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In reaction to the current gun debate, cartoonist Rubin Bolling aka Ken Fisher, organized cartoonists for this video: http://www.demandaction.org/cartoonists it includes Roz Chast, Art Spiegelman,Steve Brodner,Tom Tomorrow and Gary Trudeau among many others. Check it out.

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The travel packet given to me by the British embassy had the tag line: " The only thing you have to fear about Colombia is, you may never want to leave!"















I couldn't agree more. I'm going back in September with more art supplies.

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Limited edition artists book, my adaptation of Franz Kafka's The Top





A Modest Propsal Limited edition silk screen print 15"x 31"



The Metamorphosis (Limited edition silk screen print)



Give It Up! Each  silk screen print from this portfolio (of 5 prints) is 21"x 30"



Another limited edition accordion book



A portfolio of artists from World War 3 Illustrated which accompanied a 30 year retrospective of the magazine.





 From a portfolio of 30 different artists creating work based on the title : Binary Inventions



Like I said, a surreal joy...



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In a strange twist of fate, I have found myself writing and drawing Spy vs Spy every issue for the last 16 years! (Insert your comment here) 1)"I didn't know MAD was still being published!" 2) "The last time I read it I was, like, 14!" 3) " MAD isn't as good as it used to be..." 4) COOL!!!!!! To commemorate this historic fact, I am making some of the original art available for purchase FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME!! (OK that's a lie, I've been selling Spy art for years). Now is a RARE OPPORTUNITY to get in really good with that irritating nephew,cousin or father-in-law with a surprise gift that will show you are much hipper/more interesting than you first appeared.(Or say that's why you bought it and then keep it for yourself.) So, don't miss this RARE OPPORTUNITY to own Spy vs. Spy... 1) PUBLISHED COLOR ART, 2) FINISHED PENCILS, 3) SKETCHES (our prices, cheap), and feel like one of the usual gang of idiots.



















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New York has inspired me from my first visit at age nine. I set my sights on moving here (from Cleveland) from that moment and at eighteen I stepped off a train in Grand Central Station. Drawn To New York includes some of my earliest drawings from the 1980's  right up to work created a few months ago. From comics to sketchbook drawings, illustrations and paintings, Drawn to New York is a portrait of my thirty-four years on twelve miles of island with eight million people.





















Since the crash of 2008 I have found it more difficult to find US publishers willing to do the kind of full color hard cover books I want to do like this, so I've found myself migrating to other countries. Drawn To New York came out last fall in a Spanish edition and will be published in France next fall. The only English edition is as an e-book. An avowed luddite, I never expected to find myself in the digital world, but when I was approached by the new e-book publisher Bemis Balkind, I decided I'd rather have my book available than not. With publishers taking fewer and fewer chances, this is the path I find myself taking. I have to admit, seeing this book on a (borrowed) ipad and having the art looking so luminous and digitally flipping the pages like a book opened a door.I will leave print, kicking and screaming, but intend to further explore the possibilitites presented by e-books. Particularly the area where books that are long out of print may find a new life and audience in this form. If, unlike me, you are the owner of an ipad You can get all 200 pages of Drawn To New York here:   http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/drawn-to-new-york/id493336924?mt=11 If you speak Spanish (most of the book is wordless so you can still get most of it), you can find a real live hardcover of the book here: http://sextopiso.com/mex/art_detalle.php?ida=252      





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