• Graphic Arts
• Archives and Documents
• Art history of (reportage) drawing
• Comics & sequential arts
• Automatism & mediumism
• Printing Culture
• Resources
• Artists' pages
• Illustrated newspapers
• War artists

Graphic Arts

• Graphic Arts Division, Princeton University

  This site includes posts for new acquisitions, events, notable holdings, and other information on the Graphic Arts Collection within the department of Rare Books and Special Collections.

  http://graphicarts.princeton.edu/

• THE DRAWING ROOM

  is a London bases non-profit making organization that explores ideas around contemporary drawing and makes them visible in the public domain.

  https://drawingroom.org.uk/

• Grands Reporters

  An interesting drawing section of this French site, which is related to all kinds of topical reportage.

  http://www.grands-reporters.com/-DESSINS-.html

• Cartoon Movement

  The Cartoon Movement is a community of international editorial cartoonists and fans of political satire, which provides a website with continuously updated cartoons and graphic novels.

  http://www.cartoonmovement.com/

• Reportager

  Reportager is a research group and programme at the School of Creative Arts, Univeristy of the West of England. Reportager exists in order to support, initiate, and showcase projects involving drawing as reportage, visual journalism, documentary drawing and illustration as visual essay. We are interested in projects, which use the made image to interrogate a diverse range of themes. The website works as an editorial space for the dissemination of good practice in this area.

  http://reportager.uwe.ac.uk

• All virtual books

  Inexhaustible archive of digitized illustrated books

  http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/virtualbooks/viewall/index.html#

• The Brilliant Line

  The site follows the visual transformations of early engraving culture and offers new insights into the special inventiveness and technical virtuosity of Early Modern engravers.

  http://risdmuseum.org/art_design/exhibitions/16_the_brilliant_line_following_the_early_modern_engraver_1480_1650

• http://www.graphicsatlas.org/identification/

  Graphics Atlas is an online resource that brings sophisticated print identification and characteristic exploration tools to specialists and the general public

  Graphics Atlas

• The Visual Telling of Stories (Art of Illustration)

  A great and extensive source, including an alphabet of illustrators, an archive of cartoons and informational graphics . The website Chris Mullen aspires to being a Visual Lexicon, dedicated to the primacy of the Visual Proposition.

  http://www.fulltable.com/vts/index2.htm

• Useful sites

  A list of links to useful sites related to graphic techniques, print making and paper convervation, provided by the Studiengang Konservierung und Restaurierung von Kunstwerken auf Papier, Archiv- und Bibliotheksgut der Kunstakademie Stuttgart
  

  http://www.papierrestaurierung.abk-stuttgart.de/archiv/nuetzliche-seiten/

Archives and Documents

• Knowledge in the Making

  Drawing and Writing as Research Techniques / Christoph Hoffmann, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Barbara Wittmann / Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Berlin

  http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/projects/DeptIII_HoffmannWittmann_KnowledgeMaking/index_html

• Robert Weaver in the Collections of Washington University, St. Louis

  https://library.wustl.edu/behind-the-scenes-at-cbs-with-robert-weaver/

• Vincent van Gogh: Van Gogh's Letters

  http://vangoghletters.org/vg/

• Writings of Austin Osman Spare

  http://www.hermetic.com/spare/

• Austin Osman Spare Archive

  http://www.banger.com/banger/spare/index.html

• Les Arts Incohérents

  http://www.artsincoherents.info/

• Carlfriedrich Claus on UbuWeb

  http://www.ubu.com/film/claus.html

• Wilson A. Bentley

  http://snowflakebentley.com/

• The David Claypool Johnston Colletion

  http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Johnston/satire.htm

• John Kay, Barber, Miniaturist & Social Commentator

  http://www.johnkay.org/

• image & narrative

  is an e-journal on visual narratology in the broadest sense of the term. Beside tackling theoretical issues, it is a platform for reviews of real life examples.

  http://www.imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/article/view/1366

• Henri Michaux on UbuWeb

  includes the astonishing document "images du monde visionnaire", an educational film by Henri Michaux and Eric Duvivier which was "produced in 1963 by the film department of Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz in order to demonstrate the hallucinogenic effects of mescaline and hashish."
  

