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Procrastinations
NYC Marathon results, 2009
November 3
UPDATE: This year's New York City Marathon was great. As I wrote last week, they're all different...
San Francisco
March 13
To end my month of travels and talking, on the invitation of Robert Hunt, I went to San Francisco. CCA invited...
Talking and talking and talking...
March 8
This is my season of giving. I go long stretches without doing any presentations or talks about my work and...
Keen's Steakhouse Illustration Night
March 6
A few weeks ago in a conversation about our favorite restaurants and memorable eating establishments, I asked Marc...
DWI-Do It With Illustration
March 2
DO IT WITH ILLUSTRATION: Under the Influence with Today's Most Arresting Illustrators Come and meet six of the...
Austin Texas
February 20
This past week my family and I visited the Burckhardt's in Austin Texas. They had been kind enough to ask us several...
Gifts
November 26
One of the nice things about being on Drawger is getting to receive gifts from fellow Drawgers. One...
Before the moment passes...
November 7
In a rare royal flush, 3 Drawgers illustrated the covers of 3 major magazines in the same week. Brian Stauffer on the...
The UNITED STATES of AMERICA
November 5
For a few weeks now, most people I know have watched the polls and heard the pundits predict an Obama victory....
Marathon 2008
November 3
What a race. What a summer of training. After my disaster race of 2007 I had to find out why I passed out at...
Endless Summer
September 2
I have spent another wonderful summer in the Endless Mountains and at the Atlantic coast. I am sure all of you...
Martha's Vineyard 2008
June 24
For the 14th year in a row, Elizabeth and I started our summer by going to Martha's Vineyard. The location...
Leyendecker again
June 10
While there is still time, I want to urge those who can, to visit the Society of Illustrators to see the J. C....
Robert F. Kennedy
June 6
I am fascinated with the Kennedy family. Perhaps it's because I was born into the void of JFK's assassination and then...
Luka
June 3
Well, this is clearly a day to announce our choices. Like my friend Anita, I would like to reveal our new dog,...
J.C.Leyendecker
May 22
Last night I went to the opening of one of the best exhibitions the Society of Illustrators ever mounted. The work of...
Back from Spring!
February 22
I’ve just returned from a trip to the spring. Right now the spring seems to be in central Florida. I went for a week...
Boxing
January 24
As some of my friends know, I love boxing. I trained as a boxer for many years and in High School boxed as an amateur....
George Mitchell
December 14
Several years ago a series of events made it possible for me to meet and have dinner with former Senator George...
December 8th
December 7
powered by ODEO Music reaches the memory in a powerful way for me. When I was about 14 or 15 I was forging ahead in...
My 2007 NYC Marathon Run
October 31
The New York City Marathon is Sunday. I ran hundreds miles preparing for the race and saw so many cool parts of New...
The Fall
October 13
Well, I had an adventure this week. I was getting ready to do my run for the day; Tuesday had to be 8 miles. This is...
Nut
September 18
Back in the Studio
September 4
All summer I drove 4 hours west of Brooklyn to Eagles Mere, PA. Up in the mountain in a range of mountains west of the...
A Storm Grows in Brooklyn
August 9
On Wednesday morning at 6 AM, I heard crackling thunder RIGHT after flashes of lightning. I popped out of bed knowing...
The TIMES They Are A-Changin'
August 6
I like the size of the New York Times. It's so big it forces negotiation with the person reading the section they...
Running the NYC Marathon 2007
July 31
So, I am into this thing again this year. As was well covered here last year, I ran the marathon in 2006. In what...
The Vineyard 2007
June 19
Each year since our honeymoon, my wife Elizabeth and I spend a week or more at a cabin in Martha's Vineyard. It's a...
Reagan's Tear part 2
June 3
It's been months since I did the tear on Regan's cheek for Time. . That was a weird experience that was part fame and...
Dragon Final
May 24
My class at the University of the Arts has just concluded and as I mentioned earlier, the final assignment was a...
Kitty Carlisle Hart
April 18
I had the pleasure of meeting Kitty Carlisle Hart a while back at the unveiling of her late husband's USPS. She was a...
Zimm in NYC
March 3
It's been about a year for me to have a space on Drawger. In that year I gat a good look at what I've done in the past...
Brush with fame
March 1
I used to help run a gym in North Philly in the late 80's. Near the end of my time in Philly, a guy walked in the gym...
illoz.com Movie
January 4
This logo is fun to draw! That's my hand doing the drawing.
Merry
December 24
This particular holiday, for me, is filled with complexity. A life of surprises and disappointments not only for me...
Here's to a Brave 2007
December 23
December 8th 1980
December 8
In memory of an artist who opened up his soul for others to see. powered by ODEO
When I Was Wild
December 3
At Thanksgiving I visited my mom in Connecticut. It's the house I grew up in. When I stay there, I sleep in my old...
Mr. O'Brien Goes to Washington
November 16
On Wednesday I went to Washington DC to the Smithsonian National Postal Museum to see the opening of a new show,...
The NYC Marathon
November 7
What a day. It's been years since I was actually up for a sporting event. Boxing has become more of a workout for the...
NYC Marathon
November 1
It's been too long between posting info about ARTWORK, and I AM working hard right now on a cover for Time Asia,...
Halloween and Cassius
October 31
My neighborhood is one of the most diverse in the country and it's filled with many levels of income and people from...
John Lennon
October 10
It ocured to me earlier that today would have been John Lennon's 66th birthday. I was driving home from teaching in...
Billion Dollar Band
September 23
With this weekend being music appreciation and all, I dove into youTube for 2 minutes and found this great gem of a...
War Zone
September 20
Edel's peek into his studio convinced me to offer a peek in the hornet's nest I call my studio. Intern needed.
Philly Half-Marathon
September 19
This weekend I ran the Philly Half Marathon (13.1 miles). As I wrote earlier, I took up running this summer and...
My Iconic Podcast
September 7
Erik Olson is an energetic young illustrator who created a wonderful podcast about illustration called ICONIC. He...
Summer 2006...The End
September 4
It started so wonderfully; picking up Cassius on our tandem bike as his final month of school was winding down, opening...
Number 1 with a Bullet!
August 23
This summer I decided to become a runner. I started on vacation, kind of like Forrest Gump, running away from our...
Help me to Help Myself
June 19
I have a ton to talk about upon my return from vacation, but I see all these great Father's Day entries and reading...
Cassius Song
May 19
My funny and inventive son Cassius had this groove in his head. He called it either Baby to the Moon or Bickya...
If someone...
April 6
Bye Bye Tommy Boy
April 5
This is a alteration to a cover I did for Congressional Quaterly that has been in a holding pattern for months....
New Painting - March 26th
March 26
Just finished this piece. It's right off the easel. It's for an article about technology (are all articles about...
Okay, so now I added some images
March 25
Okay, so now I added some image but you're all artists and know me so who cares? What you really want are blog entries...
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