Wild Cycles

Toti Scialoja

During next week, Firenze is going to be invaded by the World Cycling Championship.

While we citizens are feeling apprehensive since it's not clear how and if we're going to be able

 to move around and get to work, given that many of the races pass right through the center of the city,

at least the event has pushed the mayor to give us more bike lanes and newly asphalted roads.

I really hope it's going to be an interesting and fun experience for all...  

Happy Cycling!

1903 postcard biking pup wackystuff

Barbara Cooney, Where have you been?, 1952

 Paul Galdone, Anatole, 1957

Károly Reich, The How Many Book, 1972

Kristyna Litten

Jan Kuiper, Vis a Vis, 1962, thanks to Arthur van Kruining

Pikku Dot

Regina Lukk-Toompere

Peter Cross

Mique Morichi

Matte Stephens

Alyssa Nassner

Claudia Palmarucci

Coco de Paris

Edward Gorey

Gus Gordon

Margherita Micheli

Amy Dover

Sebastiano Ranchetti

Natsuo Ikegami

Puikeprent

Rob Dunlavey

Sophie Fatus

Thereza Rowe

Fun with Appliances

Peter Gut is a Swiss typographer, illustrator and caricaturist based in Winterthur. 

He has collaborated for years with the weekly magazine Facts, and today works for Weltwoche,

the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the business magazine Bilanz. Gut also designs book covers and

 has illustrated the children's book Der Bär auf dem Försterball. I recently discovered his work

thanks to my daughter Michelle, who bought me the postcard above. His surreal and whimsical humour

 and artistic style are in a similar vein to the great Michael Sowa, who I haven't posted so far 

only because he's already quite famous, and Roberto Perini. These pictures are part of the book

Tierisch unter Strom, which explores a series of funny and creative interactions 

between different animals and various appliances and machines.

 You can also find them as postcards via Incognito.

Sun and Ice

This 1936 cartoon by Olga Khodatayeva was one of the first produced at the great 

Russian studio Soyuzmultfilm. It's story is based on one of the many Eskimo legends 

and rituals celebrating the return of the sun after two months of winter darkness. 

Many thanks to Niffiwan for the upload!