I suspect that if Sándor Reisenbüchler had been French, say, rather than Hungarian his animated films might be better known today. Panic (1979), like Moon Flight (1975), is another of his short exercises in Pop-art science fiction, a rush through a series of vivid and hyperactive scenes where everything is flattened and stylised, often to a point of abstraction. Panic…

Phelim O'Neill: This unassuming, multitalented film-maker, who has died aged 63, was best known as the brain behind Alien. But he was so much more

Futurama co-creator David X. Cohen and supervising director Peter Avanzino discuss how the series has maintained its visual identity for almost 30 years.

These are actually La Fontaine's fables illustrated by a British artist, Percy J. Billinghurst, but I try to avoid unwieldly post titles that mix artist and writer. There isn't much of a biographical record for Percy Billinghurst, and what records there are don't agree about his birth and death dates which are generally given as 1871—1933. One thing that is certain is Billinghurst's fondness for drawing animals.

Slinger Francisco, who performed as the Mighty Sparrow, died on Sunday surrounded by family in New York

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Mushroom Lady poster (1967) by East Totem West. • “I want to be able to hear the process happening throughout the sounding music.” Composer Steve Reich talks to Flora Willson about his long career. More Reich: live performances from 1976 by Steve Reich and Musicians of Six Pianos and Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices And Organ. • At Aeon: …

Here in The North the weather is slowly turning against the wearing of T-shirts outdoors but this week I've made a new shirt available based on an old design. The first Cthulhu Labyrinth came about when I was putting together pages for a Cthulhu calendar in 2012. In the end it didn't get used for the calendar but the design stuck around even though I was never entirely satisfied with it.

MCR's hotel proposal puts facility on a lower building, while public access to upper floors set to be restored

Hungarian artist István Orosz has directed fifteen short animated films to date, and co-directed three more, yet he's known more for his drawings than his films, especially those works which follow MC Escher by combining a careful graphic technique with an exploration of optical illusion. Orosz's artistic interests naturally extend to his animations which have never been easy to see online despite so many of them being relatively recent productions.

Boris Artzybasheff's art was rediscovered in the 1980s by a new generation of American cartoonists who were delighted by his illustrations of anthropomorphic machinery and other technological artefacts. These were the illustrations which made Artzybasheff popular with advertisers and the commissioners of magazine covers in the 1940s and 50s, and their continued popularity today has tended to overshadow his earlier book illustrations, in the same way that W.

Exhibition poster, 1970. • RIP Peter Max, an artist who made the popular manifestations of psychedelic graphics near-synonymous with his own name which was always typeset and prominently displayed with a copyright symbol on his printed creations. Max's formulation of the artist-as-brand was so extensive he makes those who attempted similar things look like slackers. Even Salvador Dalí didn't have his own…

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Previous posts about illustrators. • Harry Clarke’s Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen • Paul Woodroffe’s Tempest • BWS and REH • The art of Atelier Heinrichs & Bachmann • The a…