City Wide

These are just a few from a journal project I've been working on the last few months. I've got a box full of drawings from the last year that I've been scanning when there is time. Its a big box, about 1000 drawings. I like to stockpile like that then just throw out the junk later. The drawings are mainly of random city stuff and street scenes from around New York, so for now I'm calling it CITY WIDE. It's kind of like SPREE but with some color and with fewer pictures of people drinking beer.

Ne'er Do Evers, End Up Records

Ne'er Do Evers, led by my friend Chris Buckridge, has a new record out on End Up called 100% Wrong. It rocks. End Up has a great list of Brooklyn talent including Balthrop Alabama, Caithlin De Marrais, and Kyle Fisher. I also did Kyle's cover art last year for Black Milk.
The Ne'ers describe their music as "fifty percent heavy thoughts and fifty percent knee-jerk reactions with a sound best described as full-on in-your-face visceral mooning, a distillation of art, alcohol and attitude—not only intoxicating but mind-numbing in a good way". I put on the rough mixes, started drawing, and this is what I came up with for the cover art.

No Exit

"No Exit", an article by Daniel Lazare in the Oct. 1 issue of The Nation, begins by asking "What does the constitution mean?". This review discusses Laurence Tribe's new book and considers which rights, if any, are specifically guaranteed by the constitution. We are left to wonder if the constitution is anything more than a vague labyrinth in which any meaning can be found.
Rather than "draw" something, a more graphic approach seemed right this time.
Editor: John Palattella