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The View?
posted: August 18, 2010
It is with great sadness I report that I missed the episode of The View where the Commander In Chief chatted with some of our country's leading thinkers on issues profound and vast. Oh well. Here's a snapshot.


Some From Summer
posted: August 11, 2010
The July cover for The American Spectator on 'The Ruling Class vs. The Country Class'. The writer’s point is that no one in a position of power in either party - or with a national voice - takes many of the public’s policy objections seriously... and that decisions about money are made in bipartisan backroom deals with interested parties. Welcome to politics as usual... Is one group more crooked than the next?


Detail: Woman's dress does indeed reveal belly button whilst empty martini glass somehow finds a way to splash.


'Cloud Computing' for ON Magazine, Ronn Campisi, Art Director. Always great to hear from Ronn!


One from a new series of works for BODASS - Burning Oil Drums and Skulls aSsociation.


And for Yankee Magazine's special 75th anniversary issue - on the stands September 1... "75 Things Every New Englander Should Do"  - Lori Pedrick, Art Director - who was kind enough to let me post these a bit early. A fine assignment! Here are a few from the article...






And from a recent issue of Barron's.... Economic outlook: 10% chance of sunny skies! Things were beginning to look better some weeks back, but more storm clouds are on the horizon.


Uncle Rebus
posted: July 20, 2010
An indication of a well assigned job is when it comes as naturally as breathing and is pure joy to work on. Pete Hausler from The Wall Street Journal called late Thursday last week with this rebus-like puzzle assignment that runs in today's paper.

I had roughs done and approved before he left for the day on Thursday. This is a bit looser than I normally do roughs, but I would be out of the studio the next day and wanted to try to get the go-ahead...
Details were done with my new Mont Blanc knock-off (a Mont Blanc cartridge fits nicely inside a Pilot G-2 at about .000459 the cost - cool!). I worked in my sketckbook and on various papers and vellum over a few days - without adversley affecting a weekend of serious fun and 4 rounds of golf with 15 buddies in the New Hampshire hills.
I scanned all the pieces and put it all together for a Monday deadline. You can read the story here. It is pretty interesting  - on 'How To Tame Your Nightmares'.
Thanks again, Pete!
(Title inspired by a Frank Zappa song with a similar name... remember Uncle Remus? Oh well.)
Cycling To School
posted: June 30, 2010

David Speranza from Bicycling contacted me after seeing some of my Tea Party illos with an assignment on kids riding to school. A community in Utah has successfully increased the percentage of cycling students from 32 to 50%.
Some ideas seem to come clear on the first go... Here is the initial rough with a color study.

Some ink drawings of bikers...

Finito! Thanks David!
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