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A Hard Week's Night
Here’s my excellent Election Night adventure. A few days before Election Day Nation editor Roane Carey called and asked me to prepare a few cover ideas. The Nation goes to press on Tuesday as a...
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Pieces from the Cliff, 2012
Some of the 2012 avalanche as seen in the rear view. For the Washington Post Magazine and art director Beth Broadwater, I was happy to sign up for the annual Dave Barry cluster art experience. A...
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7 Covers for 7 Nations
Today’s edition of The Nation is the seventh I had created cover art for in 2012. Here it is along with the complete collection. So grateful to The Nation and all editors, writers, designers....
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Jeffrey Goldberg from Scratch
Jeffrey Goldberg an irrepressible, dominant force on the foreign policy pundit scene, has been a writer I've always liked. Illustrated many pieces by him at The New Yorker. Now he is at The Atlantic...
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The Quotable Hugo Chavez
“Remember, little girl, I’m like the thorn tree that flowers on the plain…. Don’t mess with me, Condoleezza. Don’t mess with me, girl.”, in a Sunday broadcast after Secretary of State Rice said...
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SPDelighted
When your work is recognized by the design community it is wonderful. This year it is especially great to be short-listed at SPD for work that goes in new directions. Among the finalists in the...
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Human Experiments
My cover for this week’s The Nation illustrates the interesting case of New York’s Left/Right Governor Andrew Cuomo. In a good read by Eric Alterman we see that 2016 considerations make him a...
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Evil Cartoons in Massachusetts
On May 3-5 the esteemed Nation editor and author Victor Navasky and I will host a weekend in the country at the beautiful Rowe Center, located in the Northern Massachusetts woods, devoted to the...
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GUN SHOW
The NRA spreads its wealth and gets a big bang for the buck. For this month’s American Prospect. Thanks to Mary Parsons, designer, Kit Rachliss, editor, Jaime Fuller, Bob Moser for the great help on...
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Aaron Swartz 1986-2013
Last January Aaron Swartz committed suicide. He had been hounded into a state of deep depression by an overzealous prosecutor in Massachusetts, who wanted to make a public example of a young man who...
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Happy Mother's Day
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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Extremely grateful . . .
. . . 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 . . ....
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We Have a Weiner!
Can Weiner actually win? My sources tell me that this is the plan: GO BIG! Make yourself “Celebrity-Crazy-Lovable”. For example: Like Justin Bieber, walk around wearing a gas mask for no reason....
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The Mad Men of Climate Change Denial
A big part of my work comes from contacting art directors I respect with the hope of collaborating with them on a project I want to do. I am very lucky to be in an industry with great designers and...
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The Cost of Revolution
The New York Times Op-Art for July 4. Matthew Dorfman, AD of the NY Times Op-Ed, and I have been working on this piece for a couple of weeks. I proposed the story, did preliminary research and art....
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Kim Thompson Memorial
For those of us who knew Kim Thompson, knew of him, knew and love his work, a memorial will be held Saturday, Aug. 10, 2013, at the Society of Illustrators, 128 W. 63 St, NYC. 6-8pm. This past...
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OMG, Summer's Over?!
OKAYOKAYOKAY! So, where was I? . . . there was the top pop 100 for Entertainment Weekly. Squeezing Elvis, Michael, Bruce, Madonna, Prince and Dylan all together was a challenge. Here's my first...
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Illustration Next 2013, Nov. 5
Tuesday Nov. 5, 7PM, at the SVA amphitheater, open to the public. An update of a lecture I gave in 2010 discussing the work that artists are doing outside the traditional editorial framework. This is...
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It's Illustration Week
THANKS SO MUCH to all the colleagues and students who took part in the talk Illustration Next last night at SVA. We filled the amphi, happy to say and did it with a great group of some of the best and...
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Our Problem? Welfare!
How much do we spend every year on food stamps (now being cut to 4 million of the poor and much more next year, with 1 in 6 children hungry in the US)? $78 Billion. How much do we pay out in corporate...
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