A few years ago, I was contacted by award winning writer Mat Johnson, best known for his Vertigo graphic novels Incognegro, and Dark Rain, and he recently wrote the critically acclaimed novel, Pym. Mat asked me to take part in a collaboration for a comix writing course he was teaching at The University of Houston [...]
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THE FACE OF MOTHERHOOD
I’d been photographing artists, actors and pop culture-figures for various projects for some time, and last spring I was assigned a campaign to shoot 24 “real” people, and that brought me back to earlier works like my 2007 book, The Brooklynites for which I photographed over 300 people from Brooklyn, and it reminded me of [...]
Signs of Sushi
I have had the incredible honor of creating menu art and décor for the Blue Ribbon Restaurants since its inception, and when asked to create art for their newest venture, Blue Ribbon Sushi Izakaya, I couldn’t wait to start. “Izakaya” is a casual drinking and eating establishment in Japan. Typically, seating is low and informal, [...]
JOE SIMON: A PHOTO TRIBUTE TO CAPTAIN AMERICA’S CO-CREATOR
I had the honor of meeting Joe Simon in 2009 when I took his portrait for, LEAPING TALL BUILDINGS: The Origins Of American Comics. Through the efforts of Steve Saffel, his editor at Titan Books, Chris Irving and I were able to visit Mr. Simon at his Manhattan apartment. I was nervous to meet the [...]
JIMMY PALMIOTTI: LEAPING TALL BUILDINGS VIDEO SPOTLIGHT
Jimmy Palmiotti is a writer, editor and multi award winning character creator with a wide range of experience in advertising, production, consulting, editorial, film writing, development and production, media presentation and video game development. Just a few of his clients include Nike, Nickelodeon, Universal pictures, Disney, Warner Brothers, DreamWorks, Lion’s Gate, Vidmark, Starz, Fox Atomic, [...]
KIM DEITCH: LEAPING TALL BUILDINGS VIDEO SPOTLIGHT
Kim Deitch has a reserved place at the first table of underground cartoonists. The son of UPA and Terrytoons animator Gene Deitch, Kim was born in 1944 and grew up around the animation business. He began doing comic strips for the East Village Other in 1967, introducing two of his more famous characters, Waldo the [...]
BUILDING BROOKLYN
In 2008 I was contracted by the Brooklyn-based non-for-profit organization, CAMBA to photograph some of the fascinating individuals associated with their organization. The results were recently collected in a book, BUILDING BROOKLYN, CAMBA, & THE COMMUNITY, designed by John DaPonte, with an intro by my Brooklynites co-author Anthony LaSala and forward by Brooklyn Borough President [...]
Sad Produce
Laura Lee Gulledge is a Brooklyn artist who works as a graphic novelist, freelance scenic painter, and event producer. Her first graphic novel, Page By Paige, is a YALSA 2012 recommended book for young readers. Laura Lee is hard at work on her second graphic novel, designing a rug collection, and developing a multi-disciplinary creative curriculum. [...]
GODZILLA LEGENDS #5
Today sees the release of the GODZILLA comic I drew for IDW Publishing! I’d like to thank editor/writer, Bobby Curnow, for thinking of me when he wrote this great story, and Ronda Pattison for doing such great work coloring. Plus, a tip of the hat to Chris Mowry for lettering & consulting, and big ups [...]
Letters In The Mail
When Stephen Elliott, author and editor-in-chief of THE RUMPUS, invited me to participate in, “Letters In The Mail,“ I was honored and excited to add my sensibilities to a project that attracted writers like Dave Eggers, Marc Maron, Janet Fitch, Nick Flynn, Margaret Cho, Cheryl Strayed, Wendy MacNaughton, Emily Gould, Tao Lin, and Jonathan Ames, [...]
WARE’S WORLD: INSIDE THE HOME OF CARTOONIST CHRIS WARE
In March of 2011, with six months to go before our deadline to turn in Leaping Tall Buildings: The Origins of American Comics to our publisher, writer Christopher Irving and I decided to take part of our advance money to travel to Chicago to cover a few last, important subjects. On top of the list [...]
