Nice : an allegory of the RGB color model.

Previously on Skandalon

This is Niemann’s latest instalment published on his New York Times’ blog Abstract City :

“Christoph Niemann’s illustrations have appeared on the covers of The New Yorker, Newsweek, Wired, The New York Times Magazine and American Illustration. His work has won numerous awards from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Art Directors Club and American Illustration.”

Previously on Skandalon: Christoph Niemann, maps.

“Zachary Kanin (5’3), was the shortest ever President of the Harvard Lampoon. His cartoons and humor writing have appeared in The New Yorker, where he worked until recently. He is the author and illustrator of The Short Book, which is available in stores and online now. He has written for the children’s show Thumb Wrestling Federation, and was a contributing joke writer for Phil Angelides’ campaign for governor of California.” (The Huffington Post)

Kanin have a blog but it hasn’t been updated since June 30, 2008.

“All my favourite buildings in the Mile End neighbourhood of Montreal. Orginally commissioned by Drawn & Quarterly for their bookbags.”

Matt Forsythe is “an illustrator and comic-book artist from Montreal, Canada”. Visit his official website: www.comingupforair.net

About Roz Chast:

“Rosalind “Roz” Chast (born November 26, 1954) is an American cartoonist and a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker. She grew up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, the only child of an assistant principal and a high school teacher who subscribed to The New Yorker. Her earliest cartoons were published in Christopher Street and the The Village Voice. In 1978 The New Yorker accepted one of her cartoons and has since published more than 800. She also publishes cartoons in Scientific American and the Harvard Business Review. (wikipedia)

Jason Levesque is a “drawler, designer, do’er of stunts” from Norfolk, VA. USA. Check more of his illustrations, visit his blog.

Travis W. Simon “Cat Dog”

About Matt Boors:

“Matt Bors, 25, is a nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist with United Media. He began creating political cartoons in February 2003 for the student paper at The Art Institute Of Pittsburgh. After college, it moved to into alt weeklies like the Cleveland Free Times.His cartoons now appear in the Village Voice, Chico Beat, Brick Weekly, Seven Days, Funny Times, and various websites such as Cagle.com.” (more)

First spotted via Public Communication.

The New Yorker, Feb. 8, 2010, p. 53

Read an excerpt from the book (in French). Buy the book online. Check out David’s blog 10 Secondes Tigre.

“Beastness” is the contraction of “fitness” (in a biological sense) and “beast”. It’s the name David Jaclin gave to the evolution of the relationship’s economy (“business”) bonding humans and animals since the dawn of time to the present day.