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pascal campion skip to main skip to sidebar wednesday october 18 2023 bernie fuchs bernie fuchs 1932 2009 not really sure what to say about him that would be different from anybody else s point of view the man was the man the legend and the stuff legends are made of the enfant terrible of illustration in the late 50 s all throughout the 60 s and till the slow death of print illustration in the 70 s i know illustration is not dead far from it but this format of magazine art the way it was done commissioned paid for the world that went with it is a piece of history now for better or for worse when i discovered the first image in this post i was blown away i was instantly charmed the longer i looked at it the longer i was mesmerized fuchs had started in the 50 s working in car ads in detroit the job was very specific there were strict rules someone usually did the car and another artist would do the characters the poses were clear clean behind the car it was all very staged all very efficient fuchs was probably drinking beer or something at the time and asked someone to hold it for him while he went about to completely dismantle this system going into the streets to capture everyday life placing people in front of the cars overall stepping all over the established codes of the time he was both admired for it and called a prima dona for it he didn t last in detroit moved to new york and started getting jobs for mc call and other well known magazines at the time the bigger leagues he was the kid who started taking jobs away from the older more established artists and he did it with a smile from what i read his work was new different it felt alive the characters weren t as stiff as they used to be in previous illustrations there was a looseness to the brush work everybody wanted to have him work on their campaigns and every illustrator wanted to be him i look at his work not as often as i used to when i was younger i look at it to remind myself that people can draw and paint like this can tell such strong stories in one images and can push themselves constantly to come up with new ideas new themes new compositions toward the later part of his career after being incredibly well established bernie started experimenting with new techniques new approaches this body of work is not often the one that people remember the most but i love seeing his brain at work having the courage to leave behind what is a sure success to try something new untested unproven knowing that it could very well be rejected is inspiring that is the other thing about bernie fuchs he was inspiring he still is posted by pascal at 10 01 am no comments tuesday june 13 2023 theodore pousin theodore poussin by frank le gall theodore poussin was one of these stories that appeared in spirou and right off the bat i was mesmerized by the art work the first page especially it was a building on a dark evening the trees had no leaves there were boats in the back and i could tell the ground was wet or felt wet because of the reflection of the building it had a very belgian tradition of being curvy lines rather than a straight edged rendition but something made me pose it felt solid there was a sense of space that caught my eye the writing was also inviting something about a person looking over the paperwork of boats coming from all over the world and dreaming of traveling to these places at that time in my life i felt stuck where i was high school days and that story was an invitation to dream travel i kept reading the story and it kept getting better it took me a minute but i realized what i was responding too was how the author would create interesting shots there was a panel of the main character walking on the boat and i felt there i wanted to be there it became a game for me to look for all the interesting shots in the story more than reading the actual story seeing how it was set up was fascinating because it was a big nose graphic novel doing very cinematic things with the storytelling ok this is adult me analyzing this at the time i don t think i had the words to articulate these thoughts i just saw cool shots eventually i read the books more for the way the story was told then the stories themselves i re read the books a few years ago and realized i remembered almost nothing of it it was a pleasant surprise because the stories are really good gosh i feel horrible saying this because as a storyteller i want people to respond to the stories as well as the art interesting that even as an adult with decades of experience in the industry i still get surprised by how i approach certain things theodore poussin is an adventure story that is filled with mood hot nights busy ports rainy ships and intrigue something i did really appreciate re reading the books is to see how the creator made the character evolve age mature through the books he is aware of the adventures he s had before and what it has done to him posted by pascal at 10 32 am no comments saturday june 10 2023 jacque tardi jacque tardi growing up in france mostly art was everywhere i was interested in graphic novels so i looked at everything i could not always understanding what i was looking at not always realizing the impact it had on me some of the books i liked a lot have left very little mark on me other books made a huge impact on me but it is only as an adult that i realized how much the work of jacque tardi is this second kind i would see his take on nestor burma in the pages of a suivre and never read them it was gray dark there was an inherent sadness seeping through the pages something about a world where people got the short end of the stick and knew about it tardi captured an essence of what french life was like away from the glamour of the rivera or the lights of the champs elyse this was not louis de funes it was all about small streets rainy weather cheap motels the other side of the tracks literally the number of images depicting industrial warehouse by train tracks around the paris area are innumerable in my mind s eye i never ever understood the stories i don t think my 12 year old brain was experienced enough to relate to the seemingly depressed mood permeating this world and why people did what they did because they always seemed sad in the end no matter what the outcome was but the artwork it was palpable the smell of rain the feeling of long cold winter sunday afternoons in a city the mood of the nights the smell of alcohol and cigarettes which every french kid knew since it was everywhere the smell of hard wood floor and worn out leather the scope of the relationships so human you could see it on the page the drawings were simple clear they were deliberate i didn t find them pretty but it was clear they were meant to be this way they wrote the feelings this is something i loved about tardi s work he didn t seem to care if he made pretty drawings or not they just needed to say something i collected everything i could find of his and barely read any i would make my own trips in his world it was that powerful much later tardi started doing books on world war 1 memories of his father who had served the french perspective paralleled with the german perspective just like his burma days there was nothing pretty about it it was gruesome cold and it felt real the people spoke the way people speak in the street they looked like real people they drank lived and die without pizzaz i find his later work to be some of his stronger works his art is visual writing it is not for everyone i understand this it is probably an acquired taste i didn t ask for but i love seeing his work and try to read watch everything he comes out with posted by pascal at 10 04 am no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom pascal campion followers about me pascal view my complete profile blog archive 2023 7 october 1 bernie fuchs june 4 may 2 2022 64 november 2 april 1 march 3 february 22 january 36 2021 362 december 17 november 30 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