JET

As a huge fan of the group JET, this drawing just came into my head and I had to do it.  If anyone from the group or their management sees this, please contact me.  I want to do your next album cover.  Yeah I'm dreaming but it never hurts to ask.  

Sketches from many moons ago

Looking at old pages of my sketchbook today and I came across these.  Two of the three are still "hot button" issues today- Border Security & The Bear Market.  The Email vs. Snail Mail is an old idea but I don't get to draw snails that often so I couldn't resist.  I also did a drawing about car alarms but lately I'm working on a line of tee shirts for my threadless account.  Threadless.com - that is.  Very cool site.  If you're an artist, it's a must register site IMHO.  I'll be posting pictures of those designs as well, just need more time to get them all together.

Mike'd Up

As I've written before in this blog, I'm a big sports fan.  For years I've listened to sports radio 660 WFAN in New York.  Even though he comes across as a pompous, know-it-all jerk, my favorite talk show host is Mike Francesa.  He's New York's #1 and he'll be the first to tell you that. He hangs up on stupid callers and bludgeons the Mets and Jets which really cracks me up.  He has a long litany of regular callers: Ira from Staten Island, Mike from Montclair, Al from White Plains, Joe D and others but my favorite is Yankee die-hard, Lisa from Whitestone.  She comes across as someone who watches every Yankee game while pacing, smoking Pall Malls & drinking scotch.  But hey, that's just me.

TMZ, the CIA & Uncle Sam

TMZ amazes me, they really do.  They get all the stories and they never seem to be wrong.  We need their sources in the CIA.  It could help the world.  Uncle Sam has always been one of my favorite characters to draw- not when he takes my money- but to draw.  Lately he needs some help so I drew him a new want ad for the 21st century. 

Spring Tee Shirts

These are my latest pieces of tee shirt artwork for Spring 2011.  All are a combination of screen prints, appliques & embroideries.

Big, Bad Wolf, The Hollywoods & Build Your America!

I have alot to scan but I want to include my latest work first from my sketchbook.  The Big, Bad Wolf dressing up as debt is scarier than usual.  My latest comic strip idea is "The Hollywoods".  Need to work on more characters but it's a start.  "Build Your America" just started out as a doodle that morphed into a little spot illustration.  Reminds me of those old 1940's posters with some Russian constructivism mixed in.  A happy accident I call this drawing.  By the way, all my sketches are done with Micron drawing pens- I haven't used a pencil in years.  Don't like the feel of them.  I do love these pens.  Would be lost without them.

Cpl. Blake Miller, Sgt. Mike McGuire & a very Happy Birthday to Chuck Norris

A friend of mine, knowing my affinity of New York Post headlines, pointed out a good one from last week to me.  I think it was about Tiger.  Shocker.  It got me thinking: Whatever became of my favorite NY Post cover person?  Cpl. Blake Miller.  You know the photo.  It was taken by L.A. Times reporter Luis Sinco.  It appeared on the cover of the NY Post in Nov. 2004 with the headline: "SMOKIN'  Marlboro Men kick butt in Fallujah".  Things have not been good for Cpl. Miller over the last six years.
But that picture of him just stays with me.  The same way Eddie Adams' picture in Saigon 1968 does.  Same with Joe Rosenthal's picture at Iwo Jima in 1945.  A slight segue here, I love the NFL and read Peter King's Monday Morning QB every week.  About five years ago he came across Sgt. Mike McGuire in his hometown of St. Louis, he's a IED hunter, real life "The Hurt Locker" guys.  In a strange way I feel like I know him a little bit.  He's served something like four tours in Iraq and this fall he's leading his platoon to Afghanistan.  He's the first thing I look for in Peter's column every week, and judging by the reader response I know I'm not alone (Just this week alone MMQB readers raised almost $200K to the USO for Sgt. McGuire's platoon and six others.  Peter King wants to raise enough money to outfit the other 194 platoons in Afghanistan & Iraq.  Check out USO.org or SI.com- Peter King's column for the link)  As for some lighter fare, it was Chuck Norris' birthday this week- March 10th.
I sent this sketch to Google hoping they'd use it for their logo on Mr. Norris' day.  They didn't.  So I'm sharing it with you.  What do you think?  Should I draw more Chuck Norris?  Let me know.