http://www.drawger.com/ Sat, 25 May 2013 21:58:50 EDT FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.drawger.com/_images/drawger_leo_logo.gif http://www.drawger.com/ http://www.drawger.com/breckenreid/index.php?section=comments&article_id=14238 If you're in Toronto on Thursday June 6th, do come by to see a group show of work I've put together! Months ago, David Campbell and Nathaniel Garcia came to by my studio to see if I would by interested in curating a show for the Eliile Gallery. A beautiful and large space, I happily accepted. I've curated many group shows in the past, but this seemed like a good opportunity to do something slightly different. Featuring work by illustrators printed by master printer...
read more]]> Julia Breckenreid Sat, 25 May 2013 15:09:16 EDT http://www.drawger.com/kleinart/index.php?section=comments&article_id=14237 I've updated my graphic novel on http://activatecomix.com/140-9-17.comic Check it out.
read more]]> David G Klein Fri, 24 May 2013 19:37:14 EDT http://www.drawger.com/gregclarke/index.php?section=comments&article_id=14231 One of the things I love about drawger is that the posts run the gamut from the socially/politically trenchant to the sublimely inconsequential—I believe this would fall into the latter category (well...maybe not the sublime part). And the timing worked out for Bob D's birthday. This is for the June "guys" issue of 805 Living Magazine.
read more]]> Greg Clarke Fri, 24 May 2013 19:18:53 EDT http://www.drawger.com/yup/index.php?section=comments&article_id=14236 With the heat and humidity of the last few days it began to feel like I had somehow inadvertantly taken up residence on the surface of the planet Venus. The tiniest amount of movement or activity would produce sheets of perspiration. Even drawing – typically not an aerobic activity, at least how I practice it. So is it any wonder that, in a heat-stroke induced swoon, I began to have visions not unlike the one above?   Ben Franklin famously said "Beer is...
read more]]> Ross MacDonald Fri, 24 May 2013 16:29:11 EDT http://www.drawger.com/joho/index.php?section=comments&article_id=14234 ROY CARRUTHERS: I first met Roy over lunch in the early ‘80’s when I was a tourist overstay through a mutual collector. He gave me the keys to his studio in the Chelsea Hotel, paint, canvas and a friendship that has sustained the idea of the kindness of strangers to this day. He introduced me to the illustration that allowed my survival and Joan  who became my Rep and later my wife.  Roy shared a love of  obscure artists, discordant jazz, redheads and...
read more]]> John H Howard Thu, 23 May 2013 21:20:06 EDT http://www.drawger.com/fisher/index.php?section=comments&article_id=14233
read more]]> Mark Fisher Thu, 23 May 2013 20:37:45 EDT http://www.drawger.com/stevebrodner/index.php?section=comments&article_id=14232   Can Weiner actually win? My sources tell me that this is the plan:  GO BIG! Make yourself “Celebrity-Crazy-Lovable”. For example: Like Justin Bieber, walk around wearing a gas mask for no reason. And always wear ugly pants. Also, like the Bieb, adopt a pet monkey. Everyone will get the joke. Dedicate the campaign to Rick James, Mr. Superfreak himself. Like Britney, shave your head bald and go after the paparazzi. ...
read more]]> Steve Brodner Thu, 23 May 2013 20:25:12 EDT http://www.drawger.com/brianstauffer/index.php?section=comments&article_id=14230 A handful of very brave animal right activists work undercover inside the nations largest animal processing plants and farms to expose the unspeakable horrors animals are faced with at the hands of some sadistic human beings.  These activists captured hidden camera and cellphone video of animals being tortured, not mistreated, but literally tortured and for their heroism the local authorities are trying to make their form of activism classified and punishable on the same level as...
