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A Curios Hero: Stephen Wiltshire
Get ready to ooooh and ahhhhh. The autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire has a photographic memory and can sketch a panorama of entire city in detail from memory after just seeing it for a few minutes. Here’s his replication of Tokyo after observing the city for 30 minutes from a helicopter. Apparently the number of skyscrapers, the location of landmarks, the skyline, even the number of windows - it’s all spot-on. That just blows our mind.
Want to see Stephen in action? Check out this video here.
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American illustrator William Wallace Denslow at his desk, 1900.
HENRY PATRICK RALEIGH (1880-1944)
The illustrator Henry Raleigh started and ended life in poverty and despair. But in between, he spent decades painting high society pictures and living the opulent life of one of the best paid illustrators in the country.
Born into a broken and destitute family, Raleigh began working at age 9 to support his mother and sisters. By the age of 12, he quit school altogether and found work on the docks of San Francisco, processing shipments of coffee beans from South America. Here, rough sailors and roustabouts filled his head with colorful and bawdy stories of life in far off places.
At his peak, Raleigh was able to make enough money from just three or four months of work to enable him to spend the balance of the year traveling abroad with family and friends.
But Raleigh also spent money freely. He gave away thousands of dollars to friends, traveled lavishly, maintained a yacht, owned a mansion and kept a large studio in downtown Manhattan.
Unfortunately, styles changed (along with social values and taste in art) and his work dried up. Raleigh could not adapt; bankrupt and bitter, he committed suicide in 1944 by jumping out of the window of a sleazy hotel in Times Square.
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Jean Giraud, aka Moebius, passed away this morning.
Thank you for your art and fare thee well wherever you go.
Rest in peace, ultimate comic art bro. Your work was top-notch.
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One of my greatest wishes is that Chris Riddell fully illustrate an Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. He’s one of my favourite all-time illustrators and I think he’s magnificent.
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