tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post1176866781469644269..comments2023-12-15T02:38:55.020+10:30Comments on Still Life With Cat: Illustration, obfuscationKerryn Goldsworthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11270814460793882309noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post-36456141876957906932009-03-05T10:06:00.000+10:302009-03-05T10:06:00.000+10:30My anecdata, for what it's worth, is that the one ...My anecdata, for what it's worth, is that the one and only large newspaper cartoonist of my aquaintance works from a studio beside his house. Nowhere near the journos. As far as I know his only interactions with the paper are via the relevant editor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post-52418613986180114622009-03-02T20:57:00.000+10:302009-03-02T20:57:00.000+10:30Sitting here reading this after a news broadcast, ...Sitting here reading this after a news broadcast, revealing that yet another woman has been sexually assaulted by a group of marauding NRL players. Described with the usual depressing lack of interest by a fine member of the Queensland Police. Nothing to see here, move along please. <BR/>If only the Devine collaborator would give us a depiction of the footballers with the same edge.. not likely - that would be..over the top. Unfair. <BR/>And I would be very surprised if someone on the subby desks at Fairfax didn't 'engage' with the illustrator as to the required outcome. Probably not Miranda. Though, she is awfully important...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post-57232361304696864452009-03-02T13:37:00.000+10:302009-03-02T13:37:00.000+10:30.."star", that was..."star", that was.Lefty Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987607139560429227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post-39122216307332023172009-03-02T13:36:00.000+10:302009-03-02T13:36:00.000+10:30Jeez, you're a start Pav! You cant have been too l...Jeez, you're a start Pav! You cant have been too long out of shortpants in '83.Lefty Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987607139560429227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post-77977026795517937752009-03-02T12:45:00.000+10:302009-03-02T12:45:00.000+10:30And more of teh weird: the link you've just posted...And more of teh weird: the link you've just posted to the current LP fire thread features a drawing by the Chamberlain-caricature person. (Your point about a staff writer having more communication with the illustrator is well taken BTW. It could be as simple a matter as hovering around his desk/easel/board/whatevs.)<BR/><BR/>I love 'The Cost of Things'. Elizabeth Harrrower is one of this country's most underrated writers.<BR/><BR/>Duckie, I love it that you find uses for posts here. Lucy, I haven't seen that take on the Roberts painting. Brilliant though, as you say.<BR/><BR/>WV 'flamon'. I take this to be an exhortation, Laura, as per your joke about ralphing the kidney and rocking the casbah.Kerryn Goldsworthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11270814460793882309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post-45111007642026507772009-03-02T11:19:00.000+10:302009-03-02T11:19:00.000+10:30It's YOUR Special Subject, o book cover designing ...It's YOUR Special Subject, o book cover designing woman!<BR/><BR/>Teh weird just keeps piling up, that anthology is actually on my desk right this minute (I'm giving a lecture shortly for T'ian's Aust Lit course, on some short stories, including "The Cost of Things" - and it was just last week I was wondering why that picture was on the cover, since it didn't seem to have much to do with the contents beyond being, you know, Aussie. So mr publisher could stick that in his pipe and smoke it, if he still smokes a pipe. <BR/><BR/>When I read Helen's post I thought that because Devine is a staff writer there might perhaps be some communication between her and the illustrator. I have the impression that there never is any communication when it's a freelancer who's written the piece. I'd be interested to know if that's right. <BR/><BR/>Back to teh weird, Lucy, the students who take my women's writing subject next semester will be reading your story 'Kay and Phil', as well as Swastika Night. lol...lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post-14756872909329436522009-03-02T10:25:00.000+10:302009-03-02T10:25:00.000+10:30Ah yes, but that particular image was wonderfully ...Ah yes, but that particular image was wonderfully deconstructed for a book edited by Chris Lee (sorry Chris, can't recall the title). It simply added a long black plait to the stockrider, which created a suggestion of a/femininity b/ye exotic east. Brilliant! <BR/><BR/>In our current dire climate we need eternal vigilance, eternal small deconstructions. Even if it is only to read NEW SCIENTIST on public transport when looking particularly girly. Which was my response to Marieke Hardy saying on "the Book Show" that she didn't "get science". Lucy SussexAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post-1249794385428892512009-03-02T10:24:00.000+10:302009-03-02T10:24:00.000+10:30Yet another useful post that I can link to when I ...Yet another useful post that I can link to when I try to explain this sort of thing to students and clients! <BR/><BR/>Many is the time I've been cranky as hell about the combination of text and image in the press and on book covers. Fewer are the times I feel something sings -- and annoyingly, I don't recognise enough when the combination is RIGHT, because it doesn't scream or sing, it just floats in front of the eyes and lets the eyes rest.<BR/><BR/>I'd like to see what light (lite) Laura can shed upon this, as it's her Special Subject.Ampersand Duckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12245377686193859488noreply@blogger.com