"Philosophy in cartoons? There's always been a lot more philosophy in cartoons than is generally acknowledged."
— from a customer review of Derrida for Beginners
— from a customer review of Derrida for Beginners
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Update / Tuesday 9 August 2022: Today an internet word game randomly generated the phrase "Fearsome faucet sauce" and a player name Allon was very pleased with this accident, and brought it to our attention. It suddenly occurred to me that I have at least two versions of that very subject in my archives of old illustrations, one from 1963-64 and this from 2016. So Allon— as promised, here it is. If the earlier drawing shows up I may post that too.
Or I may instead use this prime homepage real estate for other priorities, such as promoting my first one-man show since 1966, which will run from Sept. 1 through Nov. 18th at the Lyceum Gallery, Suffolk County Community College, in the pine barrens north of Speonk. Exact dates and opening reception is still being decided. Digging through six decades of work, deciding what goes in... Lots of discoveries of pictures I don't remember at all, and some I remembered as lousy are looking good to me (as my standards slip in my old age). I'll try to set up an online version here for those of you who dare not brave the Speonk wilderness...
Or I may instead use this prime homepage real estate for other priorities, such as promoting my first one-man show since 1966, which will run from Sept. 1 through Nov. 18th at the Lyceum Gallery, Suffolk County Community College, in the pine barrens north of Speonk. Exact dates and opening reception is still being decided. Digging through six decades of work, deciding what goes in... Lots of discoveries of pictures I don't remember at all, and some I remembered as lousy are looking good to me (as my standards slip in my old age). I'll try to set up an online version here for those of you who dare not brave the Speonk wilderness...
Farewell to Australia after 3 good years. Feels like leaving home. Sketches of ironbark grove by me. Snapshot of our dwelling by the eminent snapshooter Ms Sasha Willis.
Late January 2021:
No news to share at present. No announcements. But that should change.
Been working on long-term project(s) and will post samplings here eventually.
Most of what you probably came for can be seen in Portfolios (click above).
Feel free to use the Contact page here, but you'll get faster results if you email me (send it again a couple of times to improve the odds I'll see it): [email protected]
above, a couple of recent portrait commissions, and November 2018 Graphics & Comics exhibition
Above left a capsule history of the Caribbean 1790-1992, for Schenkman Books.
Center Cover art for THE BERKUT, thriller by Joseph Heywood, Random House 1987. Right AN OCEAN APART, Random House 1988, based on a BBC series about US-UK relations. |
Once upon a time, the top guy at the Random House art dept. needed someone who could draw an eagle. He figured a political cartoonist should know how, and heard a rumor of a misplaced political cartoonist at the Wall St Journal portrait factory, trying to figure out how make portraits out of little ink-specks. The phone rang. "Hey, Howl, it's for you!" said one of the crew.
"I need an eagle, and I need it fast!" said Bob. "Coming right up!" said I. So for the first time in my life i drew an eagle. It wasn't great, but at least it looked like an eagle, sort of, and it turned out to be the first of several. The two above came after some practice. (See below for an example of a reject!) |
Slide show (below)
drawn from life caricatures at the Cancer Council's Big Morning Tea, Toowoomba QLD, 11 May 2018... plus some from the Toowoomba Regional Council's Volunteer Appreciation Day 24 May 2018, with photos and some smaller drawings by Lee Groves. |
Below: Some art from the archives reborn as hypothetical wine labels
Portfolios include
Nudes
(mostly 2017, but some going back as far as 1969)
Trees
(mostly 2017),
Graphic design etc.,
(a mix of newspaper pages, maps, posters, and a lot else, various dates)
and
London sketchbooks, 2001-2010
The largest portfolio by far is
Portraits, Caricatures, Cartoons
which goes on forever and a day.
It starts off with some
Random House
cover art, then rambles on through innumerable illustrations done for
WSJ
NY Times
Newsday
and
The Guardian
(also AdWeek, Esquire, Lincoln Center, Smithsonian Museums, etc, etc),
most of which were published between 1985 and 2003.
It concludes with some recent portraits from life, and a sampling from Proust for Beginners (published 2016).
Work history (clients, awards and such) can be found on the
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page.
FOR PORTRAIT & CARICATURE COMMISSIONS,
TO CONFIRM CLASS SCHEDULE,
FOR PRIVATE TUTORING,
TALKS, GUEST-TEACHING, ETC . . . .
email: [email protected]
Nudes
(mostly 2017, but some going back as far as 1969)
Trees
(mostly 2017),
Graphic design etc.,
(a mix of newspaper pages, maps, posters, and a lot else, various dates)
and
London sketchbooks, 2001-2010
The largest portfolio by far is
Portraits, Caricatures, Cartoons
which goes on forever and a day.
It starts off with some
Random House
cover art, then rambles on through innumerable illustrations done for
WSJ
NY Times
Newsday
and
The Guardian
(also AdWeek, Esquire, Lincoln Center, Smithsonian Museums, etc, etc),
most of which were published between 1985 and 2003.
It concludes with some recent portraits from life, and a sampling from Proust for Beginners (published 2016).
Work history (clients, awards and such) can be found on the
ABOUT
page.
FOR PORTRAIT & CARICATURE COMMISSIONS,
TO CONFIRM CLASS SCHEDULE,
FOR PRIVATE TUTORING,
TALKS, GUEST-TEACHING, ETC . . . .
email: [email protected]