Albert Dorne: Master Illustrator
Manuel Auad has been writing articles exploring and extolling the work of artists and illustrators since the early 1960s. In the mid-Nineties, Manuel established, Auad Publishing, with the express purpose of preserving the life's work of important and influential artists. After releasing three volumes featuring the comics and illustrations of Alex Toth-the first of which, the aptly-titled Toth, won the Eisner Award for "Best Comic Related Book”-Manuel has since published books on Jordi Bernet, Alex Niño and Franklin Booth, as well as a portfolio of Frank Brangwyn's Stations of the Cross.An award-winning artist and illustrator who once entertained readers as a nationally syndicated cartoonist, he's also the author of Robert Fawcett: The Illustrator's Illustrator and the host of the popular Illustration Art blog (www.illustrationblogspot.com). In his role as an art historian, work that lead the New York Times to dub him an "illustration scholar,” he's lectured and written articles on the work of Robert Fawcett, Bernie Fuchs and other notable American artists.