Animation: Republican Tricks on Women

In this week's animation, the GOP urges you to step right up to see the greatest circus on earth—the 2012 Republican presidential campaign. The animation, as always, was written, animated, and acted by me. With some nice sound effects from www.freesound.org.

It's also up on Mother jones, here.

Introverts for The Christian Science Monitor

A new one for The Christian Science Monitor book review section, for a book called "Quiet", about the often-overlooked value of introverts. 

And here are a few sketches and preliminary color variations...

Tosca with Maria Callas

For the Wall Street Journal, Maria Callas, Tito Gobbi and Giuseppe di Stefano belting it out in Puccini's Tosca in 1953.

Link to the article on The Wall St Journal

Abortion Rights Under Assault

New pitch on Cartoon Movement:

Feature in Communication Arts

When Rebecca Bedrossian, managing editor of Communication Arts Magazine, called last Fall to tell me they wanted to do a feature about me for their March/April issue, I was delighted (of course!). The issue just came out, and the writer, Caitlin Dover, did a great job of making me sound good. It’s a whole 8 pages and I couldn’t be happier!

The Final Edition: The Holy War

New on The Final Edition, The Holy War

Holy War from The Final Edition on Vimeo.

The first version of the cartoon is up on Mother Jones, but this one for The Final Edition has a few small improvements...

The Wire: Bubbles and Omar

A couple of weeks ago, my friend Joanie told me about a tv show called The Wire, which she said was the best tv show that she's ever seen. So Barry and I have been renting it from Netflix (it's not on the air anymore and anyway I don't have cable tv even if it were still on the air). I LOVE the show. The characters are fully 3 dimensional, with all the ferocity and fragility of real true human beings -- it's not at all black and white. 


So I did this portrait (above) of one of my favorite characters, Bubbles, the earnest, courageous, scroungey drug addict, who briefly saw the light coming from under the door leading out of his addiction this week, only to turn back to peer down the long black hallway he's been trudging for years.


Another favorite character is Omar, the fearlessly murderous stick-up man who is avenging the murder of his boyfriend, Brandon (for those of you familiar with The Wire, I am midway through the first season of episodes). He's terrifyingly tough and also tender, taking brutal revenge in the name of love.

Recent Wall St Journal Portraits

In today's paper, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, plus recent painted portraits of RI Treasurer Gina Raimondo and author Ron Chernow.

Navalny

Raimondo

Portraits for Discover Magazine

I've been doing a portrait every month for Discover magazine; here are 2 new ones.

Phil Hoover, who disarms nuclear bombs

Major General Walsh, of the Army Corps of Engineers. This one is a spin on an old army Corps of Engineers poster from the '40s.