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Esteban Serrano’s #Dante2018 Illustrations

September 6, 2019 By Alexa Kellenberger FSU '22

Esteban Serrano is a designer and cartoonist, and also goes by Cien Perros online. During the #Dante2018 collective reading on social media, Serrano created a cartoon for each canto of the Divine Comedy. The artwork above are a few of Serrano’s illustrations. Clockwise from the top right is an illustration for Paradiso 26,  an illustration for Purgatorio 29, an illustration for Inferno 34, and an illustration for Inferno 24.

You can see all of Serrano’s illustrations for the Divine Comedy on Medium.

To check out more of Serrano’s artwork, you can follow him on Instagram and Twitter.

See other posts related to #Dante2018 here.

Contributed by Pablo Maurette (Florida State University)

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: #Dante2018, 2018, Argentina, Art, Artists, Buenos Aires, Cartoons, Illustrations, Inferno, Paradiso, Purgatorio, Social Media

Cartoonist Steve Bell’s “Brexit Hell”

December 31, 2018 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

Steve-Bell-Brexit-Hell-Cartoons-TreacheryIn early December 2018 British cartoonist Steve Bell published a series of Dante-inspired images in his If… cartoon strip. Adapting Doré’s illustrations of Cocytus (with one addition from the Malebolge), Bell’s cartoons comment on the Parliamentary Debate over Brexit. Contributor Nick Havely glosses, “[the cartoons] depict Theresa May’s journey through ‘Brexit Hell’ accompanied by Arlene Foster (leader of the N. Ireland ultra-Protestant DUP on whom May is dependent for her majority). The Dantean sequence began on 29 November and seems to have culminated last Thursday [6 December] in an encounter with Trump as Lucifer.”

The If… cartoons can be viewed on The Guardian‘s website at the following links: Nov 29, Dec 3, Dec 4, Dec 5, and Dec 6.

Contributed by Nick Havely

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2018, Cartoons, Cocytus, Donald Trump, England, Gustave Doré, Humor, Political Leaders, Politics, Satire, Theresa May

New England Winter Hell

October 27, 2018 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

new-england-circles-of-winter-hell-2016This cartoon by Beth Wolfensberger Singer summarizes the struggles of New Englanders during the winter season.

“Beth Wolfensberger Singer is a Boston-based artist. Her comics appear on her blog, ambitionectomy.tumblr.com.” — Singer, Boston Globe, December 16, 2016

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2016, Art, Boston, Cartoons, Comics, Humor, Illustrations, Massachusetts

Nuggets’ Ninth Circle of Hell

July 24, 2018 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

nuggets-ninth-circle-hell-alaskan-inferno-solstice

Posted on the blog Ink & Snow (December 21, 2012).

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2012, Alaska, Cartoons, Ice, Inferno, Ninth Circle, Web Comics

Art Young’s Political Cartoons

December 14, 2017 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

Art-Young-Music-in-Hell-Dante-Inferno
“The Music in Hell,” from Art Young’s Inferno

“Young published three different books inspired by Dante’s Inferno. Hell Up to Date: The Reckless Journey of R. Palasco Drant, Newspaper Correspondent, Through the Infernal Regions, As Reported by Himself was his first book, published in 1894. Its success led to Through Hell with Hiprah Hunt, in 1901.

“Art Young’s Inferno: A Journey Through Hell Six Hundred Years After Dante, published in 1934, is considered one of Young’s masterpieces.” — Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman, “Art Young: A Cartoonist for the Ages,” The New Yorker, August 2, 2017

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 1894, 1901, 1934, 2017, Cartoons, Inferno, Politics

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