Fall Round-up

Here's a round-up of my illustrations from the past few months!

"Ox Mountain Death Song," The New Yorker, October 29 & November 5, 2012

Hunters, The New Yorker, October 15, 2012

"Wuthering Heights," The New Yorker, October 8, 2012

Julia Holter, The New Yorker, September 3, 2012

Saadat Hassan Manto, newyorker.com, August 30, 2012

 

"The Challenges of Adult ADHD," American Medical News, August 6, 2012

Recent illos

"Wild Flag," The New Yorker, April 2, 2012

"The Dark Knight Rises," The New Yorker, June 4-11, 2012 

"When Key Employees Clash— Experts: Jim Southern and Peter Kelly," Harvard Business Review, June 2012

Here are some pieces from the past few months. "The Dark Knight Rises" illustration and the HBR portraits are on newsstands now. 

For fun, I put together an unedited, behind-the-scenes look at the making of a few illustrations. You can see the Wild Flag process here.

Citizen Conn

"Citizen Conn," The New Yorker, February 13 & 20, 2012

My first full page for The New Yorker illustrates "Citizen Conn," a new short story by Michael Chabon. I'm a big fan of Chabon's—The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay inspired my senior project at Pratt and a while back I did a few illustrations that ran in "The Escapists," a Dark Horse comic series sequel to Kavalier & Clay. This short story is a return to the world of comic book creators for Chabon.

I had longer for this piece than a typical NYer illustration and much of the time was spent conceptualizing. Here are the thumbnails:

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Four of thumbnails were chosen and developed into rough sketches:

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There was some debate among the editors as to whether to go with a literal scene from the story or not. As a result, two of the roughs were asked to be developed into final inks.

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The literal direction won out in the end (although I went back to the drawing board one more time!).

"Citizen Conn" appears in this week's issue of The New Yorker.

Black Star

"Black Star," The New Yorker, December 5, 2011

Mos Def and Talib Kweli formed Black Star in the late 90's as a response to gangsta rap. They are currently on tour and will be at New York's Best Buy theater on December 3rd.

I just read that Mos Def is changing his name to Yasiin. He'll always be Ford Prefect to me...

Gillian Welch

"Gillian Welch," The New Yorker, October 24, 2011

Here's my illo of singer-songwriter Gillian Welch for this week's New Yorker (along with some early sketches before I went in a "more Gillian / less cowboy hat" direction) and here's a song from her latest album, "The Harrow & The Harvest"—



She's performing at the Beacon Theater in New York on Saturday, October 22.

House of Bamboo

"House of Bamboo," The New Yorker, August 29, 2011

Here's a quick NYer illo I did for Sam Fuller's House of Bamboo— "starring... Robert Ryan as the ruthless kingpin of Tokyo's post-war underworld!"

High Places

"High Places," The New Yorker, August 15, 2011

Above is an illo of High Places I did for the NYer. Also included is an alternate sketch and an early palette direction (I liked the looks of it but didn't think it would reproduce well).

This was an especially fun piece because the WFoFers know Rob from our days at Pratt!

New Illos!

New piece for Annemarie Neff at American Medical News about the upcoming influx of twenty-somethings to the healthcare system thanks to the Obama plan.

New piece for Rob Schultz at MacWorld about creating safe wifi ipad/laptop network when you're on the road.

New piece for Scott Dvorin at the Observer.  These are fun one day turnaround pieces.  After about 6 hours of frantic work, they're a nice sense of accomplishment, and reason to go out for a happy hour beer!;)

Big Sandy & His Fly Rite Boys

Hope everyone had a nice long weekend! Here's a quick illo I did for the NYer:

"Big Sandy & His Fly Rite Boys," The New Yorker, June 6, 2011

Check him out in action here:

When Your Cash Flow Slows

"When Your Cash Flow Slows," American Medical News, May 16, 2011

Read about doctors' "tactics for tight times" here.

Thanks, Jennifer!

For Asgard!

"Thor," The New Yorker, May 9, 2011

Here's an illustration I did for the upcoming "Thor" movie for the New Yorker. The assignment was well-timed— I had spent the day before reading "The Ballad of Beta Ray Bill," the opening arc of Walter Simonson's legendary run on The Mighty Thor.

art by Walter Simonson

Here's the movie trailer:

Opens May 6th! Can't wait!

Emily's got it covered.

Emily's work is featured on the cover of PUSH Stitchery: 30 Artists Explore the Boundaries of Stitched Art from Lark Books. It's out this September but you can preorder your copy here!

Here's the uncropped version of "Hey Courbet":

Hey Courbet, Emily Eibel, 2009

Illo dump!

Here are a couple of new illustrations for The New Yorker, plus some sketchbook stuff:

"Warpaint," The New Yorker, April 4, 2011


"Bill Cunningham," The New Yorker, March 21, 2011

(in case you're wondering, yes, they're all on a conference call with each other)

PCWorld Spot

New spot for Beth Kamoroff at PCWorld about Firefox creating software to make it's users untraceable to advertisers.  I have a few more to upload - but blogger is being a real pain with not allowing pics up . . .If anyone has a solution for the dreaded "server rejected" thing that pops up, I'd love to know!

I haven't posted on WFOF in a while! Here are some illos from the past few months...

The New Deal Pieces!

Had another opportunity over MLK weekend to work with the great Larry Gendron from The Deal.  The magazine uses lots of illustration and great illustrators, so it was really nice to get a cover and interior piece.  The basic angle on the piece was about risk management, and companies changing their financial stances to be more protected.   I got going on this sort of circus theme with the first two sketches and was really happy that Larry wanted to use both.  It made for a long weekend, but a good one.  I even squeezed in a little cross country skiing with the fam, and a gigantic leg of lamb dinner courtesy of my Aunt Grace and Uncle John.