read more]]> Brian Stauffer Thu, 23 May 2013 15:11:26 EDT http://www.drawger.com/fuchsy/index.php?section=comments&article_id=14229 Here's a piece (printed in two parts over a spread) for an interview with a former inmate in a north Korean Prison. Actually, more like a concentration camp the size of a city, measuring about 280 square kilometers. Apparently there are several of these camps that encompass whole valleys or other stretches of land with thousands of people being born (he was born there as well), living and dying there. He talks about the horrible conditions they live and work in, the oppression by the...
read more]]> Thomas Fuchs Thu, 23 May 2013 10:34:20 EDT http://www.drawger.com/msloan/index.php?section=comments&article_id=14228 It's hard to believe that our year here in Hong Kong is winding down as we prepare for our return to the USA in July. I feel pressure to draw and paint as much as I can before we leave. Frequent thunder and lightning storms and temperatures in the 90's herald the onset of summer in the sub-tropics:
read more]]> Michael Sloan Wed, 22 May 2013 14:24:11 EDT http://www.drawger.com/jeffdraw/index.php?section=comments&article_id=14227 I did this asssignment for The Washington Post last month. It was a story about a nun, a painter, and a wanderer, all non violent activists who cut through chain linked fences and climbed over hills to get into a nuclear storage facility in Tennessee. Once there, they threw blood from a fallen comrades body onto the exterior walls, and spray painted passages from Isaiah as well. The assignment was a lot of work and a very quick turn around, but in the end, I got a lot of positive...
read more]]> Jeffrey Smith Wed, 22 May 2013 05:05:52 EDT http://www.drawger.com/marcellus/index.php?section=comments&article_id=14226
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read more]]> John Cuneo Tue, 21 May 2013 15:46:39 EDT http://www.drawger.com/carlwiens/index.php?section=comments&article_id=14224 Dylan Thomas wrote about the 'force that through the green fuse drives the flower'. In a few short weeks, the landscape has changed, everthing is now blanketed in green. It's nice to get caught up in the excitement and change of the season. I have been working on a series of assignments about new growth, the idea of good things beginning to emerge. Positive energy and vibrations. It's good to find that energy and harness it in my work.   ...
read more]]> Carl Wiens Tue, 21 May 2013 13:37:48 EDT http://www.drawger.com/marcellus/index.php?section=comments&article_id=14223
read more]]> Marcellus Hall Tue, 21 May 2013 06:21:02 EDT http://www.drawger.com/billmayer/index.php?section=comments&article_id=14221 Every year for as long as I can remember.... the first thing I do on January 1st  is to write Jim Burke and see if I can again talk my way onto the line up for Dellas Graphics Calendar. Always (so far) he has reluctantly conceded. This year we had been in the city for the shows at SI and were walking around looking for those great little shops only New York has, when I stumbled on a window that had a huge statue of Chan Chu. Chan Chu, or Jin Chan was the wife of a little known...
read more]]> Bill Mayer Mon, 20 May 2013 18:40:36 EDT http://www.drawger.com/kroninger/index.php?section=comments&article_id=14155 I thought I would dive in and take the Yuko Shimizu challenge. Unlike the others I'm going to limit my selections to specifically collage influences. To include painters and drawers and music and movies and radio and cartoonists and comics and caricaturists and animators and people I've met along the way would be an impossibility. There are just too many in each category and sub-category ad infinitum. As John Lennon famously said, "you see we're influenced by...
read more]]> Stephen Kroninger Mon, 20 May 2013 14:21:48 EDT http://www.drawger.com/bower/index.php?section=comments&article_id=14132 These images are from a sporadic project inspired by the timeless theme of The Folly of Man. As Bruegel's archtypical depiction of the fool or everyman (Eyke) used popular 16th century visual devises to convey meaning through mataphor, this version is contemporarily similar but intentionally less direct. Perhaps it's the fatigue induced by the illustrator's requirement to "illustrate", most often through established metaphors, or maybe it's the magnitude and...
