Aaron Draplin on Portland, Palin, Pizza, and…Design
The theme of last month’s San Diego AIGA Y Conference was “Spark.” But Aaron Draplin, the first speaker, had grander ambitions.
Harvey Kurtzman: Mid-century’s Mad Man of Comic Book Art Direction
It's exceptional for a comic book figure to be called “the spiritual father of postwar American satire and the godfather of late-20th-century alternative humor.” But that's exactly what Steven Heller stated in his recent review of the book The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics.