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Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner’s Spectrum 15: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art
Sometimes the best way to approach Spectrum or any of the other “art directors’ annuals” is to wander through and see what strikes one’s fancy. So, wander we will. One thing that gratified me about this year’s selections in Spectrum … Continue reading
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Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner’s Spectrum 13: The Best In Contemporary Fantastic Art
At first glance, this year’s edition of Spectrum, the thirteenth in the series, looked a little flat. I didn’t see any of the knock-me-down standouts that grabbed me last year. Let this be an object lesson in jumping to conclusions. … Continue reading
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Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner’s Spectrum 12: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art
I learned early in my career as an art reviewer to avoid group exhibitions, especially those with very large themes. I find many of the same problems in discussing the newest Spectrum: disparate visions, a wide range of approaches, and, … Continue reading
Garth Dahl’s Masks from Around the World: A Personal Collection
Masks occur in every human culture I’ve ever run across, and their purpose is always the same: disguise. In the theater of ancient Greece, the disguise served to submerge the actor in the persona of the god or hero he … Continue reading
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David Peterson’s The Art of The Mouse Guard: 2005 – 2015
Without doubt, the Mouse Guard series is one of the best illustrated graphic novel series I’ve ever had the pleasure to experience. It certainly ranks up with Bill Willingham’s Fables, Mike Mignola’s Hellboy and G. Willow Wilson’s Air for creating … Continue reading
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Brian Froud’s The Secret Sketchbooks of Brian Froud
I suppose there might be someone, somewhere, who has never heard of Brian Froud. He was already gaining a reputation as an illustrator of books for children when his distinctive vision was brought to a wider audience through his designs … Continue reading
Steven Brust’s The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars
Steven Brust’s The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars is a strangely deceptive novel. It seems, at first, fairly straightforward – a narrative about a group of artists trying to make it, interspersed with sections of a folk tale – … Continue reading
Cathy Fenner, Arnie Fenner, and Irene Gallo (eds.), r/evolution — The Art of Jon Foster
One thing that I’ve found a delight while reviewing for GMR is the chance to move into fields I’ve never been able to focus on much before, one of which is illustration, specifically the art of the fantastic. Given my … Continue reading
Jasmine Becket-Griffith’s Gothic Art Now
We seem to spawn subcultures at a dizzying rate these days, and those subcultures, as cultures tend to do, create art, music, fashion and lifestyles in their own image. As far as the goth culture goes, we’ve all seen the … Continue reading
Robert Adams’ Summer Nights
The American West has been a potently mythic icon in the American imagination ever since we figured out it was there. As it moved out of the Ohio River Valley and across the Mississippi and the Great Plains, artists no … Continue reading