#thomas woodruff

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Thomas Woodruff

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Thomas Woodruff

[disease]

THE SECRET CHARTS - FIG. P THOMAS WOODRUFF // 1994-95 [acrylic on linen | 28 × 24"]

[marejadilla]

Thomas Woodruff, "Nydia", from "The Dinosaur Variatons", acrylic on canvas. Thomas Woodruff was born in New Rochelle N.Y. in 1957, is best known for his imaginative and intricately detailed paintings.

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[nickmarino]

Thomas Woodruff is a former SVA professor who was the head of both the illustration and cartooning programs for years. His abuse and derogatory treatment of students is well documented and extensive. He's been nominated for four Eisner awards this year, despite his outward disdain for comics and excessive efforts to push students away from the art form.

Some wonderful people have started a petition to remove Woodruff and his book from the Eisner ballot, and you can sign it here.

The following is just taste of Woodruff's terrible impact on SVA students over the years, all posted online before his Eisner noms were announced...

"Had a habit of casual racist comments about East Asian students."

"Enjoys making students cry, enjoys inflicting harm on students verbally."

"Woodruff is so narcissistic, racist, belittling, and down right vulgar."

"Head of the illustration major was Thomas Woodruff, who is the most racist."

"He doesn't even bother to hide his disdain for the comics medium, he has no knowledge of it or its history."

[judgeitbyitscover]

The General in his Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Cover art by Thomas Woodruff

Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First American Edition translated by Edith Grossman

General Simon Bolivar, “the Liberator” of five South American countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the Magdalena River, revisiting cities along its shores, and reliving the triumphs, passions, and betrayals of his life. Infinitely charming, prodigiously successful in love, war and politics, he still dances with such enthusiasm and skill that his witnesses cannot believe he is ill. Aflame with memories of the power that he commanded and the dream of continental unity that eluded him, he is a moving exemplar of how much can be won—and lost—in a life.

[psikonauti]

Thomas Woodruff (American, b. 1957)

White Stag, 2002/2007

Archival pigment print; swarovski crystals