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Edwin Austin Abbey
Philadelphia-born illustrator Edwin Austin Abbey reached success at a relatively young age. After studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, he began producing illustrations for Harper's Weekly while still a teenager. He also created pen and ink illustrations for several books, including many of the works of William Shakespeare. The illustration he did was: book illustration, murals and Decorative & Applied. -
Rapheal Kirchner
was an Austrian artist, principally a portrait painter and illustrator best known for Art Nouveau and early pin-up work, especially in picture postcard format. His work served as an early inspiration to Peruvian painter Alberto Vargas, who had a career in the United States for the film and men's magazine industry. -
Walter Crane
was an English artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children’s book creator of his generation[1] and, along with Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway, one of the strongest contributors to the child's nursery motif that the genre of English children's illustrated literature would exhibit in its developmental stages in the latter 19th century. -
Queen Victoria dies
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Titanic' sinks with the loss of 1,503 lives
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World War 1 started
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Mickey Mouse is born: Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie premieres, introducing the world to a new animated character: Mickey Mouse
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Neysha Mcmein
was an American illustrator and portrait painter who studied at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and Art Students League of New York. She began her career as an illustrator and during World War I, she traveled across France entertaining military troops with Dorothy Parker and made posters to support the war effort. She was made an honorary non-commissioned officer in the United States Marine Corps for her contributions to the war effort. -
Georges Lepape
By 1920 Lepape was at the very top of his profession. He had completed a prolific decade of work, including illustrations for the houses of Worth, Lanvin, Paquin, Doucet, Beer among others, cover work for Harpers Bazaar and the first cover for Vogue Magazine (Oct.1916, English edition), numerous commissions for fur, perfume and other luxury goods producers, illustrations for theatre programs (particularly for the Ballets Russes), -
Russel Patterson
was a celebrated and prolific American cartoonist, illustrator and scenic designer. Patterson’s art deco magazine illustrations helped develop and promote the idea of the 1920s and 1930s fashion style known as the flapper. -
Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby
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World War 2 started
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Germany begins bombing London in what was known as "The Blitz" in an attempt to weaken the British Royal Air Force
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Howard Scott
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Stevan Dohanos
was an artist and illustrator of the social realism school, best known for his Saturday Evening Post covers, and responsible for several of the Don't Talk set of World War II propaganda posters.He named Grant Wood and Edward Hopper as the greatest influences on his painting. -
Rolf Armstong
Armstrong's first cover was for Judge magazine in 1912. Subsequently, he painted covers for such periodicals as Pictorial Review, Screenland, College Humor, Puck, Metropolitan, Photoplay, Life, and The Saturday Evening Post. In 1919, Brown and Bigelow hired Armstrong to illustrate their calendars. Calendars featuring images of his models became some of the company's highest sellers. His genres were Fashion, pulb illustration and pinups -
World War 2 ended
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First atom bomb is dropped on Hiroshima; second world war ends
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Robert Crumb
is an American cartoonist and musician who often signs his work R. Crumb. His work displays a nostalgia for American folk culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and satire of contemporary American culture. -
Victor Moscoso
is a Spanish-American artist best known for producing psychedelic rock posters, advertisements, and underground comix in San Francisco during the 1960s and 1970s. -
Heinz Edelmann
was a German illustrator and designer. He was born in Ústí nad Labem, Czechoslovakia, into the Czech-German family of Wilhelm Edelmann and Josefa (née Kladivová) Edelmann. He was well known as an illustrator in Europe, but is probably most famous for his art direction and character designs for the Beatles' 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine. -
The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published
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Summer of Love: When the hippie movement was in full swing
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Man lands on the moon in Apollo 11
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The popular video arcade game "Pac-Man" is released.
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Frank Miller
is an American comic book writer, novelist, inker, screenwriter, film director, and producer best known for his comic book stories and graphic novels such as Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City and 300. -
Robert Heindel
Children's book illustration continued to grow as a field in the 1980s and showed a wide range of styles and content. In a strong economy illustrators could conduct fully active careers solely on income from children's publishers. -
Gary Panter
Gary Panter and other comics artists rose from the underground into the light of mainstream publishing as comics attracted a wider audience. The extended length comic narrative surged forward with the The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, a story that delved into the psychology of the most troubled of crime-fighting heroes, Batman, and led the way to other thoughtful and complex story-telling that would form the genre called the "graphic novel." -
Japan begins selling the first CD players
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Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris.
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Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire by JK Rowling is published, and becomes the fastest-selling book ever
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Brian Despain
Brian Despain has worked as a graphic designer, 3D modeler, photo-retoucher, and illustrator.He spent a ten-year span in the video game industry, working a majority of those years for Snowblind Studios in Seattle, Washington where he helped ship multiple titles and worked on many more unannounced projects. As of October,1999 Brian left a lucrative career in video games to pursue his own projects, working and writing full-time from his home studio. -
Andrey Gordeev
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Tim Burton
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911 Terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon kill nearly 3,000 people
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Nasa rover lands on Mars.
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