  http://www.ubu.com/film/michaux_images.html

• The Daumier Register

  The first digital catalogue on all 4000 lithographs and 1000 wood engravings
  of Honoré Daumier

  http://www.daumier-register.org/login.php?startpage

• 100 Years of Illustration and Design

  An extensive archive of the history of American Illustration

  http://giam.typepad.com/100_years_of_illustration/

• A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay, with biographical sketches and illustrative anecdot

  Over 300 reproductions of the
  social panorama of Edinburgh, created by John Kay from
  1724 till 1822

  http://edinburghbookshelf.org.uk/volume8/

• Urban Sketchers

  Urban Sketchers is a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the artistic, storytelling and educational value of location drawing, promoting its practice and connecting people around the world who draw on location where they live and travel. We aim to show the world, one drawing at a time.
  

  http://www.urbansketchers.com/

• Illustrierte Kunst- und Satirezeitschriften des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts

  Das umfangreiche Digitalarchiv der Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg beherbergt u.a. ganze Jahrgänge der wichtigsten deutschen und französischen Karikaturmagazine wie die "Fliegende Blätter", den "Kladderadatsch" oder Philipons "La caricature" und Andre Gills "L´Eclipse"

  http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/fachinfo/www/kunst/digilit/artjournals/Welcome.html

• Modern Graphic History Library

  The Modern Graphic History Library at Washington University is comprised of original art and printed material from many fields of popular American pictorial graphic culture. Focusing on 20th century illustration, the collection includes artists' working materials and sketches as well as original artwork from books, magazines, and advertising.

  http://libguides.wustl.edu/c.php?g=46951&p=301713

Art history of (reportage) drawing

• Mining Art / Fionn Taylor

  http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/contents.htm

• Graphic Witness

  Visual Arts & Social Commentary

  http://www.graphicwitness.org/ineye/index2.htm

• Art To The People

  Crane, Steinlen,Hahn, Masereel, Arntz

  http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/art/voorstellen2.html

• Oral Histories, Archives of American Art, Smithonian Institut

  Lots of Interviews with illustrators like Ben Shan, Philip Guston and Fritz Eichenberg

  https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/search?edan_fq[]=p.edanmdm.descriptivenonrepeating.record_id:AAADCD_oh_*

• Drawing The Court

  the genre of courtroomsketches is documented with historical and contempary examples

  http://risuemsud.ru/en/

• Courtroom Artists

  A blog with rich material of American courtroom artists

  http://www.courtartist.com/

Comics & sequential arts

• Coconino Classics

  Une ressource encyclopaedique sur l'histoire de la narration graphique

  http://www.old-coconino.com/s_classics_v3/mng_classics.php

• The Center for Cartoon Studies, White River Junction, Vermont

  http://www.cartoonstudies.org/

• Sequart / Research and Literacy Organization

  http://www.sequart.com/

• Lianhuanhua - Chinese Picture Story Books

  http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/storybook/index.php?c=1

• Literature in Line - Chinese Picture Stories, Ohio State University

  http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/exhib/ccomic/comindx.html

• Blog on Comics, Graphic Novels, Picture Writing...

  http://electrocomics.blogspot.de/

• Strapazin

  The famous Swiss Comic Magazine

  http://www.strapazin.ch/

• Graphic Novels

  Informations on new releases of the publishers Avant-Verlag,Strapazin, Reprodukt and Edition 52

  http://www.graphic-novel.info/?cat=5

• succoacido.net

  SuccoAcido aims at the intersection of the languages of different arts.

  http://www.succoacido.net/default.asp

• ImageTexT

  ImageTexT is a peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of comics and related media.The
  content is available free of charge, and regular issues of ImageTexT will be published three times per year.

  http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/

• Early Comics Archive

  A big archive on 19th century picture-stories

  http://konkykru.com/earlycomics.html

• Cartoonmuseum Basel

  Das Cartoonmuseum Basel widmet sich als einziges Museum der Schweiz der Zeichenkunst und präsentiert und vermittelt Themen aus den Bereichen Comic, Animation und Karikatur. Seine bedeutende Sammlung von über 3400 Originalwerken und die kuratierten, thematischen und/oder monografischen Ausstellungen von Originalwerken machen es zu einem Kompetenzzentrum für satirische Kunst.

