic strip originally drawn by Alex Raymond, which was first published on January 7, 1934. The strip, created to compete with the already established Buck Rogers adventure strip, has since surpassed Buck Rogers for longevity.

Flash Gordon is a 1980 science fiction film, based on the eponymous comic strip character Flash Gordon. The film was directed by Mike Hodges and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. It stars Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Topol, Max von Sydow, Timothy Dalton and Ornella Muti. The screenplay was written by Michael Allin (of Enter the Dragon fame) and Lorenzo Semple Jr. It intentionally uses a camp style similar to the 1960s TV series Batman (for which Semple had written many episodes) in an attempt to appeal to fans of the original comics and serial films.

Comics+Business: Tintin/Loch Lomond Whisky

The Adventures of Tintin (French: Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of comic books created by Belgian artist Herge.

Captain Archibald Haddock is a character in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin.  He is Tintin's best friend, a seafaring captain in the Merchant Navy or Merchant Marine. Haddock was initially depicted as a weak and alcoholic character...

The Loch Lomond Single Malt is a Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky produced by the Loch Lomond Distillery in Alexandria, Scotland, near Loch Lomond.  In the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin, Loch Lomond has been known to be a favourite whisky brand of Captain Haddock, as well as of Tintin's loyal dog Snowy.  Wiki®

Comics+Music: Tintin/Faust Opera

The Adventures of Tintin (French: Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of comic books created by Belgian artist Hergé
The Castafiore Emerald (French: Les Bijoux de la Castafiore) is one of a series of classic comic-strip albums,

Bianca Castafiore, the Milanese Nightingale, was a recurring character in The Adventures of Tintin: the opera diva first appeared in King Ottokar's Sceptre.

The song sung by the Castafiore, The Jewel Song, is the same song sung by Marguerite in Gounod's opera, Faust. We are led to believe that Castafiore is a world-class performer, who would presumably have a large repertoire of material ... and yet, throughout all the Tintin adventures in which she appears, whenever Bianca Castafiore performs in any context, it is invariably the Jewel Song which she sings.

Gounod (1818–1893) was a French composer, best known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Roméo et Juliette.

Faust is an opera in five acts based on Goethe's Faust.
Goethe ( 1749–1832) was a German writer.

Comics+Advertising: Crepax/Shell

Guido Crepax (1933 - 2003) was an Italian comics artist, who deeply influenced the European adult comics world in the second half of 20th century. He is most famous for his character Valentina
In 1957 he became renowned for his advertisement campaign for the Shell Oil Company in Italy, which received a Gold Palm for advertisement
Shell Oil Company is the United States-based affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell, a multinational oil company of Anglo Dutch origins, which is amongst the largest oil companies in the world.  Wiki®

 

Comics+Music: Crapax/Armstrong coverLP

Guido Crepax (1933 - 2003) was an Italian comics artist, who deeply influenced the European adult comics world in the second half of 20th century. He is most famous for his character Valentina, created in 1965 and very representative of the spirit of the sixties
Crepax began to work as a graphic artist and an advertisement illustrator while still studying architecture (he degreed in 1958), producing posters as well as covers for magazines (including the Italian edition of Galaxy), books and LPs. The latter were mainly for classical music and jazz, including Gerry Mulligan, Fats Waller, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Italian Jazz Stars, but also for more popular works like 'Nel blu dipinto di blu by Domenico Modugno.

Louis Armstrong and his Hit Five "Rendezvous at the sunset café" 1956 firmata "g.crepax-'53

Comics+Design: Dilbert/IDEO cubicle desk

Dilbert  is an American comic strip written and drawn by Scott Adams. Dilbert is known for its satirical humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office, featuring the engineer Dilbert as the title character.
To demonstrate what can be achieved with the most mundane objects if planned correctly and imaginatively, Adams has worked with companies to develop “dream” products for Dilbert and company. In 2001, he collaborated with design company IDEO to come up with the “perfect cubicle”, a fitting creation since many of the Dilbert strips make fun of the standard cubicle desk and the environment it creates. The result was both whimsical and practical. Wiki®
IDEO is a design consultancy based in Palo Alto, California,[1] with other offices in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Boston, London, Munich and Shanghai. The company helps design products, services, environments, and digital experiences.

Comics+Music: Tintin/The Thompson Twins

The Adventures of Tintin (French: Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of comic books created by Belgian artist Hergé
The Thompson Twins were a British Pop group. The band formed in April 1977, and disbanded in May 1993. They achieved considerable popularity in the mid-1980s, scoring a string of hits in the UK, the U.S. and around the globe. 

The band was named after the two bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson in Hergé's comic strip, The Adventures of Tintin.

Comics+Art: Swarte/dutch stamps

Joost Swarte (born 1947) is a Dutch comic artist and graphical designer. He is best known for his ligne claire or clear line style of drawing, and in fact coined the term
The rather excellent Moors Magazine, a Dutch webzine about stuff that its founder is interested in (a bit like the Ephemerist, I guess), has high quality scans of the magnificent Children’s stamps that Joost Swarte did in 1993. I particularly liked them because Swarte used a comic book language to spread their “story” beyond the confines of the stamps themselves. It looked as if somebody had torn fragments from existing comic books and cut them down to stamp size. They also echoed the narrative device used in one of my all time favorite comics, “Kinderen baas”, by having children and adults switch roles. Brilliant stuff !

http://www.sparehed.com/tag/joost-swarte/®

Comics+Architecture: Swarte/Toneelschuur

Joost Swarte (1947, Heemstede) is a Dutch comic artist and graphical designer. He is best known for his ligne claire or clear line style of drawing, and in fact coined the term.
Apart from comics and graphic design Joost Swarte also designed furniture, leaded and stained glass windows, murals and other objects. For his hometown Haarlem he even designed a theatre building (De Toneelschuur) that was built in cooperation with Mecanoo Architects.  wiki

The new design of the building was made by Joost Swarte, a Dutch cartoonist, in 1996. It was the first time in the Netherlands that a building was designed by a cartoonist. Joost Swarte was assisted by Mecanoo, an architecture bureau.

