Sketching After Midnight: John McCain X-Ray Sketch

By Mark Kaufman
New 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 do know the provenance of, it is a sketch I drew of John McCain while watching some late night newscast. I am not sure whether or not I dig his oversize black sunglasses. They come across as some sort of third rate supervillain in a 1960’s spy thriller. I realize they actually serve a purpose given his melanoma problems, and for blue-blocker type shades they are about as tough looking as you can get without seeming like grampa on the way to the early bird breakfast. Anyway, that’s what I think about after midnight.