prismatic

Love this comment. Had never thought about Bluey and Oulipo in the same sentence before, but you're definitely on to something.

Agreed. My three-year-old's favorite episode, by far. Realizing how artistically ambitious and just plain good Bluey is has been an interesting lesson in how kids actually do have good taste/interesting preferences as long as you don't bombard them with the Cocomelons of the world.

My daughter likes to say "that makes me happy... and sad!" at the end of a particularly artistic episode, like Sleepytime, the wordless one where it rains, or the final episode ("The Sign" - the Citizen Kane of children's television).

The PDR article doesn't mention any link between them, but Clarke's illustrations look very influenced by Aubrey Beardsley to me. I find both interesting as examples of the kind of thing that minimalist/modernist aesthetics both destroyed and grew out of (in the sense that Beardsley and Clarke both display the Victorian horror vacui and love of ornamentation, but also experiment with huge swathes of empty space):

http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/clarke/decadent...