This is my new favorite 404.

Book sale

Book sale
Originally uploaded by RichMilNix

Poster, 2008.

Poster for a benefit performance.

Street scene

Worked on this three or four hours today, and I don't know whether I'm committed enough to it to do the remaining six or so it will take to finish it the way I've envisioned it. (I'm finding that ten hours is the magic number. That's about how long it takes for me to get something so finished that i'm ready to send it out the door.

It takes alot of work to make something look like it was made with construction paper and craft glue.

all this stuff

The bother-in-law* has posted, more succinctly than I ever would have, the explanation:


And I know, it's been a while.
It'll be a while longer, terribly busy.
As are we all, I suppose.
And yet.
There's all this stuff, you see.




(Haiku formatting mine.)

*The typo was accidental at first, but was also perfect, though not, I assure you, true.

Prehistory

Here's some stuff from a hundred years ago that doesn't really fit in anywhere now. First off, another Mingus:

This is from a Death of a Salesman production that featured Brian Dennehy:

This is a drawing that wasn't of Alfred Hitchcock, but enough people finally had 'recognized him that I would consider just claiming that it is, but it's not a very good likeness of him, so what are you going to do:



Here's a line drawing of the School of Visual Arts, and I know Milton Glaser did teh poofy flower logo, but as far as I'm concerned, this one remains the real thing:



And finally, some spot illustrations that I wish I had in a nicer format than this squashed .jpeg, but wishes horses beggars.

Unfair

Probably good for nothing at all unless you click to enlarge (not that it's good for much if you do).

I don't remember

who he was, but he looks like a very nice man.

Judy Garland & Susan Sontag?

Maybe? Who knows?

Mingus

Look, it's time I start filling this blog with some of the self-obsessed dross for which it was created. Near-finished illustrations are nice and all, but they aren't sketches.



If I keep posting old sketch pages here, you'll see more of Charles Mingus. He's often in my thoughts and in my sketchbooks, and my dream project remains a 200-page comic detailing some episodes from his life. The note to myself on the right side of the image here reads:


Mingus, for all that his experience was defined by his color, doesn't seem from photographic evidence to have been very dark. His Asian-American features ensure that he couldn't 'pass' - but he was complected lighter, like Malcolm - not Miles -

was this one more barrier?

half yaller schitt colored motherfucker.

That last was a phrase that came from, I think, Charles's father - I forget the citation, but it was probably Beneath the underdog or Priestley's book (or Gene Santoro's book, come to think of it). It was not a compliment.