I expect quite a few Chinese poets were also adept at calligraphy and ink brush painting.
― Aimless, Saturday, 1 February 2014 03:07 (ten years ago) link
Sparkle, isn't it - possibly best thing I've seen this year so far
― cardamon, Saturday, 1 February 2014 03:12 (ten years ago) link
there was a headline in the paper when a bunch of political fans came to see chomsky speak, something to the effect of, "Unsuspecting Chomsky Fans Trapped in Linguistics Lecture"
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 1 February 2014 03:15 (ten years ago) link
samuel morse was a painter and invented the morse code.
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 1 February 2014 03:22 (ten years ago) link
seriously, guys, read that amazing comic linked by cardamon above
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 1 February 2014 03:42 (ten years ago) link
Also: there's a guy called Stephen Tunney and he was in King Missile and I read a novel by him which was weird and kind of great
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 1 February 2014 03:43 (ten years ago) link
I've wanted to see something like that for so long. (xpost to cardamon)
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 1 February 2014 03:56 (ten years ago) link
I think he had a pretty good career as a photographer before his acting really took off didn't he?
I don't know the full story, but he's been doing photography since the early 1960s as a parallel career to his acting. He's very good at it. I used "visual art" to cover the photography and his painting and sculpture.
― Josefa, Saturday, 1 February 2014 04:00 (ten years ago) link
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, January 31, 2014 9:42 PM (11 minutes ago)
^^^, seriously, that's really good
― 330,003 Luftballons (WilliamC), Saturday, 1 February 2014 04:02 (ten years ago) link
if you guys like that comic, you should try to get your hands on this anthology where it's reprinted:http://driftlessareareview.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/new_comics_anthology.jpg
it's kind of great (and a little sad) that most of the artists there are still mainstays of the "best of" anthologies today. it also has an early chris ware contribution that's only 25% as depressing as modern chris ware!
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 1 February 2014 04:06 (ten years ago) link
actually i'm looking at that scan again and i might be mixing up this and the raw anthology, but it's still a good anthology!
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 1 February 2014 04:12 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I just thought it was interesting. When I first found out about his art I assumed that he was the typical famous actor who dabbled in something else, but actually he was quite an accomplished photographer before anyone really knew who he was as an actor. Obviously he had some roles pretty early on but he wasn't really famous until Easy Rider, right?
― wk, Saturday, 1 February 2014 04:26 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, supporting roles in two James Dean movies isn't bad, and some other stuff. But Easy Rider brings up another thing - he was also a director and a screenwriter, if we consider those separate art forms.
― Josefa, Saturday, 1 February 2014 04:49 (ten years ago) link
nice to see the reactions to "here". i think it's an amazing work, and testament to the possibilities of the comics artform.
― fit and working again, Saturday, 1 February 2014 05:10 (ten years ago) link
Need to get Black Hole and Like A Velvet Glove and all sorts of stuff like that.
― cardamon, Saturday, 1 February 2014 07:47 (ten years ago) link
Ice Cube - maybe the best rapper alive from 1990-1993; mostly in bad movies now but Friday is a stone classic and he was good in Boyz n the Hood & Three Kings.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 1 February 2014 08:12 (ten years ago) link
If Ive missed someone else sayig this sorry, but I cant help wonder if the better question is "people who excel at more than one discipline". Like, astrophysicists who are musicians, teachers who are tennis champs.
― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Saturday, 1 February 2014 08:28 (ten years ago) link
(my first example of course referred to Brian Cox, and Branwell will be all over that hee hee :D)
― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Saturday, 1 February 2014 08:29 (ten years ago) link
Brian MayTerry JonesMichael Palin
― President Frankenstein (kingfish), Saturday, 1 February 2014 08:52 (ten years ago) link
David Duchovny seems to've found things p easy
― a horse divided cannot stand (darraghmac), Saturday, 1 February 2014 10:32 (ten years ago) link
Leonora Carrington - surrealist artist & author, excelled at both imo
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 1 February 2014 11:52 (ten years ago) link
that isn't Here "in full" btw - the 1989 version has been under expansion over the last decade or so, for eventual book-length publication by Pantheon
(McGuire has also done lots of other graphic design and 3D design and toys and illustration and film, and two other comics, btw)
― (D1CK$) (sic), Saturday, 1 February 2014 12:13 (ten years ago) link
Klaus Voorman - bassist (Plastic Ono Band), visual artist (Revolver)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 1 February 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
Yeah Klaus rules, he should've been in the Beatles but it would have been too amazing even for a decade which concluded with the moon landing.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 1 February 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, February 1, 2014 11:52 AM (5 hours ago)
Can't believe I didn't think of this one.
― emil.y, Saturday, 1 February 2014 16:53 (ten years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr#Frequency-hopping_spread-spectrum_invention
― koogs, Saturday, 1 February 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
Reg Presley, musician and inventor:
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/feb/05/from-rocks-backpages-troggs-reg-presley"Reg, however, has another string to his bow: in 1974 he designed and patented for a year an automatic fog-warning device. When the patent expired, the system was adopted for the end of the runway at Heathrow..."
