Skip to content

Panorama!

My contribution to the funny pages of The San Francisco Panorama, McSweeney’s gigantic, miraculous one-day-only newspaper.

Tue, Mar 23 2010

Silly Sisters

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Mon, Mar 22 2010

The Blue Bird of Happiness

At Moscow Art Theatre, 1908.  More here (search for “blue bird”).

Fri, Mar 19 2010

New in the shop

A triptych of silk-screened prints featuring kids on horses.  If I’m any of them, it’s the smiling, chubby girl in the riding helmet.


Also, a new poster:

Or newly available anyway.  This one’s from The Decemberists Hazards of Love tour last year.

Tue, Mar 16 2010

Asafo Flags

via an ambitious project collapsing.  See more and read about them here.

Tue, Mar 9 2010

February

Mon, Mar 1 2010

Letterheady

Yup, it’s the golden age of obsessive, niche online collections and the blogs devoted to them and I love it.  Sad will be the day that I’ve just seen too many international Hobbit collections, creepy Santa Claus photo collections, and dirty scrimshaw collections to care anymore.  In the meantime, here’s Letterheady, a blog devoted to interesting letterhead.  Some examples:

George Grosz, 1958

Guerrilla Girls, 1995

Nikola Tesla, 1900

Fri, Feb 26 2010

taylor taylor taylor taylor TAYLOR

One of my ex-drawing workshop students started a blog that is weird and awesome.  Ladies and gentleman, I give you Taylor Bancroft:

Yeah, me too.

Also, Dana and I will be teaching this workshop again at the Portland Art Museum next fall.  If you’re a teenager in the Portland area who likes to draw, you should apply.  It’s fun and free.  Visit our page on the museum website or our class blog for more info.

Wed, Feb 24 2010

Amazing, airborne Colin, part 2

Sat, Feb 20 2010

Chester

I’m drawing a map and made a file of nice maps to draw inspiration from.  I was admiring the lettering on this one and realized it’s a map of Westchester County, New York – where I grew up.  I guess the Tappanzee Bridge was named for a part of the Hudson once called the Tappan Sea?


And here’s a photo of me (in the middle) growing up there, 200 some odd years later.  That’s my cute sister, Erica, on the right and our friend Lisa on the left:

Sat, Feb 20 2010