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.

Nico's Circle

This is the first of 3 pages. Go here for the rest.

Max Von Sydow poster

Brochure that folds out into a poster to promote Max von Sydow series at BAM.

Drawings for Gary Shteyngart roast

I did a bunch of author portraits for BAM's roast of Gary Shteyngart. You can see how they used the portraits on the web, and below you can see the originals.

Here's how they were used in the program:

Here are the originals:

Shteyngart

Kurt Andersen

Sloane Crosley

John Wesley Harding

Jay McInerney

Edmund White

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.

David Byrne on a bike

David Byrne designed bike racks for BAM. They are in shapes that can be built to make letters, and those letters can be arranged (by the authorities in charge of the racks) to make words. There are only a handful of letters available, so you can't just have it spell anything you want. Right now they say "pink crown" and "micro lip." I did the illustration for the listing on the site about these things.

Philip Glass and Company

Go here to see what's up with this.

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.

Brooklyn Movies poster

Commissioned by BAM.

For sale on-line here. 

Also available at BAM, 30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY

The poster forms a rough outline of Brooklyn with depictions of The Education of Sonny Carson, Moonstruck, Once Upon a Time in America, She's Gotta Have It, Spike of Bensonhurst, Do the Right Thing, For Pete's Sake, Vigilante, Quiet City, The Landlord, The Sentinel, Goodfellas, A Vampire in Brooklyn, Frownland, Half Nelson, Saturday Night Fever, The Squid and the Whale, French Connection, Smoke, Dog Day Afternoon, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Little Fugitive, the Warriors, Two Lovers, and Last Exit to Brooklyn.

Comics about Brooklyn Movies

The BAM blog asked me to contribute a blog post about movies that have some Brooklyn significance to accompany a poster I created for them illustrating the same theme. It features John Cassavetes, The Little Fugitive, Jean Renoir, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Michael Winner, Vigilante, Chewbacca, Sam Fuller, all kinds of stuff. Check it out in its entirety here.

One segment of it: