Neda Agha-Soltan    Born in 1982, she was a philosophy major, took...

491 comments
last comment: June 13, 2011
first featured June 26, 2009

I find my images used on the web, without my permission, all the time. But this time it really...

292 comments
last comment: May 16, 2011
first featured April 7, 2010

Here is one of those stories where no good deed goes unpunished. Or is it "Every good deed...

172 comments
last comment: July 12, 2011
first featured June 21, 2011

I'm going to Brazil with my neighbor Marco in 2014. Until today, I was looking forward to...

167 comments
last comment: October 9, 2012
first featured July 22, 2010

This is Chuck Brown.  He is real and I guess, a monster. For a show at Copro Gallery in...

129 comments
last comment: December 20, 2010
first featured July 8, 2009

I got an email late last night from the operator of this website that I am being kicked out...

119 comments
last comment: October 12, 2010
first featured October 9, 2010

94 comments
last comment: February 15, 2012
first featured June 9, 2010

A portrait of the 3 Stooges circa late forties (with Shemp) posed with their long-time nemesis,...

93 comments
last comment: September 12, 2009
first featured July 21, 2009

1959.  My father wanted to be an illustrator.  More precisely, he wanted to be a...

89 comments
last comment: September 8, 2011
first featured April 25, 2011

I've been trying to avoid this all week, aside from addressing it on Facebook, but it...

87 comments
last comment: August 24, 2009
first featured August 12, 2009

Got stupid?  Do we! . . and how!!  This summer has taken our temperature as a nation...

85 comments
last comment: September 16, 2009
first featured September 9, 2009

When I was 15, I smoked hash and wore bell bottoms that were frayed from walking on the hems...

78 comments
last comment: September 7, 2009
first featured August 15, 2009

Next week, my father, the author Bruce Jay Friedman will be celebrating his 80th Birthday....

72 comments
last comment: January 6, 2011
first featured April 15, 2010

A first grade teacher sheltered her students in a closet, listening to gunshots in the hallway...

72 comments
last comment: December 20, 2012
first featured December 16, 2012

Could Sarah Palin's puzzling speech yesterday mean the end of her political career?

71 comments
last comment: April 23, 2010
first featured July 5, 2009

Steve Heller just phoned me to say that Dugald Stermer has died in California.  ...

70 comments
last comment: March 1, 2012
first featured December 3, 2011

It’s been almost a week since returning home from what was essentially a drive-by...

70 comments
last comment: March 3, 2011
first featured December 9, 2010

I just received a phone call from Anelle Miller, Director of the Society of Illustrators... ...

68 comments
last comment: November 24, 2009
first featured November 18, 2009

2012 came with a good deal of adventures and milestones. This children's book I worked on...

67 comments
last comment: February 17
first featured December 6, 2012

I remember back in the early 2000’s after our youngest son, Ben, decided to...

63 comments
last comment: May 27, 2012
first featured May 27, 2011

63 comments
last comment: February 5
first featured January 30