posted: October 4, 2011

Desert Island Comics owner Gabe Fowler invited me to create a window installation, I suggested a Halloween theme. Like so many here, I can't draw enough spooky October images. In addition my birthday is 10/29 and I always had Halloween birthday parties, one of many advantages of being a scorpio.
I had a fun time playing with glue and a matte knife, a nice change from digital stuff. To fill the store window (once a bakery) i made cardboard lanterns based on vintage Halloween decorations I adore. Devils and Jack-O Lanterns painted on panels that glow. Black light creatures lurk in the foreground. Just the kind of holiday art that would thrill me when I was 12.
The display will be up thru November, glowing 24/7. This installation is difficult to photograph, I hope to revisit this post with better shots soon.
 

posted: July 3, 2009

Happy Fourth Drawgers!! If you turn your attention to the New York Times
website, the latest installment in my Concrete Jumble animation
series is there for your amusement.on Second Ave the immagrant
experience is what comes to my mind. Babushka's for all the
mom's, or at least for mine.
Once again the music is by the fantastic Mike Hashim. Last month
Mike recorded four great new compositions that I will be using this
year as the Times has wisely decided to keep this going. The new music
is not so swing based, using Sax, Tuba, Fender Rhodes and drums,even
a touch of synth. I love the new tracks and Im already doodling on more
cartoons.

posted: January 22, 2009

Happy New President,  Drawgers!

To celebrate this historic week I
am presenting my history of the Bowery on the NY Times on-line.
Back in the early eighties I spent lots of time visiting the Bowery.
Thanks to the generosity of J and S, Bond street was my temporary
home when visiting NYC. The wacky all night art/punk energy combined
with danger, filth and human misery to make me fall in love with New York.
The Bowery is much different today.  Under the gloss, that old
crust still festers and blooms.

Audacious, isn't it?

 

posted: September 16, 2008

It has been said that timing is everything. Dumb luck never hurt either. I've been working since June on the next installment to my New York Times on-line series Concrete Jumble. The latest installment is  Wallstreet posted yesterday when the Dow dumped downward by over 500 points, yow.
Music again by top Genius Mike Hashim,everything else by yours truly.
Heres a link video.on.nytimes.com/ and I hope it works since I seem to be having trouble linking to these NYT pieces. If its bad just search it up n the site, maybe Zina will post one that works like she kindly did last time.
I hope a little cartoon amusement will distract everyone the new economic climate. The seventies may be coming back for NYC, no CBGB's sadly but you cant have it all.
Next installment in the series will be The Bowery, so get out your squeegee's seventies fans.