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The Lunch Posts & Wandermonster blog in the Wall Street Journal
Our blog, Wandermonster, and the Lunch Posts are featured in a piece in the Wall Street Journal today. My son Ben enjoyed his first interview and is quoted in the piece. Some images appear in the video piece around 2:07. Please come explore our blog—which has a great new thumbnail archive, thanks to the talented…
Popcorn Noir
Popcorn Noir is our kind of project. Motivated by love of film and community, it’s an exciting example of a crazy idea brought to life, and one sure to become a fixture. We’re just getting settled here in Western Massachusetts, even while I’m commuting weekly back to Brooklyn to teach three classes at Pratt. And…
UnMap Queens show at the Impossible Project
Please join us at the reception for an exhibit of the UnMap Project photos. Thursday, July 28th, from 6pm to 8pm at the Impossible Project, 425 Broadway, 5th Floor, in Manhattan. Impossible Project, sponsor of UnMap Queens, is exhibiting sixteen large-scale prints from the project in their SoHo gallery. UnMap Queens, a collaboration with Carl Gambrell…
How Magazine article on Wandermonster + Lunch Posts
I’ve written a piece for How Magazine, which can be found online and in print at newsstands on Wandermonster, the Lunch Posts, and ideas for creative parenting. I’m thrilled to have this in print, and Ben is now the youngest illustrator to have his work featured in the magazine. Please check it out. Here…
New illustrations for The Rumpus
The Rumpus is literary without being pretentious, perverse without being degrading, serious without ever being boring. And I’m always happy to create illustrations for their paper-less pages as well as here and here and here and here. They claim to update ten times a day, and I always run out of time before I run…
New Addition to the Photos Section: Signage from a Pashtun Deadwood
My bus bumps past Mad Max-style homes, like Super 8 motels behind medieval walls, down a road covered in ornate signs. This is Der’a Adam Khel, a town by the Afghan border in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier, devoted to the manufacture of counterfeit firearms, where men labor with hand tools to craft knock-off weaponry for the…
Thinking of Syria
I have been fascinated, and nervously hopeful, as the people of one Arab country after another assert themselves. Syria is the first of these countries I have actually visited, and my thoughts are with them today. I have added a new category to the “Work” section of this site: “Photos,” which I am inaugurating…
Illustration for Stephen Elliott piece on The Rumpus
We have the good fortune to be illustrating another piece for online culture & literature mag The Rumpus , this time for its editor, our friend from back-in-the-day, the excellent writer Stephen Elliott. His work is filled with sex, sex work, and burnt journals.
Peaceful holidays: Pensive Yeti
My illustration, The Pensive Yeti, is the Christmas “gift” on The Rumpus this morning. A peaceful holiday to all.
Rumpus Illustrations
We’ve created a few illustrations for The Rumpus, an online magazine that, in the words of its editor-in-chief, author Stephen Elliot, is “…focused on culture but not “People Magazine culture.†Featured here is holiday image of a pensive Yeti (or is it Sasquatch with its winter pelt?) for the Christmas Day issue and an illustration…