Steve

Here’s a webanimation riff on a recent portrait I did for Los Angeles Magazine of Mayor Antonio Villaraigossa.  It’s several portraits in different media ovelapping.

In the current Harper’s Frederick Kaufman writes on the vagaries of charity.  Some of the many millions spent by Bill Gates on world hunger are not landing as intended.  Here’s the cover as well as a version animated for the web.

A shout out of great thanks to the annual shows.  So grateful to be in them and working for some of the great people in our field.  Below are  pieces for Stacey Clarkson of Harper’s, Tim Luddy at Mother Jones and Susan Brenneman at the LA Times, all honored to be in the AI 28.  … Read more

In the Irony of Satire, an Ohio State University study, it was found that conservatives, when polled, took Stephen Colbert seriously.  This, along with Barry Blitt’s famous New Yorker cover, begs the question, “Who is this thing we do really for?       Anyway?” Irony is a literary device going back at least to Cervantes.  Caricature goes … Read more

Here’s to Obama’s 100 Days and our obsession with this arbitrary signifier.  This piece for today’s LA Times shows Obama’s achievements, or those in progress, in the tidy out-box on the right.  And then Obama and Bo putting everything else to good use.