I Like New Jersey Best
By Mark Kaufman This is why I love my home state of New Jersey. Corruption! Bribery! Extortion! Money Laundering! Bank Fraud! Rabbis! Kidneys! Gucci Handbags! Bags of money! Money in boxes of Apple Jacks!!! As the song says; I’ve been alot of places, seen pictures of the rest but of all the places I can […]
By The Moons of Cronkite
Walter Cronkite. Over the Moon.By Mark Kaufman Happy/Sad Dept: RIP Walter Cronkite. Happy Anniversary Apollo 11. As a boy of 8 years old when Apollo 11 landed on the moon, I can’t begin to tell those who were not born yet how fucking exciting that was. As exciting as it was for an 8 year […]
Michael/Farrah Pinup
© Jay Bevenour By Mark Kaufman The awesome, mashup of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett is now available from the Philly based artist and cartoonist Jay Bevenour. Jay sez he has archival/matte prints of the MJ/Farrah painting. The image is 11″ x 14″ on 13″ x 19″ paper. I am not sure yet about cost […]
Drawmark Memory Hole: *
By Mark Kaufman Sometimes you just can’t remember what the context was for the creation of an illustration. This is a good example of it. The asterisk illustration was done several years ago, for a books section of a newspaper, I cannot remember which newspaper, nor can I remember what the story was about, or […]
Cartoonapalooza: Association of American Editorial Cartoonists
Mike Peters Rocking the Overhead Projector at 2009 CartoonapaloozaBy Mark Kaufman I attended Cartoonapalooza last night, a public forum presentation during the Association of Editorial Cartoonists annual convention which is taking place in Seattle this week. It was a fun presentation by some real heavyweights in the editorial cartooning arena, including some folks whose work […]
StumbleBum Fridays: Genre Magazine Completist
By Mark Kaufman I did not use StumbleUpon for this week’s entry, instead I found a most awesome site dedicated to magazines by chance. The Galactic Central site is a wonderful repository of magazine cover art and information on pulps, genre magazines, i.e. girlie, adventure, romance, western, sci-fi, crime, general interest titles, literary, and sports […]
Objectified. The Traveling Road Show.
By Mark Kaufman I saw Objectified last week, the new film from Helvetica director Gary Hustwit at the Cinerama Theatre in Seattle. The huge theatre was packed with graphic, industrial, information and product designers whose hearts did a collective flutter when design icons like Dieter Rams or Jonathan Ivie make their big screen appearances. The […]