read more]]> Tim Bower Mon, 20 May 2013 13:58:41 EDT http://www.drawger.com/scottbakal/index.php?section=comments&article_id=14214 Out of the entire story, there was this one scene in the book where the main character was having a sort of 'wet dream' about a mysterious snake handler that was helping her out on her property while she is working on her house. A mysterious man; snakes; sex - you can do the math on this one. I decided to go for it with my sketches and Irene went with it. A few of them might have been a bit overt but sometimes, you have to take a chance and see what sticks. This piece is a...
read more]]> Scott Bakal Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:16 EDT http://www.drawger.com/marcoschin/index.php?section=comments&article_id=14220 Recently, I’ve been thinking about the meaning of the word “home.” It’s probably because Mikee and I have started looking for a place to buy. Our search is only several weeks new, but so far we’ve seen about twenty units and counting, mostly coops in various parts of Brooklyn, and until recently, we believe that we may be interested in one particular apartment. This is not a love-at-first-sight scenario. The space we’re offering a bid on is very...
read more]]> Marcos Chin Mon, 20 May 2013 13:17:48 EDT http://www.drawger.com/fisher/index.php?section=comments&article_id=14219
read more]]> Mark Fisher Sat, 18 May 2013 00:25:49 EDT http://www.drawger.com/richardborge/index.php?section=comments&article_id=14217 Meredith Bowen at Capital Business / Washington Post assigned this one. It was my first time working with her, and when asked how she came across my work she mentioned Drawger.  A big thanks to Meredith for the project, who was great to collaborate with!   The article was about: "...focus on the company’s evolution – how the algorithm that inputs all of these things and spits out a steady stream of useable information and trends..."  Seems...
read more]]> Richard Borge Thu, 16 May 2013 18:04:44 EDT http://www.drawger.com/tonka/index.php?section=comments&article_id=14216 I fondly remember my parents buying me magic markers and large spiral pads.  I would open to a white page and feel an excitement and an anxiety.  A white page was and still is, akin to turning on a television.  I might happen upon a thrilling program, one I had not planned on seeing, or I find it a frustrating waste of time.  Many of my old pads from my youth have an attempted portrait, violently scribbled over and then the page is turned.  I wanted to be able...
read more]]> Tim OBrien Thu, 16 May 2013 17:10:05 EDT http://www.drawger.com/dalestephanos/index.php?section=comments&article_id=14215 It's been a rough week for Obama. I imagine he must suddenly be feeling a sense of vertigo, falling from such great heights in such a short span of time. I've been watching Hitchcock movies lately and I thought this shot of Jimmy Stewart would translate the moment well. There have been some terrific illustrations using Hitchcock as source material. Here's Tim O'Brien's from a few years ago using the same shot from Vertigo. I think this was for Entertainment...
read more]]> Dale Stephanos Thu, 16 May 2013 13:26:12 EDT http://www.drawger.com/stevebrodner/index.php?section=comments&article_id=14212 . . . to the judges at the Society of Publication Designers for the 2013 Silver Medal in spot series and other medals of merit for my work this past year. Freelance artists value the feedback  . . . especially this kind! Thanks to the judges:  Jordan Awan, The New Yorker; Sergio Baradat, United Nations Postal Administration; Chad W. Beckerman, Abrams; Joele Cuyler, Real Simple; Jennifer Daniel, Bloomberg Businessweek; Grace Lee, Priest + Grace;...
read more]]> Steve Brodner Wed, 15 May 2013 20:10:40 EDT http://www.drawger.com/kroninger/index.php?section=comments&article_id=14205 In 1986 I was broke. Mark Newgarden hired me to come up with ideas for Garbage Pail Kids at fifty bucks a pop. I don't remember how many fronts I contributed but I did a lot of gags for the backs with Mark. For fifty bucks a day Mark would have me come out to Topps in Brooklyn to sit with him and crack jokes. Some would become gags for the backs of the cards/stickers but mostly I think Mark was lonely out there at Topps all by himself and would invite friends on the pretext of...
read more]]> Stephen Kroninger Wed, 15 May 2013 18:39:33 EDT