Now that you cite some examples, you're starting to sway me. Gives me more hope! Thanks Chris.

I remember thinking much the same thing after watching that doc. Though we still aren't seeing that. Hopefully soon.

Actually, Struzan did the illustrated Harry Potter posters. But I totally agree.

I would add one more. A beautiful, iconic movie poster that is actually illustrated by a master. Instead of something just shopped. I'm thinking of the great Drew Struzan.

This question assumes literacy on the part of politicians. So there is the first problem.

Seems like something from John Dies at the End/This Book is Full of Spiders or even Night vale.

Haven't thought about this book in a long time. But I do remember how cutting edge it was beyond any other comic at the time in the illustration process. Though, admittedly, I wasn't collecting every single title out there.

I particularly liked his explanation as to why film started being in color when it was just black and white for so long.

I read a blog post about that very subject. The writer thought of the ending like this...

That's exactly what I thought he was trying to do too.

We have anachronistic areas like that around the south half of the border between South Dakota and Minnesota. You'll be driving across the wide open prairie, broken up by the occasional riverbed. Then you come over a hill and see wind turbines for miles and miles. Especially cool to see at night when you realize that…

My first job was as an illustrator and I ran into the same thing. Hack artists were adored because they spent overtime doing what other artists could do in their 8 hour day.

I personally know people who seem to gloat about all the hours they work. If they were single, I would chalk it up to them not having anything else to do. Even if their work starts to suffer from it. But many of them had to marry and start a family young, get the big house and status symbol car early. So now, they are…

And that is the distinction I was wondering about. Which definitions of either were we talking about. I thought perhaps you meant 'free' market in the legal sales sense.

I'm agreeing with you that there is a demand. My concern is that I'm not sure it would end up on the "free market", but rather the "black market". And yes, I do understand that both of these terms can be sticky at best.

Agreed. But it seems like it was either one person's demand or it would have to end up on a black market somewhere.

I'm probably just being pedantic here, but if the thieves had been successful, wouldn't it have likely ended up on the black market?

I don't know if it's better. Sidenote: You're probably a cool person.

Easy.