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Illustrator, writer and educator
Senior Lecturer in Graphic and Spatial Design at London College of Communication (LCC).
Karl Andy Foster
Illustrator, writer and educator
Links
- Follow me on twitter
- The Society of Illustrators
- The Society of Artists Agents Hub
- The House of Illustration
- The Association of Illustrators
- Steve May's Blog
- Sian Jones Web Designer
- Remedy Farhana Jaffer's Online Magazine Showcasing New Design Talent
- Rebekah Ford Web Designer, Developer, DJ and Doodler
- Peepshow Collective
- Paul Gravett Comica
- London College of Communication
- LeGun Collective
- Laura Yates (former Illustration student)
- Jan Huling Author and Designer
- Ian Barraclough Imagemaker
- Google News
- Frances Castle's Illustration Blog
- Edit-Me
- Christopher Gibbs Blogspot
- Chloe Bowles (former Illustration student)
- Caroline Thomson Illustrator and Illustrator's Agent
- Barbara Ana Gomez (former Illustration student)
- Arena Illustration Agents
- Andrew Hitchen new website (former illustration student)
- Andrea Giglioni (former Illustration student)
- Ana Vicente Artist
Influences and Inspiration
- Alan Young my former tutor on degree course
- Bernard Herrman Composer
- Black Narcissus Film 1947
- Buster Keaton
- Caroline Thomson Partner
- Cathy Stocker friend of 27 years
- Chateau Briand and New Potatoes
- David Beale lifetime friend
- Ennio Morricone Composer
- Frank Augustus Hinds Grandfather
- Graham Wedge Father
- Hogarth Father of Narrative Illustration
- Jack Cardiff Cinematographer and Director
- James Brown Godfather
- Jenning's Snecklifter
- Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David
- London, England
- Malbec Grapes
- Manchester, England
- Michael Eade my former art tutor at secondary school
- New York City
- Rhapsody in Blue performed by Lang Lang and Herbie Hancock
- Richard Serra Artist
- Riddley Walker novel 1980
- Sergio Leone Film Director
- Spanish American Cinema
- Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
- Teaching Graphic Design and Illustration
- Test Cricket
- The Barbican, London
- William Blake Visionary
Artists and Designers you should find out about
- Adrian Tomine 'Shortcomings'
- Alan Lee 'Lord of the Rings'
- Alex Maleev 'Daredevil'
- Alison Bechdel 'Fun Home'
- Anish Kapoor
- Art Spiegelman 'Maus'
- Bill Griffiths 'Zippy'
- Bill Sienkiewicz 'Big Numbers' and 'Elektra: Assassin'
- Billie Jean
- Brad Holland
- Brian Talbot 'Alice in Sunderland'
- Charles Burns 'Black Hole' and 'The Believer'
- Chip Kidd 'The Complete Schulz' and 'Dark Knight Strikes Again'
- Chris Ware 'Building Stories' and 'Rusty Brown'
- Christopher Gibbs
- Craig Thompson 'Blankets', 'Habibi' and 'Goodbye Chunky Rice'
- Daniel Clowes 'Ghost World', 'Wilson' and 'Mr Wonderful'
- Dave McKean "Mirror Mask', 'Cages' and 'The Savage'
- David Mazzucchelli 'City of Glass', Arterios Polyp' and 'Batman Year One'
- Edward Gorey
- Frans Masereel 'Passionate Journey' and 'The Sun'
- Gerald Scarfe 'The Wall'
- Gilbert Shelton 'Fat Freddy's Cat'
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Jack Kirby 'Fourth World'
- Jaime Hernandez 'Love and Rockets'
- Jamie Hewlett 'Gorillaz'
- Janet Woolley
- Jessica Abel 'La Perdida'
- John Howe 'Lost Worlds' and 'Lord of the Rings'
- John J Muth 'M' and 'Moonshadow'
- Julie Doucet 'My New York Diary'
- Kent Williams 'Blood - A Tale' and 'The Fountain'
- Kyle Baker 'Nat Turner'
- Lara Harwood
- Lorenzo Mattotti 'Stigmata'
- Marjane Satrapi "Persepolis'
- Marshall Arisman
- Posy Simmonds 'Tamara Drewe' and 'Gemma Bovary'
- Richard Serra
- Robert Crumb 'American Splendour' and 'Heroes of Blues, Jazz, & Country'
- Sara Fanelli 'Pinocchio'
- Saul Steinberg 'The View from Ninth Avenue'
- Sean Phillips 'Sleeper' and 'Criminal'
- Seth 'Clyde Fans'
- Shaun Tan 'Arrival'
- Simone Lia
- Tom Gauld 'Hunter and Painter'
Blog Archive
Labels
- LCC Student work 2008-2009 (168)
- LCC Student work 2010 - 2011 (79)
- Announcements (37)
- LCC Student work 2009-2010 (35)
- Teaching and Learning (29)
- Music That Moves Me (15)
- Creative Media Programme Alumni (12)
- LCC Illustration Alumni meet up (8)
- Networking event (6)
- My Work (4)
- Sketchbooks (4)
- Former LCC student work (3)
- Lexicon (2)
- Narrative Storytelling Process (2)
- New Blog (2)
- 100 DATES (1)
- LCC Illustration Alumni (1)
- LCC Student work 2011-2012 (1)
- LCC Student work 2012-2013 (1)
- MPhil/ PhD (1)
Blog Roll
Want to know more?
