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The Secret of Drawing - another masterpiece from the category of "unknown BBC and Co". Movies like How Music Works and BBC Design Rules. The film is not about how to learn to paint. It about the phenomenon of drawing. About its role in culture, in individual lives and in society.
Continuing the idea of Betty Edwards, the authors show that the painting - it's a skill, like reading and writing. And that in many situations it may play an equally important role in human life and in culture.

The illustrator Andrew Loomis is revered amongst artists - including comics superstar Alex Ross - for his mastery of figure drawing and his clean, realist style.

Ever since I learned about this on the internet and read its excerpt in the December 2009 issue of Playboy, I tried to search for its digital version. As luck would have it, I found the high quality scans of "Jojo" (he is also the scanner of the Walt Disney's Christmas Classics Vol. 1 Hardcover I had posted earlier) and here we are. Playboy bills it as "the world's most endearingly perverted storyteller's take" on the first book of the Bible, all 50 chapters of it. Considering the nature of R. Crumb's work (honestly and totally irreverent) and his stature (he is one of pioneers of underground comics gone mainstream) and considering the subject of his illustrations, I must say I do not intend to offend delicate and/or religious sensitivities; my only purpose is to present--and share--here what surely is a groundbreaking and landmark work in comic art. Oh, and please read R. Crumb's Introduction found in page 9 of this CBR--it's priceless. MATURE READERS.