Here are a few more from the Daily Creations Dept. ... in no particular order....

• 4/29 Joaquin Phoenix: actor turned rapper, was rapping unintelligibly when a heckler started mocking him. Phoenix leaped into the crowd entwining himself, wrestling and snarling with the hapless heckler. Source: Some tabloid. Did you see the Letterman clip?
  

• 4/24 Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno... from a mug shot. Ever see Mug Shots magazine?? Arrest photos are becoming an increasing source of fun and frivolity for Americans. Many of these photos are of those who have been arrested - but not yet convicted - causing concern with many...like those arrested! Perhaps one intention is to deter crime through public humiliation. (Fat Tony was convicted in ’86).

• 4/25 Former Merrill CEO John “giggles” Thain

• 4/18 KSM. Saved on my desktop as ‘hairy_1.jpg, fyi.

• 4/26 Liu Zhongtain, chairman of aluminum-extrusion maker China Zhongwang makes tiny aluminum foil figurines during break-time.

• 4/10 Curt Young from the 1991 A’s

• 4/28 HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius

• 4/22 Kenneth Lewis of BOA, no longer CEO.

• 4/30 Next question please. Robt Gibbs.

Eric Holder, top cop. 4/15

Stephen Minarik 4/15

A highflying financier with a colorful story.... A Taiwanese immigrant who made it big in the world of private equities.. but whose past is built on questionable university degrees and employment credentials, theft allegations from his partner’s corporate escrow accounts (millions), big-time Vegas gambling forays .... and eventually an imploding Ponzi scheme. Add to that, our next profile:

4/17... gunned down by a mysterious man that showed up at their front door asking her first if she was indeed the Mrs..... (the maid overheard, and her 5 year old was there next to her...) Still unsolved. The Mr. was out of town. Who's next?????

... the New Wife! 4/18

Roxana Saberi 4/21... being held at Evin jail in Iran...The Fargo, N.D. American journalist was initially accused of working without press creds.

A Day Late... but what a story.

I love doing portraits and drawing people, but seem to have been doing less than I’d like to lately. (I have been doing more advertising and corporate work, as well as digital stuff...) So I am creating a portrait a day for a month to see what happens. Busier days will limit size and scope, of course - but at least one finished piece a day. And by posting this, I can trust you fellow Drawgers to cast nasty aspersions my way if in a month I have created nothing but 3 thumbnail sketches and some lame, but colorful, excuses. Talk about pressure(!)... I’ll post ‘em all in a month.

I intend to revamp my portraits portfolio over the coming months, so hopefully this will be a good first step.

High on the chair demand self-flagellation

Barney’s Fannie and Freddie Macs

Now sit squarely on taxpayer backs

Billions for bailouts

Our grandkids shall weather

One change was good...

Only more would be better.