Jack Kemp. Shitting Out Footballs.
By Mark Kaufman With the passing of football/taxcut hero Jack Kemp, I searched my sketchbooks from 1996 and came up with these sketches on the Dole/Kemp campaign. Most people will remember Jack Kemp as the sunny face of supply side economics and enterprise zones, a relentless tax-cut promoter, ex-quarterback and congressman from Buffalo. I always […]
Work Lunch
By Mark Kaufman I spent part of my day in a room full of venture capitalists, CEO’s, bankers, politicians, salesmen, consultants and think tank academics. I would like to wish them all a Happy May Day.
Sex Survey: Which Obama Admin Member Would You Like to Have Sex With?
2009 Stranger Sex Survey = Sexy, Sexy Peter Orzag.By Mark Kaufman Would you do Barack Obama? Michelle? Rahm Emanuel? Janet Napolitano? Find out how respondents to The Stranger Sex Survey voted and see large version of my illustration of the White House Office of Carnal Relations here.
American Affairs Desk: Cheney Word Cloud of Torture
By Mark Kaufman Well it looks like this is the end of Rico. After over two years of writing and drawing American Affairs Desk, this will probably be the last one that sees print. I had a great run, but for financial reasons The Stranger dropped the strip, and my agreement with The Cornell Sun […]
Another One Bites the Dust
By Mark Kaufman Gold dust that is. Conde Nast is shuttering Portfolio. Go ahead have a good cry. For all of the bad news surrounding magazines, newspapers and publishing, here’s one that I don’t think I really give a shit about. If ever a magazine was wrong for the times it seems that Portfolio is […]
Stumble Bum Fridays: Banksy//Subway Life//Exploding Dog
Banksy, Subway Life and Exploding DogBy Mark Kaufman In the last couple of installments of Stumble Bum Fridays, I was too lazy to find illustration or drawing related sites and stopped at interesting design related sites. I was a bit off the fungible mission of illustration related sites. I spent extra time today to find […]
Pop Rocks
By Mark Kaufman Here’s a fragment of a new illustration I did for an article on the recent Pop Conference at the experience music project here in Seattle. Rock critics and music geeks blathering on about rock and pop and the hippity hop. Read all about it and see the entire illustration in all it’s […]
Big Book of Green Design
We are pleased to announce that we have several entries in the forthcoming BIG BOOK OF GREEN DESIGN coming out in August 2009 from HarperCollins Publishers. Our work was cited for our collaborations with the City of Bellevue, WA. Projects to be in the book include a booklet and traveling display on reducing our carbon […]
Drawmark Memory Hole: American Exceptionalism
By Mark Kaufman Here’s one from the Bush years that the Teabagging phenomenon brought to mind. Simply replace the world with a map of America and I think I could move a lot of these on right-wing websites in anticipation of the July 4th Tea Parties.