posted: January 22, 2012

New York has inspired me from my first visit at age nine. I set my sights on moving here (from Cleveland) from that moment and at eighteen I stepped off a train in Grand Central Station. Drawn To New York includes some of my earliest drawings from the 1980's  right up to work created a few months ago. From comics to sketchbook drawings, illustrations and paintings, Drawn to New York is a portrait of my thirty-four years on twelve miles of island with eight million people.

Since the crash of 2008 I have found it more difficult to find US publishers willing to do the kind of full color hard cover books I want to do like this, so I've found myself migrating to other countries. Drawn To New York came out last fall in a Spanish edition and will be published in France next fall. The only English edition is as an e-book. An avowed luddite, I never expected to find myself in the digital world, but when I was approached by the new e-book publisher Bemis Balkind, I decided I'd rather have my book available than not. With publishers taking fewer and fewer chances, this is the path I find myself taking. I have to admit, seeing this book on a (borrowed) ipad and having the art looking so luminous and digitally flipping the pages like a book opened a door.I will leave print, kicking and screaming, but intend to further explore the possibilitites presented by e-books. Particularly the area where books that are long out of print may find a new life and audience in this form.
If, unlike me, you are the owner of an ipad
You can get all 200 pages of Drawn To New York here:
  http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/drawn-to-new-york/id493336924?mt=11
If you speak Spanish (most of the book is wordless so you can still get most of it), you can find a real live hardcover of the book here:
http://sextopiso.com/mex/art_detalle.php?ida=252
 
 
 

posted: November 27, 2011

Which has given me the chance to do more talking about work, than actually creating any, but fortunately I've kept my  sketchbook handy...

posted: December 5, 2010

30 years ago while attending Pratt Institute, my friend Seth Tobocman and I decided to start a magazine. With Ronald Reagan heading towards the White House the title WW3 illustrated seemed appropriate.
Never thought we'd still be at it...but here we are and mounting a retrospective to commemorate the launch. Dec 7th a day that already lives in infamy is our opening night...
GRAPHIC RADICALS: 30 Years of World War 3 Illustrated
December 7, 2010 to February 5, 2011
Opening Tuesday, December 7 / 7-9pm
EXIT ART 475 Tenth Avenue (at 36th Street), New York, NY 10018
212-966-7745 / www.exitart.org / A, C, E to 34th Street / Penn Station
Open Tue.–Thu., 10am–6pm; Fri., 10am–8pm; and Sat., 12–6pm.

 

Here's a sampling of some of the artists who will be in the show
Steve Brodner, Christopher Cardinale, Sue Coe, Scott
Cunningham, Eric Drooker,  FLY,  Mirko Ilic, Ryan Inzana,Melissa Jameson, Sandy Jimenez, Sabrina Jones, Tom Keough,Stephen Kroninger, Mac McGill,
Rebecca Migdal, Naji-Al-Ali, Kevin Pyle,
 Spain Rodriguez, James Romberger, Joe Sacco,
Nicole Schulman,R. Sikoyak, Chuck Sperry, Art
Spiegelman,Ward Sutton, , Seth Tobocman, Tom Tomorrow, Lawrence Van Abbema, Anton Van Dalen, Edwin Vazquez,  Susan Willmarth, David Wojnarowicz and oh so many more 

The opening will also be the release of the new issue...

There will also be a series of talks in January asscociated with the show
Friday, January 14 / 7-9pm
Picture the Homeless
With artist talks by Seth Tobocman, Mac Mcgill and Rebecca Migdal and
music by Eric Blitz and Andy Laties
Picture the Homeless is a grassroots organization of homeless men and women
who fight to impact and change policies and systems on issues that directly effect
the homeless population such as housing, police violence, and the shelterindustrial
complex. http://picturethehomeless.com


Friday, January 21 / 7-9pm
Friends of Brad Will
With artist talks by Peter Kuper, FLY  and  Susan Simensky Bietile
Friends of Brad Will is a network of activists which promotes enhanced public awareness about the human rights abuses linked to the “war on drugs”. In that context, we are working to promote government policies and actions that result in accountability for the murder, in Mexico, of U.S. journalist Brad Will
http://friendsofbradwill.org/

Wednesday, January 26 / 7-9pm
Milk Not Jails
With artists talks by Sabrina Jones and Kevin Pyle
Milk Not Jails is a consumer campaign to mobilize New York residents to support
the dairy industry and the long-term sustainability of the rural economy. It
advocates for criminal justice and agriculture policy reform to bring about positive
economic growth. http://mailknotjails.wordpress.com

Hope to see some of you Drawgers there

posted: May 1, 2010

A recent piece done for the NY Times Book Review.
The idea came to me after a space I was supposed to give a talk was double booked,
had a reading that barely anyone could find and had a long unattended book signing.
Tragedy plus time equals comics.