Angouleme is a small town. I think I remember someone telling me it was started around 600 AD probably as a fort of some kind. Now they have really fun graffiti that happens for the comic book festival.

I only want to draw everything here.

After a busy and frantic week of work my girl and I will be going to Paris since we worked through the holidays.

For The Week Magazine way back in 2011.

2012 Intro from Fred Harper on Vimeo.

If you are here because I bothered you with a post card, thanks for looking!

I draw and paint everything. My 5 years or so of comics had me drawing everything you can think of. Cars, court rooms, people, spaceships, guns, animals and on and on.
The mural I’ve been working on for the Manhattan Classic Car Club’s uptown garage has been a great chance to paint on a larger scale and paint other things. The height is about ten feet shown here.

I live a block from Zucotti Park where Occupy Wall Street is taking place in New York City. I have deadlines and there is a revolution going on as I try to work. From my vantage, I see the city and the police as causing the problem. They made a racket all damn night! Got up late and walked around the park that is now “occupied” by the police. They don’t look prepared for the weather and they aren’t making any signs. They don’t seem to have the concept of protesting figured out.

Roll it flat

Doing animals is fun. This was about the flat tax that a bunch of Republicans are proposing. The editors wanted this idea. They wanted it clear that they were flattening the road and it should be a black top road. As I painted, I thought of what else the roller could be flattening. We work for peanuts. The roller could be rolling over peanuts and making peanut butter. Of course then I have the design problem of a brown and gray cover.

My studio is a block away from Zuccotti Park. I’ve been taking pictures and walking around the area since about the second day. I saw them the first night they spent there. 100′s of bodies sleeping on the ground. One thing I never hear mentioned is the park is all cement. This is what first hit me when I stumbled out of my studio for a piece of pizza at 3 in the morning. They were pretty determined.

The next thing I noticed was the large amount of police surrounding them. I wasn’t sure what they were doing. Keeping them in or others out? Everyone was pretty laid back about it. I guess they were happy about the overtime? They won’t say where they stand in relation to some of the things the OWS are trying to accomplish. But I think the protest is on their behalf as well. I know the MTA was pissed when the police commandeered some city buses to move the almost 800 march protesters arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge. They support the OWS.

Cutbacks = rats.

For MTA’s union magazine.

Occupy Wall Street. 99%

Wall Street is getting an ear full. Unfortunately the people they are trying to yell at are probably bribing a politician on the weekend.

I hope they make a difference. I have work and therefore no time to join in. I imagine as unemployment rises, there will be more people. There are currently about 100 or more people sleeping in the park (on cement!) every night.

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I did this a few weeks ago. One of those weekends I was actually out of town. Not far away, Asbury Park, NJ. I was asked to hang out and paint at the Visionary Tattoo and Art Festival. Free room and food! Plus I was friends with Jon Lane, the promoter. I also got to meet The Enigma, and hang out more with Chet Zar. Great weekend! And the New York Observer called. I did sketches at the convention and started painting the final when I got home on Monday for the Tuesday deadline.

The Enigma painting done at the convention.