Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator Henry Clarke lived a short but creatively fruitful life.
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Kay Nielsen is an illustrator from the era of Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac. Though equally as talented, for most of his career he remained in the shadows of these two giants.
Writers can get attached to their syntax and feel that their way of writing the world is better than possible alternatives, simply because that writing is theirs. Often that does not turn out to best serve the author’s work.
How many writers have sat at their keyboard, or at a desk with a pad of paper, pen in hand, trying to figure out the story arc for their protagonist? For some of us it’s an easy task, for others it’s a brain cramping event.
Mercer Mayer is highly accomplished author and illustrator of children’s books, whose work I have enjoyed immensely for many years.
We will never get back the hours of time we lose every day on social media.
I feel that in many forms of media, the features that make characters interesting, unique and multi-dimensional are being lost to anxieties about diversity and inclusion checklists.
Miyamoto Musashi is perhaps Japan’s most celebrated swordsman. He is a historical figure whose exploits have reached mythic proportions.
My early years were spent living in Manhattan. New York, for anyone who has never visited, is a city to be seen on foot. You can walk everywhere; there is always something or someone to see.
Bruce Lee’s career was short. Six films. He died suddenly at age 32, on the cusp of international stardom. And yet, Bruce Lee lives on, as engaging today and he was in the 60s and 70s. Why? His charisma.