Klaus
@klaustoon.bsky.social
Architectural cartoonist, PhD, MDesS, aging Professor of Architectural Theory and History. Bourgeois anarcho-syndicalist https://klaustoon.wordpress.com/
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Klaus
@klaustoon.bsky.social
· Nov 23
#comics, #cartoons, #architecture, & the #scifi #city. | Also, the cartoon was made repurposing some material from the unpublished short story 'X-Esia, a tale of the Pneumatic passage' Here are pages 3-4 | Cartoon for @Arquine #108: 'Suelos/Grounds (June 2024). #klaussketches #ThePneumaticPassage
Mark Strong is great in this.
December 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Mark Strong is great in this.
Untold architectural histories now being told.
December 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Untold architectural histories now being told.
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Young Shadow teams up with the Watchdogs in a do-or-die baseball game against a roster of ghosts and ghoulies! Will Bolt City survive? Young Shadow & the Watchdogs by Ben Sears is out 4/7/26! https://ow.ly/mSyk50XxKFH
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Young Shadow teams up with the Watchdogs in a do-or-die baseball game against a roster of ghosts and ghoulies! Will Bolt City survive? Young Shadow & the Watchdogs by Ben Sears is out 4/7/26! https://ow.ly/mSyk50XxKFH
For those who do not know what the joke's all about (in case there are any left at this point): on Blade Runner's 'T-shirt wars'. whatculture.com/film/20-thin...
November 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
For those who do not know what the joke's all about (in case there are any left at this point): on Blade Runner's 'T-shirt wars'. whatculture.com/film/20-thin...
Today is #RidleyScott's 88th birthday (b. 1937). I think I've only drawn him once, together with #Alien, Zorglub, and a bunch of architects, back in 2010 for the ephemeral
New City Reader. Anyway, here we go: happy birthday, Sir R.S.! klaustoon.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/t...
New City Reader. Anyway, here we go: happy birthday, Sir R.S.! klaustoon.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/t...
November 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Today is #RidleyScott's 88th birthday (b. 1937). I think I've only drawn him once, together with #Alien, Zorglub, and a bunch of architects, back in 2010 for the ephemeral
New City Reader. Anyway, here we go: happy birthday, Sir R.S.! klaustoon.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/t...
New City Reader. Anyway, here we go: happy birthday, Sir R.S.! klaustoon.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/t...
Voy a aprovechar la oportunidad que me brindan para recuperar esto.
Actualizando los clásicos.
[Viñeta original: “O nosotros o el caos”, de Ramón (Ramón Gutiérrez Díaz), Hermano Lobo, nº 169, 2 de agosto de 1975].
[Viñeta original: “O nosotros o el caos”, de Ramón (Ramón Gutiérrez Díaz), Hermano Lobo, nº 169, 2 de agosto de 1975].
November 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Voy a aprovechar la oportunidad que me brindan para recuperar esto.
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Cry me a roman-fleuve.
Go read a book.
November 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Cry me a roman-fleuve.
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#architecture #cartoons. New Post: "Klaus in ‘Archisatire’ Exhibition" klaustoon.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/k...
November 27, 2025 at 11:44 AM
#architecture #cartoons. New Post: "Klaus in ‘Archisatire’ Exhibition" klaustoon.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/k...
#comics, #architecture & the #city: Here, Dick Moores's rendition of the whole Gas Neighborhood from Frank King's 'Gasoline Alley' (1918--). Below, the whole cast on occasion of Skeezix's birthday. tcj.com/growing-old-...
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
#comics, #architecture & the #city: Here, Dick Moores's rendition of the whole Gas Neighborhood from Frank King's 'Gasoline Alley' (1918--). Below, the whole cast on occasion of Skeezix's birthday. tcj.com/growing-old-...
#Comics, #Space & #Architecture: Feeling lazy today, so, I'm gonna bluit: lemme recover this from the vault my two favorite pages from “Dancing about Architecture”, in Thresholds (MIT Press) #46: Scatter! (2017) [ed. by Eliyahu Keller & Anne Graziano]. klaustoon.wordpress.com/2018/09/03/d...
November 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
#Comics, #Space & #Architecture: Feeling lazy today, so, I'm gonna bluit: lemme recover this from the vault my two favorite pages from “Dancing about Architecture”, in Thresholds (MIT Press) #46: Scatter! (2017) [ed. by Eliyahu Keller & Anne Graziano]. klaustoon.wordpress.com/2018/09/03/d...
