State Race

This image ran yesterday in The New York Times for an article about competition between the states being good for the economy. Utah, with a very low corporate tax, is leading the pack.

Animal Trucks

Budgeting Advice

The Wall Street Journal

Conan O'Brien iotacons in Fortune Magazine

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Hi everybody. I have a little side project of very low-res portraits called iotacons. This week, some Conan O'Brien iotacons I did are in Fortune Magazine! Above is the penultimate layout for the print version, and there is also an iPad version that had one of those poses at the top of each page of the article, and a clickable dancing Conan movie on the last page! Here is the movie.

Please check out more iotacons and the iPad layout on my iotacon blog! So long!

Spring Training Map for the New York Times

Hi everybody. I just did these two maps for The New York Times Sports  Section all about where MLB Spring Training happens. Click on the image if you'd like to see it bigger. So long!

Visit my iotacons Blog!

Hey people. Please visit my iotacons blog. You can find it here:

http://iotacons.blogspot.com/

Thanks.

Guillotine

Hey people. Here's an image I just did for the Wall Street Journal about the stress surrounding the possibility of being fired. So long!

You're right, everybody! It WAS green!

Hey everybody! Thanks for the comments on the Star Wars stuff! I've made the alteration most of you requested: Luke's ROTJ lightsaber is now green. I've had so much fun doing these low-res images, I set up a blog just for them.

http://iotacons.blogspot.com/

Check it out! I'll change the lightsaber color on those ASAP. So long!

Ten Little Zombies: A Love Story: The Clock!

Hey everybody! It's that time again: Zombie Time!
Here's another Ten Little Zombies gift that goes great with a copy of Ten Little Zombies: A Love Story!

Click the Clock!

Ten Little Zombies: A Love Story: The Mug!

Hey everybody! With the new "Coffee Brings Me Back From the Dead" mug, you can revive yourself without radioactive waste or Voodoo! Just check out the great Ten Little Zombies gifts at CafePress!

1200% Star Wars

Click on the image to make stuff out.
Visit the iotacons blog!

http://iotacons.blogspot.com/

1200% Star Wars: A New Hope

Visit the iotacons blog!

http://iotacons.blogspot.com/

1200% Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Visit the iotacons blog!

http://iotacons.blogspot.com/

1200% Mystery Science Theater 3000

Visit the iotacons blog!

http://iotacons.blogspot.com/

1200% Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

1200% The Munsters

Visit the iotacons blog!

http://iotacons.blogspot.com/

1200% Star Trek

I ended up doing so many of these things, I had to come up with a name for them and dedicate a separate blog to them. They are called iotacons and here is the link to the new blog:

http://iotacons.blogspot.com/

1200% The Addams Family

I ended up doing so many of these things, I had to come up with a name for them and dedicate a separate blog to them. They are called iotacons and here is the link to the new blog:

http://iotacons.blogspot.com/

1200% Lost in Space

I ended up doing so many of these things, I had to come up with a name for them and dedicate a separate blog to them. They are called iotacons and here is the link to the new blog:

http://iotacons.blogspot.com/

Happy Labor Day Weekend!

Ten Little Zombies: A Love Story is here!

Ten Little Zombies: A Love Story from Chronicle Books is officially released! It may have been spotted here and there on bookstore shelves and internet booksellers a little early, but now is the official release! Have a look at a bookstore near you, or at one of your favorite online retailers! Here are a few links:
Indiebound
Amazon.com!
Chronicle Books!
Barnes & Noble!
Powell's Books!

Old Guy Choking a Piggy

Hey People. The Wall Street Journal called up and asked for an image of an old guy choking a piggy. So here it is. It ran yesterday. Originally, the coins weren't coming out of the slot. Bye!

Ten Little Zombies: A Love Story: The Movie

Hey Everybody! I have a new book just hitting the shelves and the amazon and things like that! It's called Ten Little Zombies: A Love Story from Chronicle Books! This trailer I made for it, dazzlingly beautiful as it is, involves no animation! I made it with cut paper and magnets. This is what I do with my spare time.

View, buy and review the book on Amazon at: Ten Little Zombies: A Love Story

Underground New York

Hi everybody. Today's New York Times has an Op-Art edufotainstration I did about archeology in New York City. It was art directed by Alicia Desantis, and I think she did an amazing job of laying out a great looking page with a whole lot of text and very little time to do it! She was a breeze to collaborate with, and I'm very happy with the results. To the left is what this thing looks like in the paper today.

I was really looking forward to posting this here, and sharing it with my friends on facebook, and I intended to do that with a link to the New York Times web site.

Continued below....

Underground New York: Part 2

Continued from above.


But this is what it looks like on the web!

It's fine, really. It's a good solution for maintaining legibility. The same info pops up when you click on the i boxes. But the illustration looks a bit unfinished without all that text. And Alicia and I worked really hard to make all that text work with the illustration! Oh well. Designing for print and designing for the web are just two different things. And they're going to get differenter and differenter. So long!

General Steinbrenner

Hey people. This portrait of Steinbrenner as Patton ran today in the New York Times Week in Review section. I guess Patton was a hero of Steinbrenner's.

Snail Parade

A Snail Parade has just begun!

Let's start the show with number one!

Crawling out of Grampa's shoe

is Snail Parade snail number two!

Snail Parade snail number three

Is cheered on by his family!

And that's the end! No wait, there's more!

Here comes a fourth snail: Number Four!

Injured, yes, but still alive

Is bird-attacked snail number five!

Pausing to enjoy a Twix

Is Snail Parade snail number six!

Passing snails eight through eleven

Speedy snail twelve, I mean seven!

Although we had an hour to wait,

At last here comes snail number eight!

Sliding down the slimy line

Is slimy snaily numby nine!

After that comes number ten!

And so the Snail Parade must end.

Cooler Head Prevailing

Hey everybody,
Here's a weird little illustration I did for the Wall Street Journal.

My Favorite Food

Monopoly Seating Chart

Hey everybody. Here is an illustration I did for today's New York Times. It's always interesting to see what changes a publication will request before running an illustration, especially one with writing on it like this one. I would have laid money that they would request that I change the "Spastic Sleeper" space for fear of receiving too many of what Dick Cavett referred to as "For You See" letters, as in "Dear Mr. Cavett, I object to your use last week of the phrase 'basket case.' For you see, I was born without arms or legs...." I guess spastic sleeping isn't quite the epidemic air travel leads me to believe. The Times did request a small change: originally, the space next to the lavatory was labeled "Lavatory Smell." No big deal, as far as I'm concerned! So long!