  http://www.cartoonmuseum.ch/

• New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium

  Ben Katchor started this lecture-series at Parsons The New School in May 2012.

  https://nycomicssymposium.wordpress.com/

• The Cartoon Picayune

  The Cartoon Picayune is an anthology magazine of journalistic reportage completely in the medium of comics.

  http://www.cartoonpicayune.com/

Automatism & mediumism

• The Aesthetic Use of Machinic Beings / James R. Hugunin

  http://www.uturn.org/Synapsis/

• Angel Drawing

  Divine scripture from the spheres and the active intellect

  http://www.angel-drawing.com/

• Sketch crawl

  drawing marathons from around the world

  http://www.sketchcrawl.com/

Printing Culture

• William James Linton

  http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/linton.html

• The Cherryburn Times

  The Newsletter of the Thomas Bewick Society with valuable contributions on all matters concerning the godfather of xylography. The newsletter is published twice a year.

  http://www.bewicksociety.org/Cherryburn%20Times.html

• Useful sites

  A list of links to useful sites related to graphic techniques, print making and paper convervation provided by the Studiengang Konservierung und Restaurierung von Kunstwerken auf Papier, Archiv- und Bibliotheksgut der Kunstakademie Stuttgart
  

  http://www.papierrestaurierung.abk-stuttgart.de/archiv/nuetzliche-seiten/

Resources

• BibliOdyssey

  "Books, Illustrations, Science, History, Visual Materia Obscura, Eclectic Book Art"

  http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/

• Rare Book Room

  http://rarebookroom.org/

• The New York Public Library

  http://www.nypl.org/digital/

• Biolib

  A collection of historic and modern biology books

  http://www.biolib.de

• Medical Illustrations, Iowa Digital Library

  http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=all&CISOBOX1=&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOROOT=%2Fjmrbr

• Thomas Nast

  Nasty Archive

  http://www.thomasnast.com/

• Great Caricatures

  Daumier, Gill, Nast etc.

  http://greatcaricatures.com/index.html

• William Blake Archive

  the indispensable one ...

  http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/main.html

• James Gillray Archive

  http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/gillray/index.html

• Fliegende Blätter (1845-1944) - digital

  Extensive archive of the famous German magazine of humour with leading artists like Wilhelm Busch, Gustav Adolf Closs, Hans Kaufmann, Adolf Oberländer, Franz Graf von Pocci, Moritz v. Schwind and Carl Spitzweg.

  http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/fachinfo/www/kunst/digilit/fliegendeblaetter.html

• The Victorian Web

  Literature,history & culture in the age of Queen Victoria

  http://www.victorianweb.org/index.html

• Illustrated art - and satire magazines of the 19th and early 20th century

  The extensive digital archive of the University Library Heidelberg
  has entire volumes of the most important German and French cartoon magazines such as Kaspar Braun´s "Fliegende Blätter", the "Kladderadatsch", Philipon´s "La caricature" and Andre Gill´s "L ´ Eclipse"

  http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/fachinfo/www/kunst/digilit/artjournals/Welcome.html

• Eighteenth-Century Scholarship Online

  provides users with access to peer-reviewed scholarly content and the ability to search digital archives containing primary source material.
  

  http://www.18thconnect.org/

• Nineteenth-Century Scholarship Online

  a scholarly organization devoted to forging links between the material archive of the nineteenth century and the digital research environment of the twenty-first. <br />
  

  http://www.nines.org/

Artists' pages

• Ben Katchor: Picture Stories

  http://www.katchor.com

• Andy Bleck

  http://www.andybleck.de/index.home.html

• Bilderdienst Berlin / Andreas Seltzer, Heike Vogler

  Vogler http://www.bilderdienst-berlin.de/

• Ikonolog / Matthias Reinhold

  mit einem Netzwerk aus Zeichnungen den Vorgang des Erinnerns modellieren.

  http://www.ikonolog.de/

• Theo de Feyter/ my view at 5 pm

  "Every day, if present, I paint the view from my studio window. Size (A4), technique (watercolour), time (5 p.m.), position in the studio and the direction in which I look are fixed. Sometimes the windowsill can be seen with the different objects which have gathered there through time."

