TOM - Didn't get a chance to post this last week, here is an illustration for last week's issue of New York Press. Check out the article here. Also......
I totally feel like Mike Giant right now!
TOM - Last Friday I got a call from Brian Rea of the New York Times to do do a small illustration for the letter page of the OP ED section. The story was about gas prices getting too high and people resorting to taking mass transit. To be honest, the article could have been about anything, I was just happy to do an illustration for the Times! I only had a few hours to come up with an idea and execute it, but I threw on some Hot Snakes albums and pumped it out (pardon the pun)
TOM - These are three illustrations I did for this weeks issue of Time Out New York. The article was made up of stories about people's extreme adventures in NYC such as jumping rooftops, semi pro wrestling, and discovering old hidden dwellings. I got the call to do these last Monday afternoon, and they needed to be handed in by that Wednesday, so it was a bit of an "extreme adventure" for me as well, but I feel I do some of my most fulfilling work when I'm under a tight time constraint. These were done in my usual #2 brush, ink, and photoshoped color. Check out this issue of Time Out New York on stands now.
TOM - No, it's not my Mothers Day card for Sunday, it's my latest New York Press illustration. The story is a sons letter to his mother confessing that the "photographer" he told her he was dating was really a Dominatrix. They wanted to steer clear of drawing the actual Dominatrix and instead use it as the theme while focusing more on the Mother/Son relationship. I used Archie Comics as an inspiration stylistically. Read it here.
Here was last weeks NY Press illo. Two girls find out that looking for a roommate can also be a good way to meet guys. Some call it dating, I call it shitting where you eat.
TOM - I recently saw a fantastic movie called Mystery Train by Jim Jarmusch. The movie is made up of three separate stories that overlap at this one cheap hotel in Memphis Tennessee. All of the stories somehow revolve and connect around Elvis, Graceland, and a mysterious gun shot. I did this illustration based on a scene in the movie in which two Japanese tourist on a quest to Graceland are sitting in a park at night staring at a big statue of Elvis. The girl is completely mesmerized, while the guy who is a huge Carl Perkins fan could care less about Elvis. I'm not really good at describing plots all that well, so I recommend netflixing it. It stars Joe Strummer, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, and Steve Buscemi just to name a few.
