The children and grandchildren of this kindly looking fellow include almost all of today's graphic novels, the best of which are widely and justly acclaimed for their blend of bold illustration with stories that are often troubling and touch on matters way beyond traditional comic-book fare.
Such a notion resides at the heart of "Eventually Everything Connects," with its bright, bold illustrations — gouache mostly — and its recognition that the lines we imagine dividing art and artists are really points of intersection instead.
So to get the look of the film they distilled photographic references into graphic and bold illustrations using a restricted color palette.
Bold illustrations and a simple rhyming text capture the urgency of the situation.
This aviator draws incessantly, making bold illustrations.
In a bold illustration of the power of one of the militant groups in southern Punjab, the provincial law minister, Rana Sanaullah, campaigned alongside the leader of Sipah-e-Sohaba, Maulana Muhammad Ahmed Ludhianvi, during a March by-election for the provincial assembly in the city of Jhang.
But the mix of bold, wildly distorted lettering, luminous color and cartoon imagery betrayed a practiced understanding of illustration, design, scale and theatrical impact.
The uncertain outcome of the election in Italy is only the latest illustration of how a sclerotic system has become increasingly fragmented, leaving fragile multiparty coalitions incapable of bold gestures and holding the reins of power only tentatively.
His bold, blocky illustrations in primary colors, composed of simple, familiar shapes and set against bright solid backgrounds, somehow unleash inquisitiveness and imagination.
Even with a love for Calvin and Hobbes, his drawings are not bold line illustrations; they are elaborate, dreamlike, masterful works of art channeling every corner of Bonagurio's universe.
