The Crowdsourcing Trend Unfortunately Has Hit The New York Times

Ran across this blog entry today: 

From Tom Richmond's blog:

"Their proposal was to solicit submissions of completely finished cartoons with a weekly deadline of Fridays at 11 a.m.. The submissions would be reviewed by the editors, one chosen, and then that cartoon would run in the Sunday Review. The cartoonist who’s work was chosen would sign an agreement granting rights to the Times (not to be reprinted anywhere) and would be compensated $250. The ones not chosen would get nothing."


http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/2012/02/09/the-new-york-crimes/

Thoughts? In addition to outright disgust? This is an ugly, ugly trend...

Hairy Potter

Never thought I'd post this, but with Potter-mania in full swing, I just buckled.

This was created for the spring issue of California Magazine. They have a running feature called Twisted Titles where they invite readers to riff on a famous book. Then an illustrator gets to pile on the irreverence some more. I was offered the chance to illustrate Hairy Potter—Hippie Ceramicist, and couldn't resist dragging the movie Ghost into the mud.

Here is another concept with Lord Voldemort as a tiki mug.

(I could have lived with that one too.)

More sketches on the blog.

40 Years of Illustration: New York Times

Great little documentary on the history of illustration for the New York Times Op Ed page:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/09/25/opinion/opedat40-illustration.html?emc=eta1

The Philosophical Baby

In September, I created my first editorial illustration since the mid-eighties. The subject matter was irresistible: babies, science, humor.

Here are the two concepts I submitted:

There's a bit more info here.

Article About Jerry Dowling's Book: Drawing Pete

Check out the great article published Sunday in Dayton Daily News about regular illustrators' lunch attendee Jerry Dowling's amazing book Drawing Pete.


It is a must read!



The book is available from Edgecliff Press.

C.F. Payne's Time Cover

Fellow Cincinnati illustrator C.F. Payne did a portrait of Obama for the January 26th cover of Time Magazine.

Check it out!