My summer classes are enrolling right now at SVA

Come take a class with me. I'll be nice, I promise. I'll teach you stuff. Check it out:
http://www.sva.edu/continuing-education/illustration-and-cartooning/cartooning-courses

Portfolio 2013

This is my current illustration portfolio, which I'll display here until I finish rebuilding my website.

First are examples of cartooning combined with hand lettering:

Next are book illustrations from The Golden Ass:

More book illustration and wild figure drawing:

...and inventive pages in a mix of styles:

Skillful and ingenious, right?

Tragic Strip: Universal Sentiments & Volapuk

This strip ran in the March issue of The Brooklyn Rail, but with a spelling error. The Menominee for "I love you" is ketapanen, not ketapenan as I first had it. Here is the corrected version.

Raunchy Limerick Favorites (again)

The new issue of Yuck!, #7, has just come out in Australia and includes these 5 pages of my Raunchy Limerick Favorites.

I posted most of these before, when they ran as a Tragic Strip, but you should be able to see them better here. Depending on your browser, if you open each page in a new window, they'll appear 1200px wide, which is pretty clear. 

Recent Tragic Strip: Real Men Play Barbies

Be mine?

http://yourdailydoodle.tumblr.com/post/43079381316/be-mine

Dueling Models

I had a fabulous time last Wednesday at Dare to Draw at the Society of Illustrators. They featured two athletic models choreographed into battle poses.

I really enjoyed the snarling faces the guy made throughout but, even more, I was grateful for the way the woman could rarely suppress her smile. It reinforced the feeling that the mock violence was all in fun.

I don't know these people and can't presume to speak for them, but to me it felt indicative of sexual difference. The man seemed able to invest his imagination fully in the drama while the woman couldn't shake her sense of the silliness of it all. This kind of imagery is for boys, and the girls just play along.

There was one beheading pose that I found particularly hard to deal with until I was able to connect it in memory to that episode of Sherlock where Irene Adler is about to be beheaded but her executioner reveals himself to be Sherlock in disguise.



In this decades long epidemic of murderously suicidal young men committing huge atrocities all over the world, please please please keep it unreal.

Student Spotlight: Bryan Douglas

Here are some class projects  my Figure Drawing for Graphic Novelists course created by one of my star students-- one of my A plusses-- Bryan Douglas.

Among other figure-cartooning skills building challenges, Bryan was asked to create action poses from Fleischer Studios model sheets (in this case, Popeye), compose a comic page from a live model, and complete original comic pages of his own characters. As you see, he responded to the assignments with wit and imagination:

images (c) Bryan Douglas 2013

It's always a thrill meeting and working with such talented young artists. Classes are enrolling right now and starting soon. Come join us!

Comic Artists, Publishers, Poets, and others...

Attempting to catch up on sketches of various public speakers...

Here are cartoonists at various venues:

Tom Hart @ SVA

Leela Corman @ Word

Rick Parker @ MoCCA Fest

Gahan Wilson @MoCCA

A couple of panels from the 2012 Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival:

The Narrative Collage: Tim Hensley, Charles Burns, Tom Spurgeon, Anouk Ricard.

Emerging International Comics Networks: Carmela Chergui, Tommi Musturi, Dunja Jankovic, Ines Estrada.

I show up regularly to the New York Comics and Picture Story Symposium, but sketch only rarely:

Jason Little

Matthew Thurber

Leah Wishnia

Keren Katz

Arlen Schumer

Mark Delboy

Jack Feldstein

Steven Kroninger

Kurt Hoss

Mark Lerer

Victoria Roberts

Seymour Chwast

From the Barney Rosset Memorial at Cooper Union, 5/9/12:

Haskell Wexler

David Amram

Fred Jordan

Peter Rosset

A reading at Poet's House in July, 2011:

Albert Mobilio

Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Evie Shockley

Jena Osman

Myla Goldberg performing I forget where (sketching in the dark):

 I think that's it for now. Anyone interested in my sketches of anonymous people from cafes, subways, life drawings, etc, please follow this other blog.