  http://www.theodefeyter.nl/pages/dag_tekeningen.asp

• Steve Bell Archive, The Guardian

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/archive/0,,1284265,00.html

• Ben Katchor, Weekly Strips

  http://www.katchor.com/weeklystrips.html

• Olivier Kugler

  Site with examples of drawn reports

  http://www.olivierkugler.com/

• Ingo Giezendanner

  a structural odyssey

  http://www.grrrr.net/index.html

• Ulli Lust

  including sections with drawn reports and graphic columns

  http://www.ullilust.de/

• Matthias Beckmann

  zeigt Abbildungen seiner verschiedenen
  Zeichenprojekte seit 2002

  http://www.matthiasbeckmann.com/indexGERMAN.html

• Oliver Grajewski

  Website mit monatlich aktualisierten Beispielen von Oliver Grajewski´s autobiographisch-dokumentarischen Comics.

  http://www.skalien.de/

• Reportagezeichnung. Blog von Bo Soremsky

  Die Bildberichterstattung wird von der Fotografie dominiert. Doch seit einiger Zeit tauchen immer wieder illustrierte Bildreportagen auf. Zufall oder Trend? Und hat sich "die Illustration" im Vergleich zu den historischen Pressezeichnungen verändert?
  

  http://www.reportagezeichnung.de/

• Guy Delisle: Comme ci, comme ca

  Blog of the Canadian comic author Guy Delisle

  http://www.guydelisle.com/blog/

• Archcomix

  Dan Archer creates non-fictional, journalistic comics to offer a new perspective on US foreign and domestic policy and give voice to stories that wouldn?t otherwise be heard.

  http://www.archcomix.com/about/

• Kyung-hwa Choi-ahoi

  Includes her long term-projects "diary drawings" and "Enzyklopädia Personae"

  http://www.kyunghwachoiahoi.com/

• Seattle Sketcher

  An illustrated journal by Gabriel Campanario, founder of the Urban Sketchers Movement

  http://www.seattletimes.com/seattlesketcher

Illustrated newspapers

• Kladderadatsch

  http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/digi/kladderadatsch.html

• The Illustrated London News

  http://www.iln.org.uk/

• Don Pirlone

  http://apicesv3.noto.unimi.it/marengo/donpirlone.html

War artists

• International Society of War Artists

  A chronicle of artists dedicated to creating from and in the crucible of war

  http://internationalsocietyofwarartists.blogspot.com/

• War artists

  A very fragmentary list of mainly British and American
  war artists.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_artist

• The Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library

  The foremost American collection of material devoted to the history and iconography of soldiers and soldiering.

  http://dl.lib.brown.edu/libweb/collections/askb/

• The collections of the Imperial War Museum London

  http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections

• Le musée de l'Armée, Paris

  http://www.invalides.org/pages/nvx_2gm.html

• The Crimean War visual

  http://www.victorianweb.org/history/crimea/vismatov.html

• World War Pictures

  Official british War artist of WWI And WWII

  http://www.world-war-pictures.com/war-artists.htm

• The Illustrated Enemy

  This site includes mainly caricatures of national leaders and military and civilian life during World War I.

  http://graphicwitness.org/ineye/ww1.htm

• Propaganda-Kompanie

  Informations on the German propaganda batallions during WWII

  http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda-Kompanie

• BAGHDAD JOURNAL

  Archive of all installations of Steve Mumfords graphic reports on the capital of Iraq during the war time.

  http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/baghdadjournal.asp

• Richard Johnson- News Illustrator

  This site by war artist Richard Johnson includes his editorial graphics for Canada's National Post and his work from the Iraq invasion and the war in Afghanistan.

  http://newsillustrator.com/

• Sketchpad Warrior

  Weblog of Stg.Kristopher Battles, combat artist, with drawings and paintings from Afghanistan.

  http://www.kjbattles.blogspot.com/

• Fire and Ice

  Weblog of Chief Warrant Officer Michael D. Fay. Combat art and personal reflections from the War on Terrorism

  http://www.mdfay1.blogspot.com/

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