I was fortunate enough to land a great gig with Twoseven Inc. They had a design job. The client, Hermes, wanted a comic book style for their store windows on Madison and 62nd St. Some people still remember me as a comic book artist… from the early 1990’s! Comics aren’t something you really ever forget how to do. So I gave it a shot and they really liked it.

An establishing shot. There was no story really. They just wanted the feeling there was. I tried to suggest more story and began to take some risks by injecting some critters in the panels.

Some panels were pretty large. Painted with latex paint using a range of different brushes. Sandpaper was my eraser!

I moved to Manhattan from Brooklyn last month. Still feeling like I was fresh out of college and grossly underestimating how much crap I had accumulated, it was a colossal pain in the arse. My friends came by and really helped out. In less than a month, I went to California twice. Opening at Copro Nason Gallery in LA where I had a piece in a group show. fharper.com for the type of work I show in galleries. (warning: it’s not work safe!) Spent a week in New York finishing the packing and doing a deadline. Then to San Diego for the Comic Con. Came back to NYC and finished moving what I couldn’t fit the previous week! Plus more deadlines. Not every piece I did fits what I focus on, but here is a few…

Cover for The Week Mag. Obama tries to bail out the sinking healthcare reform.

See, not what I usually do, but fun and challenging any way! Cover for The Week Mag.

Cover for The Week.

For an online blog. I don’t remember the name off the top of my head.

Been channeling R. Crumb this afternoon to come up with a nice portrait for a special client. Had a great day walking around the SoHo and West Village area in Manhattan. Ended up at my gym on 14th St. and then “Cup of Joe” coffee shop before getting on the “L” train back to Bushwick. I wish I could freeze everyone in place for a few hours sometime so I could draw everyone I see. There were some great faces riding back to Brooklyn with me today!

I don’t always get assignments that are exactly what I do. Here are a few that come close for Sports Illustrated. Most clients come to me with an idea they want. Most don’t consider it might be out of my “specialty”, ie. caricatures and cartoons. But I try and handle any curve ball that comes in. I try to be a good curve-ball hitter. I like to hit them out of the park. I always have home-field advantage in my studio. I’m rarely on the DL. I’m a DH for illustration. I load the bases with experience. My analogies have run a-foul.

CC Sabathia

Pedroia

Obituary for Herb Score.

If you are reading this, you are close enough. Thanks for staring. I hope to update this thing at least once a week with new work. Depending on how busy I am, I’ll probably do it more. Practice makes… Practice makes me tired. I probably won’t have comments working due to the spam bots, so e mail me directly, I won’t bite.

This is a Garbage Pail Kid from the recent set that came out.