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Thought you might like to hear feedback regarding Pomegranate jig saw puzzles.
Several customers of Francis Iles in Rochester Kent commenting about the wonderful quality of the pieces, and also how reasonably priced they are..
And their not fibbing, over 30 titles and only £9.99!
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"Hollywood has a long screen tradition of casting popular singers in screen-acting roles. The 2 songs below were sung by 2 contemporary singers who also starred in the films which the songs came from. Can you name the films?"
'I Will Always Love You " -Whitney Houston
'We Don't Need Another Hero' - Tina Turner
EDWARD GOREY
Born in Chicago in 1925, Edward St. John Gorey reputedly began drawing at the age of eighteen months. Some time later, he was drafted into the army and assigned to the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. His job there, he says, was to test poison gas.
In 1950, Gorey saw his art in print for the first time--as the September cover for the "Harvard Advocate," his college publication, and endpapers for Merrill Moore's "Illegitimate Sonnets."
A founding member of the Poets Theater (with Frank O'Hara, V. R. Lang, John Ashbery, and Alison Lurie), Gorey designed sets for the first play the group presented--O'Hara's "Try, Try" (1951). Between 1953 and 1963, Gorey worked as a staff artist and art director for Doubleday and Random House. His "Doubtful Guest" was published by Diogenes Verlag of Zurich, the first of many of the artist's works to be published by that company. In 1965, Gorey held his first major exhibition at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California.
When Gorey's first anthology, "Amphigorey," was published in the early seventies, it was chosen by "The New York Times Book Review" as one of the five most noteworthy art books of the year. Gorey designed sets and costumes for the 1977 Broadway production of "Dracula." His costume design earned him a Tony award. In 1980, an animated sequence of Gorey's work was used for the first time on the PBS television show "Mystery!" Nineteen years later, the series and the sequence are still going strong.
Edward Gorey left New York for good in 1983. He lived in Massachusetts with six cats and continued to produce his darkly hilarious work until his death, April 15, 2000. Gorey's drawings are widely collected and exhibited at notorious institutions throughout the world.
Drawn from "Goreyography" by Henry Toledano (Word Play Publications, San Francisco, 1996).
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B. Kliban (1935-1990), was arguably the first to put now outrageously popular cat cartooning in the fore, the artist who opened up doors for the likes of Gary Larsen, Jim Davis, and others of feline-connected fame.
Kliban studied painting and design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and later at Cooper Union in New York City. In the mid 1950s, he travelled and painted in Europe for a couple years, spending so much time at the Uffizi in Florence that he said he felt as if he lived there. He kept a daily journal of watercolours of abstract heads; he drew incessantly and developed a masterful hand, especially as related to figure drawing. After he returned to the States, he mounted a motorcycle and road to the West Coast, arriving first in southern California and eventually settling in Marin County, north of San Francisco.
Determining after a short time that supporting himself as a painter was simply not feasible, Kliban took a variety of odd jobs, including one drawing showgirls at a club called Mr. Wonderful in San Francisco's "red-light" district. In his boredom at Mr. Wonderful's he began inventing satirical, biting, hilarious cartoons and drawing them on cocktail napkins. The cartoons offered a no-holds-barred look at every type of person and human situation--here Kliban offered his perspective on religion, on government, history, and more.
Responding to a 1962 ad in Playboy for contributions from cartoonists, Kliban was "discovered" by the magazine. Playboy entered into a long-standing relationship with Kliban, continuing to publish his work for the next thirty years.
So how did Cat enter the picture?
Kliban loved cats (no surprise there) and usually had several living with him. In the early '70s, four "stripers" were hanging out with Kliban, demanding his attention as he was doodling and thinking up ideas for Playboy. Kliban's editor at Playboy saw the drawings of cats that resulted from this "session" and asked permission to show them to a literary agent. A deal was made with a publisher and Cat was born to the world.
The first book (called simply, Cat) was published in 1975 and Kliban became an overnight cartoon sensation. This book was followed by seven other cartoon books--in which Cat's appearance was minimal--over the next several years. Colourful Cats followed, decorating a range of merc
handise from calendars and t-shirts to magnets, plush, and beach towels. Cat had become the ultimate cat to collect--an iconic image, trusted friend, and producer of, well, happiness.
Pomegranate publishes TONNES of Kliban product, request a catalogue and see for yourself.
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