William Friedkin meets James Cagney

Philip Glass and Company

Go here to see what's up with this.

rhino

Paris Review and Albert Cossery

The first in my short series of illustrated blog posts for the Paris Review is up. Check it out.

Water Drawing

gouache, 2011

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: 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