Thursday, June 13, 2013

Dada Day



In anticipation of Fathers's Day, I've posted a comic that celebrates Dada - the most childlike of all modern art movements! You can read the full comic here, as well as the rest of my series "Who Needs Art?" for Medium.com.

Monday, June 3, 2013

Self Portrait


I just posted the second comic in my new installment in my new series "Who Needs Art"! You can read the full version at Medium.com.

Friday, May 24, 2013

Future Work


I'm excited to announce that I've started a new comic series for Medium.com called "Who Needs Art?" With a new post every other week, I'll be exploring movements and concepts in art and design. I'm treating this series as my chance to experience what I missed by not going to art school.

You can now read my first piece "Remembering Futurism," about the early 20th-century Italian Futurist movement. In a few months I'll start posting the full comics to this site. Thanks for reading!

Monday, May 6, 2013

Rules for Freelancers


This is the second of a set of comics I drew for Red Lemon Club, a site with articles and resources for creative professionals started by illustrator Alex Mathers. The secret to success in any creative field includes a cape, a Holden Caulfied hat, and a small herd of trained elephants.

Monday, April 29, 2013

Day Jobs of the Poets



This comic is factual, but it requires a couple clarifications: Wallace Stevens was an executive at an insurance company, not your average insurance salesman. And there's no evidence that Emily Dickinson liked cats, but her sister Lavinia was cat-obsessed. So Emily must have been forced to cat-sit occasionally.

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Saturday, March 30, 2013

How to Make Write


This drawing appears alongside a NYT Opinionator Draft essay by Henry Hitchings about the use of nominalization in writing. One type of nominalization is the appropriation of verbs as nouns, leading to attention-grabbing (and annoyance-inducing) phrases like the ones found in this comic. You can also see the illustration and article in print in the March 31 NYT Sunday Review. Thanks to AD Matt Dorfman for the gig!

Monday, March 11, 2013

Disclaimer



One of the most difficult questions to answer is "What do you want to be when you grow up?"

As always, you can order a poster of this comic at my shop.

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Genius Is...


I drew this comic for Red Lemon Club, a great site of advice and inspiration for creative professionals. Thanks to illustrator and creative blogger Alex Mathers for the gig! Be sure to check out his other site, Ape on the Moon, for interviews and portfolios from a vast array of illustrators.

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Thursday, February 21, 2013

Performance-Enhancing Drugs for Writers


I don't advocate drug use - unless it leads to great works of literature.

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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

What Is Love?


The hardest part of writing about love is choosing just one metaphor.

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