Comics+Movies: Modesty Blaise/Tarantino

Modesty Blaise is the title of an action-adventure/spy fiction novel by Peter O'Donnell which was first published in 1965, featuring the character Modesty Blaise which O'Donnell had created for a comic strip in 1963

 Modesty Blaise

Cover of the first Modesty Blaise American edition by Doubleday, a rendition of which was featured in the film, Pulp Fiction. Art by Jim Holdaway

Quentin Tarantino (born 1963) is an Academy Award- and Palme d'Or-winning American film director, screenwriter and actor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an indie filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines and stylized violence

Vincent (JohnTravolta) reads Modesty Blaise in the final scene

The American first edition by Doubleday (illustrated at left) was featured prominently in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction (the hit man played by John Travolta is shown reading the book). Reportedly the director used a mock-up of the book for filming, rather than an actual copy. Tarantino has stated his interest in directing a Modesty Blaise film on several occasions, but to date the closest he's gotten was lending his name to a 2003 made-for-video production, Quentin Tarantino Presents: My Name Is Modesty. wiki®

Comics+Movies: Crepax/Brooks

Guido Crepax (1933 -2003) was an Italian comics artist, who deeply influenced the European adult comics world in the second half of 20th century. He is most famous for his character Valentina, created in 1965 and very representative of the spirit of the sixties
Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985) was an American dancer, showgirl, and silent film actress. She became, by the end of her life, a writer and critic of the silent film era.   Wiki®
Valentina

Valentina, inspired by the silent film actress Louise Brooks

Comics+Comercio: Crepax/Hasselblad

Victor Hasselblad AB is a Swedish manufacturer of medium-format cameras and photographic equipment based in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Guido Crepax (1933-2003) was an Italian comics artist, who deeply influenced the European adult comics world in the second half of 20th century. He is most famous for his character Valentina
Valentina

Valentina with her Hasselblad camera

Comics+Sports: Manara/Rossi

Milo Manara, (born 1945) is an Italian comic book creator (writer and artist), best known for his erotic approach to the medium.
Valentino Rossi (born 1979) is an Italian professional motorcycle racer and multiple MotoGP World Champion. He is one of the most successful motorcycle racers of all time, with 7 Grand Prix World Championships to his name.

In connection with their joint project Quarantasei, in July 2006, Manara designed a helmet for Moto GP rider Valentino Rossi, specifically made for the Italian GP in Mugello.

 

Manara

Rossi declared “ He has drawn some kind of a mythical history of my life, in cartoons, with some of my heroes such as Steve McQueen, Enzo Ferrari, Jim Morrison, and other characters such as my dog Guido, the chicken Osvaldo and a lot of beautiful women! I really like Milo...he's a person that I have admired for a long time."

AGV Helmets Full Face Ti-Tech - Rossi Mugello Helmet Replica LTD Edition

Comics+Movies: Manara/Fellini

Milo Manara, (born 1945) is an Italian comic book creator (writer and artist), best known for his erotic approach to the medium.
Federico Fellini, (1920–1993) was an Italian film director. Known for a distinct style which meshes fantasy and baroque images, he is considered as one of the most influential and widely revered film-makers of the 20th century.
In 1991 Fellini's graphic novel Trip to Tulum was translated into English by Stefano Gaudiano and published in the magazine Crisis with artwork by Milo Manara.    Wiki®

storyboard bajo las indicaciones de Fellini

"El viaje de G. Mastorna. llamado Fernet sigue siendo una pelicula, sólo que en comics.  Los lápices , tintas chinas y las medias tintas y los lapices del amigo Manara son el equivalente de las escenografías, de los trajes , de las máscaras de los actores, del mobiliario y de las luces con los que cuento en mis peliculas " Fellini 1992 en Fellini & Manara.  El viaje fe G Mastorna Ed.B 1996

In 1966, after a terrifying nightmare, the Italian director Fellini decided to abandon the making of a film called The Journey of G. Mastorna . Fellini's memory of that movie serves as the inspiration for artist Manara's transformation of the director's failed screenplay into a fantastic journey to a land of mystery and ancient wisdom. A beautiful woman fallsp.59 into a pond chasing Fellini's windblown hat. Under the water's surface is an eerie world of preserved shipwrecks and planewrecks, p.60 a resting place for ghostly references to Fellini's films. Inside a submerged seaweed-encrusted 747 the woman is astonished to find Fellini himself.P.64 He sends her off with a very handsomely drawn Marcello Mastroianni--Fellini's alter ego--to make a movie of unknown content. They stop in Los Angeles p.68 and finally reach a grand hotel on the Mexican coast where magical transformations abound. Fellini and Manara have brought the dreamlike beauty of Fellini's cinematography to the comics medium. A consummate linear draftsman, Manara's deft portraits of Fellini and Mastroianni are complemented by his dazzling imaginary architecture, his characteristic lyrical eroticism and the playfully self-referential exchanges between Fellini and the characters in his story. This unusual and engaging encounter between two exceptional artists is in color and includes short essays by Fellini and Manara. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. Amazon®

Comics+Art: US SuperHeroes stamps

2006 US stamps: DC Comics Super Heroes