On the whole, grandparents usually fare quite fare in stories. Think Little Red Riding Hood’s grandmother or any one of the thousands of cosy nannas and granpas who populate Hallmark movies. They bake cookies, they beam with welcoming saint-like happiness, and they indulgently let their grandchildren do all the things Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: “Icons Unmasked” by Alex Solis playfully reveals the real identities of cartoon icons
Oh how I love someone who thinks creatively out of the box. In this case, it’s immensely clever artist Alex Solis who wondered what really lay behind the faces of some of animation’s most recognisable faces. His artistic musings resulted in Icons Unmasked, which pulls back the veneer to Continue Reading