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Courtesy of The Getty The Art War Waged During the Great War
Two museums commemorate World War I with exhibits showcasing both the patriotic and dissenting imagery that brought the battlefield to the home front.
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Dark Horse Comics The Immortal Mortal Appeal of the Skull
A new book celebrates the morbid motif's 20th-century resurgence on the covers of comic books, pulp fiction, and other paperbacks.
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Hieronymus Bosch/Wikimedia Hieronymus Bosch, the Trendiest Apocalyptic Medieval Painter of 2014
The Garden of Earthly Delights is now on leggings, in children's books, and getting name-checked by cool bands. Why?
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chispita_666/Flickr How Board Games Conquered Cafes
As social life gets ever more digital, new coffee shops and bars encourage face-to-face interaction via the likes of Settlers of Catan and Connect Four.
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Fantagraphics Books Comics for the Youth Movement, Not for Kids
A new history of Zap Comix celebrates how the lascivious, tongue-in-cheek cartoons revolted against conservative Cold War-era mores.
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Ubisoft Let Them Play Assassin's Creed?
With sympathetic noblemen and bloodthirsty common folk, the French Revolution-set Unity is re-igniting an historic debate over the period's heroes and villains.
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Third Man Records A Great American Record Company Gets Its Due
Two lush, retro box sets celebrate Paramount Records, a company that never understood its own artistic significance.
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Ammo Press A Modernist Master, for Kids
The classic illustrator of how-to-draw guides and picture books, Ed Emberley's works are preserved for the first time in a colorful new monograph.
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Barokas Public Relations Redesigning the Social Network
There's an artistic vision behind Ello, the latest Facebook competitor to trigger hype and backlash.
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Courtesy of the London Museum Sherlock Holmes, Unlikely Style Icon
The detective's iconic tweeds, robes, and deerstalker hat came from the imaginations of illustrators and filmmakers far more than from Arthur Conan Doyle himself.
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The Palestinian Museum Bridging Cultures With a Text Bubble
The Palestinian Museum's new logo transforms the comic-book standby into a bilingual symbol of the Arab-Palestinian diaspora.
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Lucas Jackson/Reuters Oscar de la Renta's All-American Fashion Revolution
The designer, now dead at 82, legitimized U.S. style in the eyes of the world.
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Roads Publishing Bat Boy, Hillary Clinton's Alien Baby, and a Tabloid's Glorious Legacy
A new collection gathers the greatest hits of The Weekly World News, a fantastical checkout-counter standby until 2007.
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Alice Mizrachi/Ginko Press Street Art's Momentary Protest, Made Permanent
There's a political bent to photographer Yoav Litvin's new book that chronicles New York's most ephemeral art.
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Smithsonian Press Buttons, Pants, and Beds: An Illustrator's Favorite Things
Maira Kalman's latest colorful, strange works riff on curiosities uncovered in a design museum.
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Pantheon The One-Room Time Machine
Richard McGuire's innovative 1989 comic strip Here, depicting one location over centuries, returns as a museum exhibition and book.
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Courtesy of Bard Graduate Center 50 Years of Reinventing Illustration
Barbara Nessim's striking designs get their due with a New York exhibition.
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Mirko Ilic Ladies Justice and Liberty, Lesbians
Ten years ago, illustrator Mirko Ilic combined three visual cliches to create a fresh, enduring emblem for gay marriage.
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Jim Kerlin/AP The Midi Skirt, Divider of Nations
The demure look returning to runways this year once sparked a cultural uprising as it edged out the mini and angered feminists.
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Courtesy of Stephen Alcorn The 4th Beatle of Graphic Design
A member of an influential illustration clique that defined the hippy era, John Alcorn is being rediscovered.
