Horney Love Monkey
By Mark KaufmanAnother in the series of illustrations to accompany Valentine sentiments published in the newspaper. This one read as follows: HORNY LOVE MONKEY Jackie, I love you and have missed you terribly while you were gone. Smooches, Your Little Love Monkey. Ain’t love grand?
Lucky 13
By Mark KaufmanI set a personal best this week in the Valentine’s Day issue of The Stranger. I had 13, count ‘em, 13 illustrations published in one issue. Here’s one of them. the bulk of them accompanied Valentines that readers sent in for their loved ones. I’ll post some more next week. I also had […]
American Affairs Desk: A New Comic Strip By Mark Kaufman
I’m just about to head out for a long awaited, long deserved, long weekend. I just got some amazing news that I wanted to throw out into the ether. I have been churning out a ton of editorial illustrations, comics, and random nonsense for The Stranger for years now, and I have just been given […]
AIGA Seattle Membership Party
Please join us at Town Hall on February 1 for our 21st annual membership party to celebrate how far we’ve come and where we’re going! Register here. More than just a party, this is a golden opportunity to reunite with your very cleverest colleagues, and hear Bill Grant, president of AIGA national board, comment on […]
Stupid Fresh
By Mark KaufmanHere’s a new item I cranked out. What does it all mean? I don’t rightly know.
Think Global. Draw Local.
By Mark KaufmanI get to do a lot of illustration that accompanies news stories on national and global issues. So I get to draw George Bush and Dick Cheney, comment on issues of the day like Iraq, the economy and so on. But I also get to comment on local issues and characters. Here’s an […]
Totally Useless Calendar
By Mark KaufmanWell January is almost over and I forgot to mention this. Here is a detail from a totally, purposely useless calendar that we designed for our clients, friends and family. Why send a seemingly useless calendar? Because it’s the thought that counts. A new year brings endless possibilities and a sincere wish for […]
I heart the internets and I heart these guys
I was in Florence last year and I remembered the name of an artist I had seen. No it wasn’t Botticelli or Brunelleschi or Giotto. It was Mateo Rivano, whose work I saw on display in a store window. So yesterday I looked him up and found his myspace page. The reason why I love […]
Art Buchwald 1925-2007
By Mark KaufmanHumorist Art Buchwald passed away today at the age of 81. The Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and satirist wasn’t exactly my cup of tea, but I first became aware of him as a television personality in the mid to late 1960’s. He was certainly funny to a kid in New Jersey with a […]