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.

It's small, after all

Submitted two logos to a competition, a few weeks ago, for a startup site having something to do with social networking. Or, er, something. For the first one, I was encouraged to use the Fibonacci spiral, and represent the company pictographically; for the second, they were looking for something more Web 2.0.