Up and Down Decade

December 31 A couple of weeks ago some of us began talking about the past decade's all around suckiness, and I started...

Feliz Natal!

December 24 I found this little guy poking in and out of the snow in the backyard.  Turns out he's from Brazil —...

Communication Arts Interview

December 15 I was interviewed recently by CA Magazine.   The story is now up on their website here.

Anthills of the Savannah

December 15 Anthills of the Savannah is part of the series of Chinua Achebe book covers I've been working on.  There...

No Longer at Ease

December 8 'No Longer at Ease' is a new book cover for the Chinua Achebe series I've been working on.  The...

Rock Hall of Fame Concerts

November 23 One of my favorite aspects of illustration is making an image in my studio and seeing it take off and have a life of...

Series for Essence Magazine

November 18 This is a recent series for Essence Magazine.  Founded in 1968, Essence is the first monthly magazine created...

Cubed

November 4 This series of posters for Soulpepper Theatre received a Bronze Cube from The Art Director's Club.  The...

American Illustration 28

November 2 These are seven pieces that were selected for this year's American Illustration Annual.  The show/party is...

for The Atlantic Monthly

October 27 This is an illustration for a book review by Christopher Hitchens in The Atlantic Monthly.  The book is about...

Gallery Group Shows

October 25 This drawing and the one below will be part of Nucleus Gallery's 5th anniversary show in Los...

Recent Portraits

October 19 I'm often asked to do portraits, here's a collection from the past several months for a variety of...

Newsweek Cover

October 18 This is a cover I did for this week's International edition of Newsweek Magazine.  The story, titled...

Shut 'em Down

October 16 Yesterday I was checking out the Emory Douglas show with Kroninger and the subject of Public Enemy came up. ...

NYC kids' book event

October 14 New York City “Sergio” readings, book signing, and drawing demonstration for...

Vancouver Opera trip

October 13 The staff of The Vancouver Opera invited me to their lovely city last week and I had a great time there.   As...

Cubacartel

September 28 Cubacartel is a new spot on Facebook that my friend Carlos Zamora set up to communicate between designers in Cuba...

Geoffrey Grahn, RIP

September 22 Very sad news from theispot: "This past summer marked the loss of a young, talented artist, Geoffrey Grahn,...

Lunatic fringe

September 19 This is an illustration for Liberty Magazine about how the Christian Right has overstepped Constitutional boundaries...

Little Moments

September 18 I was at Barnes & Noble and came across this.  A display of a recent book cover I did for...

Controlled Chaos...

September 15 It's never been this bad...While I work on projects, things get crazy in my studio.  When things wind down,...

Photographs

September 14 These are some of my recent photos.  Some of the ideas that I find while taking pictures eventually work...

Princeton Book Festival

September 10 This Saturday, September 12, I'll be at the Princeton Children's Book Festival, 11am to 4pm, meeting kids...

Newsweek Cover

September 7 This is my cover for this week's Newsweek International cover, "Learning to Love the Bomb, How nuclear...

Chip Kidd Interview

August 26

Girls at War

August 21 This image is a for the book cover of "Girls at War and Other Stories" by Chinua Achebe.  Part of the...

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

August 5 This is a painting I did for an ad campaign for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 25th Anniversary...

Hopes and Impediments

July 30 This is a new cover for the series of books by Chinua Achebe I've been working on.   The book is a...

Obsessions show at NY Times

July 13 I'm showing a lot of drawings from my sketchbooks at this show put together by Leanne Shapton, Nicholas Blechman...

Show at Giant Robot

July 10 This is a small piece for a big show at GRNY.   The show will open next Saturday, July 18th.  The full...

Interviewed by Yuko!

July 9 Yuko interviewed me for a new feature in Japan's "Illustration" magazine.  The interview will be...

Today's Op-Ed on Honduras

July 7 This is for today's New York Times Op-Ed about the coup in Honduras.  The article is online here.  One...

Work Selected by CA & 3x3

July 7 These are a number of images from the past year that were selected for the Communication Arts and 3 x 3 illustration...

Portraits for VH1

July 1 These were four portraits that I did for a book published by VH1.  They go at the four corners of a large map...

Emory Douglas: Black Panther

June 30 I came across this info about an upcoming show at The New Museum in NYC.  Looks great, thought I'd pass it...

Madoff for WSJ

June 29 This portrait of Bernie Madoff was for this weekend's Wall Street Journal.  He's to be sentenced on...

My First Portfolio

June 23 I thought I’d write a little about how I started out in illustration.  There are a lot of students...

From the Rooftops of Iran

June 20

Norma for The Vancouver Opera

June 19 This is the final image for The Vancouver Opera's 50th Anniversary Season.  All of the artwork is now on...

Iran Op-Ed and Persepolis

June 17 This is for today's New York Times Op-Ed page article about Iran.  Full article at the NY Times site...

The Starfish Project

June 15 Many of us first got into art to make an impact or affect change in some way.  Making a living out of art is...

Iran Elections

June 13 I've been following the results of the Iranian election and thought I'd put some video here.  Pretty...

The Ark Project

June 12 I was invited by DGPH in Argentina to participate in The Ark Project.  The idea of the project is to create an...

Sotomayor Triplets

June 9 The week that Sotomayor was nominated by Obama I got three separate assignments to do a portrait of her from TIME...

School Visit

June 9 I was invited by Mrs. Catanzaro to come to her second grade class and talk about writing and illustrating my...

The Marriage of Figaro

June 8 This poster for 'The Marriage of Figaro' by Mozart is part of the series of posters I've been working on...

Obama in Cairo

June 5

20 years ago

June 4

A video about my Sergio books

May 29

SERGIO Saves the Game!

May 27 My new kids’ book Sergio Saves the Game! is now available here at Amazon.com and through local...

Extremism for TIME Magazine

May 20 These are a couple of images I've done recently for the Asian edition of TIME magazine.  The one above is...

Francis Bacon at the Met

May 20 Francis Bacon is one of the many artists I've admired, along with Picasso, Paul Klee, Matisse, Kathe Kollwitz,...

Jennifer

May 10 Late one evening in the winter of 1991, I ran out of my college dorm room in Brooklyn to catch the first glimpse of...

'Nixon in China' Poster

May 7 This poster for the opera Nixon in China is part of the series of images I've worked on The Vancouver...

For The New Yorker

May 4 These are a number of images I've done for The New Yorker magazine over the last couple of months. ...

Madame Butterfly Poster

April 23 I was commissioned by The Vancouver Opera to create a series of posters for their 2009-2010 season of...

Marcel Dzama music video

March 27 Below is a music video from the band Department of Eagles for a song titled "No one does it like you". ...

Dellas Graphics Frog

March 24 Every year, Dellas Graphics in Syracuse publishes a promotional calendar and they ask a number of illustrators to...

Posters for a series of plays by Tony Kushner

March 24 I was commissioned by SpotCo to create posters for a series of Tony Kushner plays being performed at the Guthrie...

Carbon con Leche

March 17 This is a selection from a series of drawings I've been working on and off on for many years now.   They're...

Today's Op-Ed on the I.R.A.

March 16 Today's Op-Ed is about the recent killing of two soldiers and a police officer in Northern Ireland by a splinter I.R.A....

A very early painting

March 11 This is a painting I did back when I was 18, one of my early attempts at painting with oil.  When I was in high...

Nukular

March 5 These are a couple of illustrations I did for Newsweek magazine.  The topic is nuclear fingerprinting.  ...

Work Selected for Society of Illustrators Advertising Exhibition

February 26 These are five of my images from the past year that were selected for the Society of Illustrators Advertising...

Nice surprise in the mail

February 24 Just got these in the mail today.  The first bound copies of my next kids' book, Sergio Saves the Game!  ...

Cover for "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros

February 23 This is a  cover I did for the 25th anniversary edition of “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra...

Poster for "Heaven on Earth", a new film by Deepa Mehta

February 19 This is a poster I worked on for Heaven on Earth a new film by Academy Award Nominee Deepa Mehta.   The film...

Cover for The Washington Post Book World

February 17 This is a cover I did last week for The Washington Post Book World.   They were reviewing three books about...

Cover for The New Republic Magazine

February 16 This is a cover I did for the current edition of The New Republic.   The cover article is titled...

Series for Runner's World Magazine

February 13 This is a series of images I worked on for Kory Kennedy over at Runner's World.  The story is about the pain that...

Work selected for Society of Illustrators Book and Editorial Exhibition

February 5 These are three images from the past year that were selected for the Society of Illustrators Book and Editorial...

Phil Selway of Radiohead for 'Cut to the Drummer' show

February 2 I was invited by Sandra Dionisi of the Bepo + Mimi Project to participate in an exhibit titled 'Cut to the Drummer', an...

Todays Op-Ed: Obama and Iran's nuclear aspirations

February 2 Today's NY Times Op-Ed is about how Obama will handle the situation with Iran.  The full article is...

Bartalos in Antarctica

January 24 Fellow illustrator Mike Bartalos is working on a project in Antarctica this month.   Here's a blog hosted by...

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January 20 Good luck, Mr. President!

James Jean show at Jonathan Levine gallery

January 10 Here are some pictures from James' show last night at Jonathan Levine gallery.  It opens to the public tonight....

The Middle East

January 4 This is a NY Times Op-Ed illustration from last week.  The article is titled "Why Israel Feels...

2008 Notable Op-Ed Art

January 4 This Op-Ed piece I did on Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe was selected for The New York Times "Notable Opinion Art of...