In "A Satire of Institutional Boredom: Saul Steinberg’s Smithsonian Portfolio (1967)", for RA #27, Andreea Mihalache examines Steinberg’s perhaps lesser-known collection of drawings made on the Smithsonian's stationery while in Washington DC in 1967.
Read it here: revistas.unav.edu/index.php/re...
Read it here: revistas.unav.edu/index.php/re...
November 26, 2025 at 11:40 AM
In "A Satire of Institutional Boredom: Saul Steinberg’s Smithsonian Portfolio (1967)", for RA #27, Andreea Mihalache examines Steinberg’s perhaps lesser-known collection of drawings made on the Smithsonian's stationery while in Washington DC in 1967.
Read it here: revistas.unav.edu/index.php/re...
Read it here: revistas.unav.edu/index.php/re...
"You'll be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
"You'll be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
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The Spirit, Will Eisner. #Noirvember
November 8, 2025 at 7:23 AM
The Spirit, Will Eisner. #Noirvember
Now that @edicioneslacupula.bsky.social has put out Gerry Alanguilan's 'Elmer' (in Spanish), let me recover one of my favorite illustrations by this great illustrator, inker AND ARCHITECT. | #comics, #architecture & the #city: Gerry Alanguilan: 'Homage to Will Eisner'.
November 24, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Now that @edicioneslacupula.bsky.social has put out Gerry Alanguilan's 'Elmer' (in Spanish), let me recover one of my favorite illustrations by this great illustrator, inker AND ARCHITECT. | #comics, #architecture & the #city: Gerry Alanguilan: 'Homage to Will Eisner'.
#ThePneumaticPassage: Ok, kickstarting the blueiting day with the final form of 'Ospedalis', for Arquine magazine #114: 'Care' (which continues my exploitation of unbuilt visionary projects with Corb's 1964-70 Hospital in Venice) #klaussketches #architecture, #city #comics & #metaphysical #scifi 5/n
November 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
#ThePneumaticPassage: Ok, kickstarting the blueiting day with the final form of 'Ospedalis', for Arquine magazine #114: 'Care' (which continues my exploitation of unbuilt visionary projects with Corb's 1964-70 Hospital in Venice) #klaussketches #architecture, #city #comics & #metaphysical #scifi 5/n
#architecture #cartoons: Ok, last one: here's what the bottom half of this thing looked like when almost inked. || A pic taken while drawing a #scifi #city in my piece for Arquine #98: 'Death of the Street' (2021) #klaussketches #makecomics
November 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
#architecture #cartoons: Ok, last one: here's what the bottom half of this thing looked like when almost inked. || A pic taken while drawing a #scifi #city in my piece for Arquine #98: 'Death of the Street' (2021) #klaussketches #makecomics
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Ah, so it seems I took a bunch of these: #scifi #architecture #cartoons: Some apparently sunny Sunday mid-day inking from my piece for #Arquine #98: 'Death of the Street', from 2021 #klaussketches #makecomics #SundayMorning
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Ah, so it seems I took a bunch of these: #scifi #architecture #cartoons: Some apparently sunny Sunday mid-day inking from my piece for #Arquine #98: 'Death of the Street', from 2021 #klaussketches #makecomics #SundayMorning
#architecture #cartoons: Going through my hard drives, I found these nightly inks from 'Roahesia', a #scifi #city I drew back i in the day for my contribution to #Arquine #98: 'Death of the Street' #klaussketches #makecomics #SundayMorning
November 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
#architecture #cartoons: Going through my hard drives, I found these nightly inks from 'Roahesia', a #scifi #city I drew back i in the day for my contribution to #Arquine #98: 'Death of the Street' #klaussketches #makecomics #SundayMorning
For no other reason than this being a lazy Sunday morning, let me share this very crappy pic of a page in my #sketchbook that I just found perusing my phone. The ships in it have been shamelessly copied from @yokubarimodeler's amazing twitter TL. #klaussketches
November 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
For no other reason than this being a lazy Sunday morning, let me share this very crappy pic of a page in my #sketchbook that I just found perusing my phone. The ships in it have been shamelessly copied from @yokubarimodeler's amazing twitter TL. #klaussketches
Barry Windsor Smith.
November 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Barry Windsor Smith.