Black Youth at the Keith Haring Exhibit

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

Sketchbook Miscellany: Ballplayers

Sketchbook Miscellany: Aliens in the Outfield*

*courtesy C.J., who on New Year's Eve put on a glow-in-the-dark alien mask and a baseball cap and said "I'm an alien in the outfield! Put me in coach, just gimme a chance! I came all the way from another galaxy to play!"

Frederick Wiseman Movies

Sketchbook Miscellany: Orange, Captain, Primate

Roman Polanski: Deputized!

I've completed a comic about Roman Polanski's response to the murder of his wife Sharon Tate in 1969. It's a true story, excerpted and dramatized from his book Roman by Polanski.

Comic about going to the movies

Sidney Lumet

Roman Polanski x 4

Four cartoon versions of Roman Polanski for an upcoming strip:

A comic about Connie Hawkins

I just finished working on a comic for the next issue of Smoke Signal, and realized I never posted the comic from my last entry in that free all-comics newspaper. This is the story of Connie Hawkins, a basketball almost-was who I read about in Loose Balls, a great oral history of the short-lived American Basketball Association. There's also a chapter about him in The Undisputed Guide to Basketball History, the terrific book by the FreeDarko boys. If you have any interest in basketball, or any desire to understand what's exciting about basketball, those books are for you.

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.

Sketchbook Miscellany: Brooklyn Philharmonic

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:

Can't Anybody Here Play this Game?

Thank-you drawing of Jimmy Breslin for my pal Steve.

The Argentinian

On Sunday, while I was working at Desert Island Comics:

Sketchbook Miscellany: Sweatshirt Dream

Sketchbook Miscellany: Iranian Bowl

Sketchbook Miscellany: Five People

Sketchbook Miscellany: Gang of Dogs

Roslyn, NY

Two from this series of "Faces in the Crowd" drawings are on the wall at Susan Inglett. This one's not on view. They're usually named after the town that the person pictured is from.