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UNPUBLISHED DRAWINGS OF NYC FROM A FEW YEARS AGO - PART 1
Posted: Tue, 21 May 2013 06:21:02 EDT
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Chan Chu and The Peaches of Imortality...
Posted: Mon, 20 May 2013 18:40:36 EDT
Every year for as long as I can remember.... the first thing I do on January 1st is to write Jim Burke and see if I can again talk my way onto the line up for Dellas Graphics Calendar. Always (so far) he has reluctantly conceded. This year we had been in the city for the shows at SI and were walking around looking for those great little shops only New York has, when I stumbled on a window that had a huge statue of Chan Chu. Chan Chu, or Jin Chan was the wife of a little known...
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15 influences
Posted: Mon, 20 May 2013 14:21:48 EDT
I thought I would dive in and take the Yuko Shimizu challenge. Unlike the others I'm going to limit my selections to specifically collage influences. To include painters and drawers and music and movies and radio and cartoonists and comics and caricaturists and animators and people I've met along the way would be an impossibility. There are just too many in each category and sub-category ad infinitum. As John Lennon famously said, "you see we're influenced by...
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Everyman
Posted: Mon, 20 May 2013 13:58:41 EDT
These images are from a sporadic project inspired by the timeless theme of The Folly of Man. As Bruegel's archtypical depiction of the fool or everyman (Eyke) used popular 16th century visual devises to convey meaning through mataphor, this version is contemporarily similar but intentionally less direct. Perhaps it's the fatigue induced by the illustrator's requirement to "illustrate", most often through established metaphors, or maybe it's the magnitude and...
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Dead Snake Handlers - and Sex
Posted: Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:16 EDT
Out of the entire story, there was this one scene in the book where the main character was having a sort of 'wet dream' about a mysterious snake handler that was helping her out on her property while she is working on her house. A mysterious man; snakes; sex - you can do the math on this one. I decided to go for it with my sketches and Irene went with it. A few of them might have been a bit overt but sometimes, you have to take a chance and see what sticks.
This piece is a...
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Home
Posted: Mon, 20 May 2013 13:17:48 EDT
Recently, I’ve been thinking about the meaning of the word “home.” It’s probably because Mikee and I have started looking for a place to buy. Our search is only several weeks new, but so far we’ve seen about twenty units and counting, mostly coops in various parts of Brooklyn, and until recently, we believe that we may be interested in one particular apartment. This is not a love-at-first-sight scenario. The space we’re offering a bid on is very...
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King Arthur on Pluto. Chapter 35, Out of Control!
Posted: Sat, 18 May 2013 00:25:49 EDT
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Washington Post / Capital Business
Posted: Thu, 16 May 2013 18:04:44 EDT
Meredith Bowen at Capital Business / Washington Post assigned this one. It was my first time working with her, and when asked how she came across my work she mentioned Drawger. A big thanks to Meredith for the project, who was great to collaborate with!
The article was about: "...focus on the company’s evolution – how the algorithm that inputs all of these things and spits out a steady stream of useable information and trends..." Seems...
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Dr. Tim O'Brien ~ !
Posted: Thu, 16 May 2013 17:10:05 EDT
I fondly remember my parents buying me magic markers and large spiral pads. I would open to a white page and feel an excitement and an anxiety. A white page was and still is, akin to turning on a television. I might happen upon a thrilling program, one I had not planned on seeing, or I find it a frustrating waste of time. Many of my old pads from my youth have an attempted portrait, violently scribbled over and then the page is turned. I wanted to be able...
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Vertigo
Posted: Thu, 16 May 2013 13:26:12 EDT
It's been a rough week for Obama. I imagine he must suddenly be feeling a sense of vertigo, falling from such great heights in such a short span of time. I've been watching Hitchcock movies lately and I thought this shot of Jimmy Stewart would translate the moment well.
There have been some terrific illustrations using Hitchcock as source material. Here's Tim O'Brien's from a few years ago using the same shot from Vertigo. I think this was for Entertainment...
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Extremely grateful . . .
Posted: Wed, 15 May 2013 20:10:40 EDT
. . . to the judges at the Society of Publication Designers for the 2013 Silver Medal in spot series and other medals of merit for my work this past year. Freelance artists value the feedback . . . especially this kind! Thanks to the judges: Jordan Awan, The New Yorker; Sergio Baradat, United Nations Postal Administration; Chad W. Beckerman, Abrams; Joele Cuyler, Real Simple; Jennifer Daniel, Bloomberg Businessweek; Grace Lee, Priest + Grace;...
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I was a Garbage Pail Kid
Posted: Wed, 15 May 2013 18:39:33 EDT
In 1986 I was broke. Mark Newgarden hired me to come up with ideas for Garbage Pail Kids at fifty bucks a pop. I don't remember how many fronts I contributed but I did a lot of gags for the backs with Mark. For fifty bucks a day Mark would have me come out to Topps in Brooklyn to sit with him and crack jokes. Some would become gags for the backs of the cards/stickers but mostly I think Mark was lonely out there at Topps all by himself and would invite friends on the pretext of...
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The BAFFLER
Posted: Wed, 15 May 2013 01:10:18 EDT
The BAFFLER # 22 has recently just been published and I have a few illustrations in it for an article about Silicon Valley Media Meister Tim O'Reilly titled The Meme Hustler. Patrick J B Flynn of course is the Ad and designer, could there be a better guy to work for? It was a long article and Patrick wanted to pepper the piece with lots of little spots that played off points in the piece. So I produced a number of collages in black and white, adding color on the computer. He got...
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Posted: Tue, 14 May 2013 21:21:20 EDT
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Maggie Pickard - Memorial Service June 2nd
Posted: Tue, 14 May 2013 17:49:46 EDT
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The Cloud
Posted: Mon, 13 May 2013 21:58:13 EDT
I went to Los Angeles last week, was picked up at LAX by my amazing nephew Anthony. After dropping off stuff at the hotel, we headed straight to Wurstküche, for a few pints of Weihenstephan Dunkelweizen, Belgian fries and grilled sausages. Monday morning, 4999 other geeks and I were treated to a 40 projector sound and light show and the news that the Cloud was here to stay. (My 2¢: if you make your living with the software, don’t bitch about paying for it).
That...
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Neubecker Auction Swap
Posted: Mon, 13 May 2013 18:19:44 EDT
These arrived in today's mail. I took Robert Neubecker up on his offer to swap a books and prints for school auctions. I'm sure these will do quite well for my daughters (plural) school in 2014. I can only hope mine do as well for his. Anyway, if you haven't done it, and your kids schools have auction fundraisers, Robert has hit on a great idea. Take advantage.
Robert's original post: Prints for Charity
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Uncommissioned
Posted: Mon, 13 May 2013 18:05:26 EDT
These drawings were commissioned by… no one!
In that hour between 5:00 and 6:00 a.m. something has to gel. I create an environment out of some abstract drips and scrawls. Then I add a figure or two and you get some sort of drama going. Sometimes, even stasis is all the drama I can handle at 5:00 a.m. Sometimes the whole thing gets out of hand, searching for a solution and I paint it all out and start over.
But, I swear, I'll go to bed tonight happily anticipating the...
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TONY! TONY! TONY!
Posted: Mon, 13 May 2013 15:13:56 EDT
It's not often I get the opportunity to draw jazz hands.
A quick cover for last weekends New York Times Arts & Leisure section. I wish I could tell you that these are all drawn from life, but unfortunately I haven't had a chance to see any of these plays. The closest I've come is my daughter's middle school drama club production of The Wizard of Oz, which was sadly overlooked for a Tony nomination.
Thanks to Shannon Robertson and Paul Jean for a fun gig....
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Happy Mother's Day
Posted: Sat, 11 May 2013 22:02:50 EDT
Mother’s Day’s activist political roots.
For this weekend’s LA Times.
Great thanks to Wes Bausmith, Susan Brenneman, Sue Horton.
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