I’m not gonna tell you again how much I love kid’s books and the styles of illustration that go along with them. You know. I will tell you that Mark Bodnar has a style reminiscent of the kid’s book style. Reminiscent because this is the kind of work that illustrations in kid’s books talk about after you’ve gone to bed. They sit around and mention to each other how great it would’ve been to be born as a Mark Bodnar piece. Each painting is beautifully rendered, with a light and shadow like something out of a Brueghel the Elder painting. It’s also obvious that he’s got a real understanding of cartoons as a medium, where the character’s body language and expression is so well understood that dialog is secondary. I am not even kidding, this guy is in my top ten, and has been for a long time. Fortunately for me, he’s got a new print out with Letter Pressed. There’s only 75 of them suckers, so try not to snatch ‘em all up before I can scrape together the requisite funding. And his blog mentions something about a cartoon with Cartoon Network (I think it’s Stan Bayou), but I haven’t seen hide nor hair of that one. Keep your eyes open, and focused directly on Mark. I mean, don’t stare him down or anything. That’s just rude.
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