The Zoo

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Asking Questions

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The Natural History Museum

Collecting My Thoughts

Reindeer Games

All I Need To Write

This comic was inspired by this classic Charles Barsotti New Yorker cartoon.

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There are worlds...

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The Nature of Ambition

Op-Ed Illustration

This illustration appears on today's NY Times Opinion page, alongside a letter suggesting the creation of a progressive third political party to caucus with the Democrats. The drawing was a self-initiated challenge in drawing equine legs. Thanks to art director Alexandra Zsigmond for the gig!

Story Structures

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We Are the Introverts

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Pig Latin Redux

As "Wayne's World 2" definitively proved, the sequel is never as good as the original. Still, I wanted to find out what happened to that intrepid pig.

Stray Books

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Pig Latin

In my exhaustive research for today's comic, I read that John Steinbeck often signed his books with a drawing of the Pigasus, a mythical flying pig. He also included the Latin motto "Ad astra per alas porci":

"To the stars on the wings of a pig."

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Behind Every Great Novelist

This illustration appears in the New York Times Book Review alongside a review by Christopher Benfey of John Sutherland's "Lives of the Novelists." Sutherland's book profiles a long list of notable writers and the personal events that may or may not have influenced their creative output. I tried to distill the typical experience of a literary icon into nine small panels. I'm certain that many of our great writers have worked in a coal mine and owned a small poodle. 

Animal Advocacy

I do not often use my drawings for political activism, but this comic is an exception. It highlights two issues I feel very strongly about.