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A colourful comic strip with a grid of panels featuring a recurring character. The panels combine surreal illustrations with text, including a passage that reads “But eventually the aching yearning for home became unbearable.”

Exciting new work from up and coming illustration superstar David Biskup

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Date
6 January 2015

Anyone whose surname is a perfect cross between biscuit and cup surely has some sort of magic dwelling within them. London-based David Biskup’s work is a pleasing medley of intelligent, bean-like characters and immaculately chosen colour fades. Not content with making fantastic editorial work for the likes of (deep breath) The New York Times, WeTransfer, Wired, The Sunday Times Magazine, Le Monde Diplomatique (DE) and Computer Arts, David moonlights as a particularly impressive cartoonist. He creates innovative, well-designed comic strips depicting man’s struggle that even at his young age mirror the talent of people such as Jim Stoten or even Chris Ware, and I can’t wait to see some of his printed matter in the flesh.

A colourful illustration of a dense city skyline where people engage in surreal activities. Figures lounge on rooftops, swing from yellow cables and float between bright red, yellow and blue buildings.
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David Biskup: Usbek & Rica

A two-page comic strip titled “Remnant” featuring a series of colourful, grid-like panels. The story follows an elderly person through their daily routine, accompanied by text such as “Most mornings I wake and check the obit pages.”
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David Biskup: Remnant comic for Off Life

An illustration in three panels showing the creation of a figure. The first panel shows a finished figure with a halo and a cross necklace, while the next two show the figure as a series of colourful, abstract brushstrokes.
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David Biskup: Narrative.ly

A comic strip by David Biskup titled “Doubt” for Le Monde Diplomatique. A series of panels depicts a person accompanied by a large, pink, cloud-like creature representing their doubt. The story follows the pair through different seasons and relationships, ending with the person and the creature living together in a civil union.
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David Biskup: Doubt for Le Monde Diplomatique

A colourful illustration of a surreal landscape populated by figures with oversized, bulbous bodies. The people wander across rolling yellow hills under a bright blue sky with white clouds.
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David Biskup: Planadviser July/August 2014

A red book cover featuring a small illustration of a figure lying on a massage table. Below the image, black text reads “david biskup and newton’s first law of motion”.
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David Biskup: David Biskup and Newton’s First Law of Motion

An illustration of a person with a beard looking calm and content. Beside them, a six-panel sequence shows a hand navigating an iPod to select a track by “Philip Glass”.
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David Biskup: David Biskup and Newton’s First Law of Motion

A black and white comic strip across two pages. The panels depict a person imagining themselves as a famous singer, novelist and film director, accompanied by text such as “I am an important person”.
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David Biskup: David Biskup and Newton’s First Law of Motion

An open book showing two pages of a grid-based illustration in grey and black. The left page begins with the text “I SEE MYSELF RUNNING”, while the right page ends with “FEEL THE CONCRETE BENEATH MY FEET”. The remaining squares contain a series of abstract shapes, scribbles and simplified figures.
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David Biskup: David Biskup and Newton’s First Law of Motion

A newspaper op-ed from The New York Times dated 13 June 2014. The headline reads “Save the Frick Collection” above a column of text by David Masello.
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David Biskup: New York Times Op-Ed June 2014

An illustration of a grid-based comic titled “Silly Putty”. The panels feature a series of colourful, surreal vignettes and short narrative text following a character’s journey.
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David Biskup: Silly Putty

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Liv Siddall

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Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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