You may remember me recently posting on a new exhibition of work by William Hogarth at Tate Britain and remarking that some of Hogarth’s sequential paintings and engravings have been viewed as distant ancestors of visual storytelling in modern comics. Today the Guardian has one of our best contemporary cartoonists, Steve Bell, along with critic Jonathan Jones giving what is effectively the web version of a talk with slideshow outlining their impressions from a visit to the exhibit, including the sequential Rake’s Progress series – well worth a look.
(Enraged Musician, 1741, by Hogarth)
Fri, Feb 23, 2007
Art and animation