- The Life of a Graphic Storyteller
- Right-sided brain thinker, imaginative and energetic. I act as a facilitator and network builder. I have developed curriculum with multiple stakeholders’ using specialist knowledge in education and graphic design.
Films I've focussed on recently
- Blood Simple 1984 (Coen Brothers best film)
- Point Blank ( A Bout Portent) 2011 (Plot, Pace and Human Race)
- The Big Picture 2011 (Narrative and Cinematography)
- The Conformist 1970 (Editing and Cinematography)
- Total Hitchcock 1927 - 1976
- Tree Of Life 2011 (Profound, Mystical and Rite of Passage
Albums I've tuned into recently
- The Greatest Man In The Universe - Bobby Womack
Followers
Reading Suggestions
- 3X3 Magazine
- Alan Moore and Eddie Cambell's 'From Hell'
- Anton Shammas 'Arabesques'
- AOI's Varoom Magazine
- C.L.R. James' 'The Black Jacobins'
- Centaur Publishing's Creative Review
- Chester Brown's Louis Riel
- Darrel Ree's How to be an Illustrator
- Darwyn Cooke and Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter
- David Mazzucchelli's Asterios Polyp
- Don DeLillo's Underworld
- Douglas Wolk's Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean
- Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' 'Incognito' and 'Criminal'
- Emile Zola's Germinal, La Bete Humaine, L'Assommoir and La Debacle
- Eye Magazine
- Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment
- George Lamming's 'In the Castle of My Skin'
- I. N. J. Culbard and Ian Edginton's graphic novels of Dorian Gray and The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Ishmael Reed's Reckless Eyeballing 1986 and Mumbo Jumbo
- Lawrence Zeegan's Digital Illustration: A Master Class in Creative Image-making and Secrets of Digital Illustration: A Master Class in Commercial Image-Making
- London A - Z
- Malcolm X 'By Any Means Necessary'
- Marcel Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time'
- Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece's Incognegro
- Michael Ondaatje's 'The English Patient', 'Coming Through Slaughter', 'The Collected Works of Billy the Kid' and 'In the Skin of A Lion'
- Mike Davis' 'City of Quartz'
- Mikhael Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
- Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe's Miles, the Autobiography
- Miquel Cervantes 'Don Quixote'
- Patricia J. Williams 1997 Reith Lecture 'Seeing A Colour-Blind Future'
- Paul Gravett's Graphic novels: everything you need to know
- Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' Trilogy
- Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man'
- Richard Wright's Native Son
- Roger Sabin's Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels: A History of Comic Art
- Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker
- Steve Hall's Raw Shark Texts
- William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Titus Andronicus, Othello and Hamlet
- Woodrow Phoenix's Rumble Strip
Narrative Structures - Key Creators
- Adrian Tomine - Shortcomings, Summer Blonde, Sleepwalk, Optic Nerve
- Alan Moore – Watchmen, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, From Hell
- Alex Maleev - Daredevil
- Alison Bechdel – Fun Home
- Brian Michael Bendis – Daredevil, Secret Invasion
- Chris Onstad – Achewood.com
- Chris Ware, Acme Novelty Library, Jimmy Corrigan the Smartest Kid on Earth
- Craig Thompson – Blankets, Chunky Rice
- Dave Gibbons – Watchmen, Give Me Liberty
- Dave McKean – Arkham Asylum, The Savage
- Ed Brubaker – Criminal, Incognito, Sleeper
- Frank Miller – Daredevil, 300, Sin City
- Harvey Pekar – American Splendour
- Ivan Brunetti - Schizo, Haw and Hee
- Jack Kirby – Fantastic Four, X-men, New Gods, Eternals
- Joe Sacco – Palestine, Safe Area, Gorazde, Footnotes from Gaza
- Julie Doucet – Dirty Plotte, My New York Diary
- Kent Williams – Blood, The Fountain
- Kyle Baker – Nat Turner
- Melinda Gebbie - Lost Girls
- Neil Gaiman – Coraline, Stardust
- Osamu Tezuka – Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion
- Posy Simmonds – Gemma Bovary, Tamara Drewe
- Shaun Tan – Arrival, Tales from Outer Suburbia
- Will Eisner – A Contract with God, The Spirit
- Yoshihiro Tatsumi – A Drifting Life, The Push Man and Other Stories
Narrative Structures - Publishing Houses
- Abrams
- Alternative Comics
- Buenaventura Press (Kramers Ergot)
- Dark Horse Comics
- DC Comics
- Drawn and Quarterly
- Fantagraphics Books
- Jonathan Cape (Random House)
- Lulu (self-publishing)
- Marvel Entertainment
- McSweeney's
- Pantheon Books
- Raw Books and Graphics
- Titan Books
- Top Shelf
- Vertigo
- Yale University Press
Narrative Structures - Comic Festivals
- Angouleme International Comic Festival www.bdangouleme.com
- Comic-Con San Diego California www.comic-con.org/cci/ New York www.comicon.com
- Comica London international Comic Festival www.paulgravett.com/comica/comica08
- Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art www.moccany.org
- The Toronto comic Arts Festival www.torontocomics.com
Narrative Structures - Critical Awards
- Association of Illustrators Images Awards www.aoiimages.com/awards.htm
- Society of Illustrators http://societyillustrators.org/index.cms
- Victoria & Albert Museum Illustration Awards www.vam.ac.uk/activ_events/events/illustration_awards/index.html
- Ignatz Awards www.spxpo.com/?tag=ignatz
- Eisner Comic Industry Awards www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_eisners_main.shtml
- The Harvey Awards www.harveyawards.org/history.html
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