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Rush 2112 for Rolling Stone
Back in 1979, I was 15 years old and had no idea who I was. Always known as the class artist, I didn't quite imagine I would some day become one or that if this were even possible. My main concern...
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An American Pope
Recently I was asked by the Washington Post to do an illustration of a non-specific, imagined American Pope. Pope Benedict's surprising retirement from being the Pope has been a shock and fuels...
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Tim O'Brien ~ Your Dreams My Nightmares
This past week I sat down in a quiet storage archive, actually the new MoCCA collection room at the Society of Illustrators, to record an episode of Your Dreams My Nightmares with host and creator,...
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Sports Illustrated Cover, 2013
In the summer of 1974, my brothers and I were fatherless and figuring out how to be young men, how to go forward in life. My mom, of course, pulled double duty beginning in those early days and...
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Which Species Will Live?
Conservation triage. That's the term conservationists use to describe the difficult decisions they must make when deciding which species they will focus on saving and those they have to reluctantly...
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Woolly Mammoth ~ Time For Kids
Recently I was asked to do the cover of Time for Kids. The idea was, what if scientists were able to clone back long extinct species, such as the wooly mammoth? The original request was to paint a...
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Dr. Tim O'Brien ~ !
I fondly remember my parents buying me magic markers and large spiral pads. I would open to a white page and feel an excitement and an anxiety. A white page was and still is, akin to turning on a...
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Mother Jones AG GAG cover
I'm not a vegetarian, but I was for a very short time in college, mostly because I was dating an attractive vegetarian. Once that relationship was over I was back to being omnivorous. I love eating...
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The Imaginator
This year I was asked to do a poster and some spots for the Collaborative Summer Library Program, (the CSLP). Many assignments I do are also a collaboration, ironically. I work the the AD on an idea...
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The Bond
Ideas can form quickly, like the ringing of a bell going off in one's head. Others come more slowly and evolve and then suddenly feel ready, and some of my best paintings are slow to evolve. My...
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Norman Rockwell for Smithsonian Magazine
One afternoon when I was in high school, I wandered into the school's library and started looking at some sports books. One that caught my eye was a large volume titled, "The Great Heavyweights." In...
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Playboy Magazine's 60th Anniversary Issue
In 2014 Playboy Magazine celebrates its 60th Anniversary. I was asked to contribute an illustration among a stellar group of artists also in the issue. That scenario always send shivers up my...
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Illustrators 56 at the Society of Illustrators
This Friday, two of my most personal pieces from 2013 will be on display at the Society of Illustrators for the 56 Annual Exhibition. This is the first of the two-part annual exhibition Illustrators...
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Aitzaz Hasan
I was stopped in my tracks. That's what it was like to read the paper this morning and hear about Pakistan's Aitzaz Hasan's heroic act. Aitzaz was a good student according to his family. He was...
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Pope Francis for TIME
Silver linings. At the end of 2013, a tumultuous year for me, I received a call from my good friends at Time Magazine asking if I would take on a portrait of Pope Francis for a possible Person of...
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Beck for Rolling Stone
When I read that Beck’s new album was to be somewhat of a revisiting of his 2002 release of ‘Sea Change’, I began to think of how I was back then and how I am now. I first listened to that recording...
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The God Project for Stanford Magazine
The God Project Recently for Stanford Magazine, I was asked to illustrate an article about the idea of bringing back extinct species. I did art for a similar article a few years ago for Mike Mrak at...
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Adam Silver for Sports Illustrated
Last week I was called by Sports Illustrated to paint the new NBA commissioner and suddenly famous Adam Silver, the for their cover. Adam Silver, as many now know, was thrown into the public...
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Putin for the Wall Street Journal
Our world seems to have an open assignment that some leader seeks to take in every era. Who would seek to be an expansionist leader and rule with intimidation and fear all under the guise of being...
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Back on the Grid
The summer of 2014 was a whirlwind of activity. From a renewal ceremony in June (20 years!) to a sudden major surgery for my son, the summer had to be lean and efficient. I did my work but dropped...
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