Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Illustrations (Dona)

THIRD started out with zero illustrations.  Then we started using Isaiah's comics.

Making Dennis a Menace

"Rounding up Lucy"

Shutting Down The Domestic Arts Czar

"Domestic Arts Czar"

Al  Distraction

His "Making Dennis a Menace," "Rounding Up Lucy," "Shouting Down The Domestic Arts Czar," "Domestic Arts Czar" and "Al Distraction" were a part of a series sending up self-appointed judge of comics Al Sharpton.

Sometimes Isaiah would create an image for one of our stories.

masculinist terry

We also started using public domain illustrations -- by scouring newspapers and magazines from the 1800s.  But eventually we moved towards our own illustrations -- photos, sketches, paintings, etc.



Why?

I always argued that it was easy on the eye and broke up the same old same old of words, words, words.


The first illustration created by us for this site was created by Jess who felt Ava and C.I.'s TV pieces, being so popular, deserved their own illustration.  This led to many illustrations -- usually a new one every two years for the TV pieces -- since Ava and C.i. have now been covering the media for 14 years.



























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1tv


tv


a new illst

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Media coverage would also require screen snaps.





michelle


Bully Online

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cf4

cf5








mission jaime 2


ollie

cougar town

James Wolk

magic mike


bad teacher


tootsie6

jane fonda

revenge


funny

whms12

dracula

wh121

1 batman

Joan Crawford 2

fringe

crackle




I always like our musical illustrations.




Related image



diana




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Image result for "the third estate sunday review" "kyle snyder"

With some of our illustrations, they begged the question what did they mean?

Image result for "the third estate sunday review"


Motion


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meal


Flowers


good




vday 009

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Some, like the ones above, weren't even connected to an article they were matched with.  That was okay with me.  I was even for our brief comedy cards that popped up for a few weeks and were inspired, clearly, by the TV show LAUGH-IN.


Some pieces required illustrations specific to those features such as "Justice for Abeer and her family?"























Or a Judith Regan might end up in the news and we'd do an illustration.























Or someone important like Molly Ivins might pass.

molly



Or we're doing a short story on the NSA spying and Ty says we should have the NSA employee online porn performers so we write the story and then go looking for an illustration.  Guy below actually was (is?) an online porn performer.  He was asking who wanted him to stick his finger up his ass and sniff it?  We asked him if it was okay to take a screen snap, he said yes and we gave him a donation.


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Or . . .

comiccon




Somethings were historically important and demanded a photograph.

dmn


And others . . .

peacenation


Of course we did illustrations of war resisters and Iraq Veterans Against the War members.

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Ryan Endicott

Christopher Gallagher

Devon Read








We covered a lot of products and that allowed us to use various images.

cfc


And some of the images we'd create ourselves.







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Echo, Frenemey of the State, Scarlet

Marvel Girl, Batwoman

kermit

chickensop




ramen 13




We would gladly get the word out on an event.




We even ran an ad (that we tore out of a magazine, we weren't paid for running it) for a TV show we loved.






Mainly, we just covered things.








Diana 4

diana 1


Bomb Queen


chris hedges

a natural woman
cher

sd

scooby doo

aw


Ashford & Simpson Street Opera

Sonny & Cher Good Times


1 smart puffs









barefoot in baghdad








For regular features, we created illustrations.  Mail bag, for example, resulted in this.

mailcall


Other regular features resulted in these.

a radio
books


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movie montage


aa5

Roundtable



That last one was created by Betty's kids.


There were public domain photos released by The Library of Congress.


Lena Horne



Greta



Greta Garbo


Ramon Navarro

dietrich


Above is Lena Horne, Greta Garbo in two pics, Ramon Navarro and Marlene Dietrich

There were other public domain photos.

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barzani


johnkerry


Talabani.U.S.Delegation.19-11-2011


iraq war

Senator Patty Murray with Iraq War veteran Ty Rose

barzani

maliki2

maliki4

Hillary Clinton Sworn In

Patty Murray

Steven D. Green


Marines and Crocker

curiosity

Some photos were pure luck.  A COMMON ILLS community member takes her kids to the downtown Dallas public library and, across the street, in front of City Hall, a group (the Tea Party) is staging one of its early rallies.


Tea Party Dallas II



Wally, Kat, Ava and C.I. attend many Congressional hearings.  They sometimes grab a quick snap.

beto orourke


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And when the people's attorney Lynne Stewart was wrongly imprisoned, we created an image to run with our coverage of her.


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And when Bully Boy Bush occupied the White House we did "My Fascist House" -- a collage -- regularly.



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I'd prefer we do our own illustrations.


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