This Sat night I have two pieces in an awesome benefit show for Art Center's Mini Lai scholarship fund for illustration. It's a one night only show with art mostly under $300! There will be lots of great art from alums like Calef Brown, Rob & Chris Clayton, Tavis Coburn, Alex Gross, Andrew Hem, Jason Holley, Tara McPherson, Martha Rich, Mark Ryden, Aaron Smith, Mark Todd, Ed Ushiro, Jaime Zollars and many more. Hope to see you there!

I have an illustration in this weekend's New York Times Book Review. Thanks a bunch to one of my favorite ADs Nicholas Blechman for the assignment.

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I have an illustration in the New York Times Op-Ed today. It's for an article about re-visiting Haiti after the earthquake. A really moving and interesting first person account. Thanks always to awesome AD Aviva Michaelov. If you are interested in the Op-Ed section there's a great online feature about the Op-Ed turning 40 that was released last weekend. Aviva had a hand in including some great illustration, and watching the video makes me proud to be an illustrator for such a legendary newspaper.

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Super excited to be in the most recent Hospital Brut (special Asiatroma Japan issue) by Le Dernier Cri. I've been a longtime fan of this awesome french publisher/collective, so it's an honor to be included in one of their books, especially with the likes of Stu Mead, Gary Panter, and Jonathon Rosen. You can buy this limited edition, serigraphed book here. warning: book and website are NSFW.

pics via Pakito Bolino & Le Dernier Cri

About 6 months ago I worked on a couple of book covers for Little, Brown & Co. They were just released, so I can finally show them off. Here are the two final covers which look great with the clean sans serif type treatment, thanks to AD and designer Keith Hayes.

The Collector cover was a winner immediately, but Daniel Martin went through a few changes before we hit on the winning design. I like them all, but in the end the publisher decided to go with a much cleaner and innocuous image, which I think still turned out fantastic. Here are a few of the ones that didn't make it.

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I am really proud of my new piece in today's New York Times. It is about a new test that predicts Alzheimers. The sun is shining through to give it a hopeful note. I really love how it came out. Thanks a bunch to Aviva over at the Op-Ed.

sketch:

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Here's a little something I'm working on. Thanks to Rob Clayton for the cool pic.

Here's a small series of Yokai illustrations. Yokai are Japanese demon/spirits, and all of these are based on real folklore.

Rokuro-Kubi: a woman who's neck uncontrollably stretches.




Hayakume: a Yokai who guards temples from vandals and thieves. If he sees a thief, one of his eyes flies off and attatches itself to the theif.

Dorotabo: A dead farmer who resembles a rotting corpse and haunts his abused land.

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I've got an illo in today's New York Times letters section on doctors who monitor tortured detainees. Here's the final and some sketches. Thanks a bunch to Kim Bost for this one!

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Here's a little slide show portfolio of most of my recent work. don't know how I'm going to use it yet, but it's pretty cool.

The Playboy Jazz Fest is tomorrow at the Hollywood Bowl! Here's an illo I did for Sax for Stax featuring Gerald Albright, Jeff Lorber and Kirk Whalum. It will be in the official jazz fest catalog. Thanks to AD Fred Fehlau.

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Here are some new haunted house pieces for the next post-it show at Giant Robot in New York. Thanks to Mark Todd and Esther Watson for continuing to include me in these shows! With this continuing series, I'm starting to think about the physical idea of a house and the energy that is left behind when it no longer exists.

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Here's a small abstract piece for a show at Ottawa's Canteen Gallery opening May 15th.

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Here are some new grotesques. It's kind of amazing how many people like this series. Attraction and repulsion are exactly what I'm going for...and it's just plain fun painting flawed people.

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I've been away working on some top secret projects and moving...but now I'm back. I've been wanting to do more portrait work, so here are a few I've been messing around with.

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