free event at Apple Store NY February 26   This announcement is mainly for students and young illustrators. Come hang with me at my talk... Sketchtravel Goes to Kyoto January 29 You may, or may not know about Sketchtravel. But, let me tell you that this is quite an amazing project... things I have learned so far. May 11 This is what I scribbled yesterday morning.  In June, it will be ten years since I started working as an... The Influentials September 7 Tomorrow evening at The Visual Arts Gallery is an opening for a show The Influentials. It is a show of SVA female... San Diego Comic-Con July 22 I am not at Comic-Con. Many people asked if I was going, including my DC Comics Vertigo editor Karen Berger, with... buy art for a good cause. June 2 Weather in New York is finally neither boiling hot or cold. So, come out to SOHO this Saturday afternoon, and buy... Blow Up opens. September 1 Blow Up, a show of works by Tomer Hanuka, Sam Weber and myself, opened today at the Society of Illustrators (NYC).... Blow Up. August 13 It is official. Tomer Hanuka, Sam Weber and I will be in a three person show at the Society of Illustrators in... FIT lecture tomorrow March 23 How I Got My First Job, a lecture at Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) will be held tomorrow evening, March... 33 album covers. March 9 The Society of Illustrators annual show of advertising and institutional category just opened last week here in New... 1/100 (belated) Head for Haiti March 4 Many of fellow Drawgers have posted their head drawings/paintings already. My belated contribution...... Tonight, Tonight. February 5 See you all tonight at the Society of Illustrators? surprise or no surprise, lots of Drawger members are... Fun in Tokyo. November 30 With fellow Drawgers: Gary Taxali and Thomas Fuchs, along with our friend Thilo Rothacker, four of us... This Week in San Francisco October 5 California College of the Arts (CCA) kindly invited me to speak at their campus this coming Thursday.  I am... Teaching in (HOT HOT) Venice! August 17 Venice was HOT. I mean, really... While I was teaching a six day illustration workshop in the last week of... Drawing for Comic Books June 4 I dreamed of becoming a comic artist when I was child. Just like any other Japanese kid growing up in economic... What Are You Doing on Tuesday? April 30 School of Visual Art’s MFA Illustration Thesis Project show will open tomorrow, and there will be a reception...