― koogs, Saturday, 1 February 2014 18:05 (ten years ago) link
Oh Carrington is a good one! Was trying to think of some of the multi-disciplinary surrealists, I know I enjoyed De Chirico's novel but it would be pushing it to claim literary greatness.
― keiji cretins (NickB), Saturday, 1 February 2014 18:06 (ten years ago) link
DH Lawrence's paintings were pretty good
― keiji cretins (NickB), Saturday, 1 February 2014 18:10 (ten years ago) link
Hermann Hesse too
― keiji cretins (NickB), Saturday, 1 February 2014 18:12 (ten years ago) link
Ha, didn't know that about Reg Presley! That's so cool!
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 1 February 2014 18:13 (ten years ago) link
Also Tom Scholz, musician (Boston) and inventor (the Rockman).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 1 February 2014 18:15 (ten years ago) link
noam chomsky (linguistics, political theory)
computer science too
― Allen (etaeoe), Saturday, 1 February 2014 18:15 (ten years ago) link
Louis CK comedian + filmmaking
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 February 2014 18:18 (ten years ago) link
I think it's fair to claim mathematics as a humanity, so, John von Neumann.
― Allen (etaeoe), Saturday, 1 February 2014 18:19 (ten years ago) link
was going to log in and offer von neumann earlier
― a horse divided cannot stand (darraghmac), Saturday, 1 February 2014 19:45 (ten years ago) link
Billy Childish, super-prolific garage band musician, plus good painter/woodcut-maker in a bit of german expressionist style. http://www.billychyldish.com/billy_chyldish/home.html
― pauls00, Saturday, 1 February 2014 22:51 (ten years ago) link
one more vote for that comic is great
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 1 February 2014 22:54 (ten years ago) link
Vanessa Mae (violinist, olympic skier) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa-Mae#Olympic_career
which reminds me:Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden, fencing, commercial pilot, author) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_dickinson#Other_work
― koogs, Saturday, 8 February 2014 13:20 (ten years ago) link
McGuire's "Here", which was in one of the Raw Vol 2 digests, was huge, and there's a chris ware strip that came later that he admits is a homage/rip to that. I think that above New Comic Anthology got destroyed in the reviews when it came out...really bad reproductions and weird stuff like taking what was originally and amazing Gary Panter spread and breaking it over two back to back pages. Maybe I'm thinking of a different collection though.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 8 February 2014 17:13 (ten years ago) link
Speaking of Dickinson, Pere Ubu's Allen Ravenstine is also a commercial pilot.
xp
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 8 February 2014 17:22 (ten years ago) link
some more writers/visual artists: strindberg, hans arp, henri michaux
― no lime tangier, Sunday, 9 February 2014 02:37 (ten years ago) link
also if you count his films: robbe-grillet
― no lime tangier, Sunday, 9 February 2014 02:39 (ten years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pdFG93jw1LI/SoYuUmfp7mI/AAAAAAAAFww/EtieeWUYU6k/s400/cmurder%2Bbook%2Bcover.jpg
― dylannn, Sunday, 9 February 2014 02:42 (ten years ago) link
& from nz, film/kinetic sculpturalist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Lye (also music sort of since there was a release of the sounds made by his sculptures awhile back)
― no lime tangier, Sunday, 9 February 2014 03:32 (ten years ago) link
I like Thurber's drawn cartoons, does that count?
― drash, Sunday, 9 February 2014 03:48 (ten years ago) link
New Comic Anthology got destroyed in the reviews when it came out...really bad reproductions and weird stuff like taking what was originally and amazing Gary Panter spread and breaking it over two back to back pages. Maybe I'm thinking of a different collection though.
You're not. It's horrible, and some of the terrible repro is down to Callahan str8 bootlegging stories
― (D1CK$) (sic), Sunday, 9 February 2014 13:00 (ten years ago) link
You wouldn't know him, but Ville Pirinen is one of the best known, most distinctive Finnish comic artists to have debuted in the 90s:
http://www.bananapress.fi/images/kuvat/s2055B.jpg
http://www.kvaak.fi/images/articles/29092005204338-1.jpg
But he also has a music career as a guitarist and singer, most notably in the bands Black Audio and Steel Mammoth, and as a solo artist called "Garfield Steel":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfocVppi7hM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2PbBVBb8y8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFoz-EvalAY
What's remarkable is that his two careers are almost completely separate: the comic fans don't know him as "that musician", nor the music fans as "that comic book guy". Personally, I'd dug his comics for years before I found out that he's a musician too, as the sort of rock records he produces aren't my thing.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 9 February 2014 18:50 (ten years ago) link
Takeshi Kitano!
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Sunday, 9 February 2014 18:55 (ten years ago) link
I don't remember the panter spread in new comics anthology, but the reproductions are at least on par with current anthologies, Or even better! (I saw a recent "best of" anthology with weird moire patterns from scanning)
Gary Panter is a good dual art example though.
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 9 February 2014 19:08 (ten years ago) link