Art in The Wilderness

A Retrospective of The Art of Ronald Rodney

By Ronald Rodney

Art in the Wilderness is a voice crying out to the artist, the art historians, educators, politicians, pastors, museums, art galleries, and to all peoples who have a desire for justice, a yearning for knowledge and the need to understand one m...

Backstage At The Strips

By Mort Walker

A behind the scenes humorous description of the comic strip business, the syndicate business, the funny people who draw the comics, the fans, the organizations and my bio.

The Lexicon of Comicana

By Mort Walker

Written as a satire on the comic devices cartoonists use, the book quickly became a textbook for art students. Walker researched cartoons around the world to collect this international set of cartoon symbols. The names he invented for them now appear...

Behind the Van Gogh Forgeries

A Memoir

By David Grossvogel

Recent research has called into question many of Van Gogh's best-known works, including the most expensive canvas sold in the twentieth century, the SUNFLOWERS acquired in 1987 for just under 40 million dollars. The waves raised by this research hav...

Cartoon Monickers

An Insight Into the Animation Industry

By Walter Brasch

Animated cartoons are part of a multi-billion dollar mass communications industry that began shortly before the turn of the 20th century. The first cartoons appeared almost with the birth of the film industry. Beginning with the late 1920s, cartoon &...

Defining Art: Messages from God

By William Bray

In today's murky attempts to define art we see countless articles entitled "Is this Art?" or "What is Art?" Overlooked and forgotten is the definition of art simply provided by perhaps the founder of Western Civilization: Socrates. It is clearly stat...

GHETTO REVIVAL

By Belinda Guest Weale

When twelve-year-old Sherza, an exceptional student, walks out with his father in Saint Louis, Missouri, he sees a boy about his age who appears to be homeless. Sherza, a Christian, wants to help him, although his father is hesitant. He warns Sherza ...