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My 4 year old self would be happy to know that I grew up to have a job where I get to draw pictures of an ice cream cone licking a TV and a book.  Work doesn't get any better than this.   This is a full page illustration about guilty pleasures in the current issue of Entertainment Weekly.  The AD was Dennis Huynh whom I had lots of great laughs with when I did this piece.  He and I were on the same vibe!  



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Golf’s most famous instructor is Butch Harmon.  For 11 years, he coached Tiger Woods and is considered the best teacher in the game.  He had been struggling with his weight for a while and after changing up his diet, lost a whopping  50 pounds.  I was commissioned by GOLF DIGEST‘s Art Drector, Ken Delago, to create a double page spread in the magazine of sort of a “before and after”, of Butch.  It doesn’t often happen in editorial assignments but my sketch was sent to Butch for approval -  and he ended up liking it.  This was a really fun piece to work on.  Remember folks, eat your veggies!

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Here's an illustration I just did for an article called, "I Work Hard, I Play Soft" in the current issue of The New Yorker.  It's a really funny piece which I related to - very closely!  The AD was Jordan Awan.

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"Solutionism has become a problem, in part, because both the public and the policymakers are so excited about having technology companies step in and solve problems that were previously handled by some public agency or, more likely, were not seen as problems at all. So as gadgets and connectivity become ubiquitous, it becomes possible to track everything we do and thus steer us away from doing things we shouldn't be doing, be it smoking or eating unhealthy food; for policy-makers - and we can already detect some of that rhetoric coming from the pro-nudging crowd - it's much easier to have your smartphone tell you not to eat something than to engage in deep and structural reform that would make other alternatives easier to find. So, at a very basic level, having Silicon Valley handle some of these problems - and its CEOs are keen to emphasize their own commitment to various problem-solving initiatives - may be solving the problems but only at the cost of complicating the life of citizens, placing an additional burden on them." -Evgeny Morozov, about his case against Silicon Vally's "Solutionism" ideology.   This was the cover and inside illustration for today's Sunday Review for The New York Times.  The AD was wonderful Aviva Michaelov, who always calls me for assignments that I immensely enjoy.

Thanks to my pal, Dale Stephanos, who snapped this photo and sent it to me.



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