The 2012-13 New York Knicks

New Comic: Adaptation of Junot Diaz story

I did a comic adapting Junot Diaz's short story "Miss Lora." Check it out at BAM's website.

Animated Short with Ben Cohen

New animated short. Illustrated by me, animated by Ben Cohen.

We did this for the Ford Foundation to celebrate the work of Orlando Bagwell, director of the foundation's JustFilms initiative. The piece was shown at an event hosted by JustFilms at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

Sound by Dan Pashman and Ben Cohen
Produced and written by MacKenzie Fegan

Voices:
Michael Piazza
Natalie Kuhn
Clayton Early

Knicks drawings

The Knicks season has started off well, and I've been doing quick drawings after each victory. (If you're counting, you know they've won 7, but there are only six here. I missed a drawing because of travel.)

RAYMOND FELTON

JR SMITH

WALT "CLYDE" FRAZIER

RONNIE BREWER

JASON KIDD

MARCUS CAMBY

Biographile: Leonard Cohen and Neil Young

There's a new biography of Leonard Cohen out called I'm Your Man by Sylvie Simmons, who also wrote a Serge Gainsbourg bio. And Neil Young has written memoir called Waging Heavy Peace. Biographile asked me to check them out and draw something. Here's what I came up with. 

They are on the Biographile website here and here.

North African Lit, Pt II

The Paris Review has posted the second installment of my illustrated essays about North African literature.

Click here to read it all.
Part I is here.

My childhood and the TV

Lots of stuff for the Brooklyn Academy of Music lately. Here's a personal illustrated essay about television inspired by the new show at BAM called The Channel.

Follow through to read more.

"I Don't Get It"

An animated short I made with Ben Cohen for the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Robert Wilson goes to see Einstein on the Beach (which he directed) and sits down with Arthur Miller at BAM.

William Friedkin meets James Cagney

Von Sternberg's first movie

This is a comic I did for Smoke Signal about Josef von Sternberg's first movie. Charlie Chaplin, Mary Astor, and Douglas Fairbanks make appearances.

Illustrated essays for BAM

I have done a couple of illustrated essays for the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Here is a post about author Denis Johnson, pictured above in his cameo in Jesus' Son. The post also goes into detail about his novel Resuscitation of a Hanged Man. He appeared at BAM as part of their Eat, Drink, and Be Literary series.

Here is a post about Jonathan Pryce, pictured above in Glengarry Glen Ross. Other movies covered in the post are Pirates of the Caribbean, Brazil, and the James Bond movie he was in. Pryce appeared at BAM in Harold Pinter's play The Caretaker.

I'm excited to say there are more of these to come.

Godard Tote Bags

Check 'em out in the Etsy store.

Black Youth at the Keith Haring Exhibit

Recommended: Click on the first image to read full comic as a slideshow.

Sketchbook Miscellany: Hair Salon Chair

5 Days, 5 Posts. Day One: Yoda

For the next 5 days, starting today, I'll post a drawing a day so we can all get excited about this year's first In God We Trust Summer Backyard Bazaar in Greenpoint. There will be free beer, cheap food, and a select group of great vendors. I'll be there selling doodles, artwork, prints, and a special Godard-themed tote bag. I'll also be taking commissions, and doing live drawings on the spot for you to take home or send your dad for Father's Day. (Get him a little portrait of his favorite baseball player or political commentator.)

In God We Trust
(close to the Greenpoint stop on the G)
70 Greenpoint Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
Saturday, May 21st
Noon-8pm

Today's post: Star Wars with ballpoint pen.

Connie Hawkins in Smoke Signal at Desert Island

The new Smoke Signal is available at Desert Island. I have a one-pager in there about Connie Hawkins, the basketball great who caught a raw deal.

Get a copy at Desert Island.

If you're not nearby, you can order one.

It looks like this:

Blazer Drawings in PDX

I did 30 drawings of Portland Trail Blazers (and one Blazers-related personality) throughout history for this show at Compound in Portland. Some have sold, many are for sale.

You can see all of the drawings and the other works in the show on curator Nate Tabor's blog.

Compound is selling a print for $20 of some members of the infamous Jail Blazer team of the early Zeroes. Buy it here.

HP Lovecraft

Author of Dunwich horror stories and subject of

Houellebecq's Against the World, Against Life

Rapidograph pens on paper

About 5 x 7"

Chico Marx

Drawings at 4 (I think) locations

In God We Trust has author portraits, drawings of fashion designers, and custom book covers at their Greenpoint, Williamsburg, and Manhattan locations. You can buy them there, you can commission work through the store, or you can just look at the drawings and then buy some tights or a winter coat or something. Location links below. 

In God We Trust

SOHO

265 Lafayette Street

New York, NY 10012

(212) 966-9010

Lower East Side

153 Ludlow St # 1

New York, NY 10002-2241

(212) 228-1055

Greenpoint

70 Greenpoint Avenue

NY 11222-3889

(718) 389-3545

Williamsburg

135 Wythe Avenue

NY 11211

(718) 388-2012