Archive for the ‘BREADLINE ART’ Category

BOARD STIFFS

Thursday, May 14th, 2009 Posted in BREADLINE ART |

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NINETY PERCENT OFF

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 Posted in BREADLINE ART |

[caption id="attachment_269" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Photo by David Lawrence © 2009"][/caption]

AN ACTUAL, ER, BREADLINE

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 Posted in BREADLINE ART |

Courtesy of artist-cartoonist Vanessa Davis comes this image from the Great Depression. “Apparently that’s my grandfather the cop” in the picture, says Davis. His name was Max Molishever, and he served in Manhattan’s 13th District. (This and other extraordinary images ...

FREEFALLIN’

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 Posted in BREADLINE ART |

[caption id="attachment_232" align="alignnone" width="474" caption="Illustration by Barry Blitt © 2009"][/caption]

BEATABLE

Monday, April 27th, 2009 Posted in BREADLINE ART |

[caption id="attachment_221" align="alignnone" width="337" caption="Photo by David Lawrence © 2009"][/caption]

“NOOO, TIM, NOT THE TARP!”

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 Posted in BREADLINE ART |

“Folks, it’s become a scarlet letter.” —Jamie Dimon, chief of JPMorgan Chase, on government funding for banks. Illustration courtesy of Mark Alan Stamaty. [caption id="attachment_201" align="alignnone" width="553" caption="Illustration by Mark Alan Stamaty © 2009"][/caption]

IS THIS DRAWING STILL RELEVANT NOW THAT THE DOW IS OVER 8,000?

Thursday, April 16th, 2009 Posted in BREADLINE ART |

Of course it is. This time a year ago, the Dow was well above 12,000. Cartoon, entitled “Bull Begets Bear,” courtesy of Breadline pal and occasional inflammateur Barry Blitt. [caption id="attachment_166" align="alignnone" width="565" caption="Illustration by Barry Blitt © 2009"][/caption]

SHUTTERED

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 Posted in BREADLINE ART |

[caption id="attachment_150" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Photo by David Lawrence © 2009"][/caption]

PANTSED

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 Posted in BREADLINE ART |

[caption id="attachment_143" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Photo by David Lawrence © 2009"][/caption]

AN UNRETIRED DRAWING

Thursday, April 9th, 2009 Posted in BREADLINE ART |

Here’s yet another disturbingly prescient old illustration from Ross MacDonald. “I drew this back in 1995 for one of the financial magazines; I’ve long forgotten which one,” he says. “I suspect I was taking my usual approach to illustrating dry ...