Gay Marriage in Cali
By Mark KaufmanFresh illustration that is running in the Queer issue of the Stranger. This drawing accompanies the introduction which offers advice to same sex couples going to California to get married.
Drawmark Roadshow
By Mark KaufmanNext week I’ll be attending ICON 5, the Illustration Conference in New York. I will be hawking my wares/whoring myself out at the Roadshow on July 2. I will be sharing a table with someone, but I don’t know who yet. This is how I envision the evening. That is me on the […]
Sketching After Midnight: John McCain X-Ray Sketch
By Mark KaufmanNew category, Sketching after midnight. I have slips of paper everywhere with random notes, sketches, cartoon and illustration and design ideas. Lot’s of them are done late at night. In the morning or when I find them in a pocket weeks later I have no idea what they mean. Here’s one that I […]
Sign UP! Sheet: Dry Clean Windows
By Mark KaufmanI love hand painted signs. Roadside signs, side of the building signs, retail window signs, I love them all, they are meant to inform and to decorate and serve as a differentiator to the competing business down the street, regardless of artistic or spelling capabilities. I saw these in a local dry cleaner […]
American Affairs Desk: Hillary Clinton Ugggh!
An American Affairs Desk comic from a few weeks back. Hillary turns the table on the Hillary cult…I mean her supporters,
Garden Party
By Mark KaufmanSome very good news today from very good friends and clients, Gavin Groves and TJ Montague Groves of Garden Party Flowers. Better Homes & Gardens Magazine has highlighted their rose stem cleaner in their “Our Favorite Tools” section. The rose cleaning device designed and invented by Mr. Groves is also available for sale […]
Space Junk: Mark Kaufman 1978
By Mark KaufmanI was looking for a business card of someone I met last year, and I came across this. It’s a detail from my School of Visual Arts ID card from 1978. Many things have changed, but strangely in my current official head shot my eyes are also closed. Thirty years on I still […]
Tim Russert R.I.P
By Mark KaufmanMeet the Press moderator and NBC News Bureau Chief Tim Russert passed away today of an apparent heart attack. Tim provided me with countless hours of enjoyment, yelling at my TV during one of his pointless gotcha interviews or mentions of his frickin’ Buffalo Bills. I had even done an American Affairs Desk […]
Portfolio Edit
By Mark KaufmanThese days my portfolios are never current, they are always terribly out of date. I am updating my book for ICON next month, and have hundreds of pieces scattered around the office. I never liked putting a book together, I usually had to do it on a rush basis for a meeting or […]