Summer Movies!

Here are the top movies of the summer (with their original casts!) From The Hollywood Reporter. How to Train Your Dragon II Young viking (Adam Silver) discovers it’s not so easy to train his dragon (Donald Sterling).   Maleficent Vindictive troll (The Sultan Of Brunei) is insulted by the local townspeople (Sherry Lansing, Steven Spielberg, … Read more

DeBlasio in Clover

For my first cover for the redesigned NY Observer, art director Lauren Draper asked for a portrait of the mayor of NY, Bill DeBlasio, feeling triumphant after his signature agenda item, pre-kindergarten for all NY children, passed the legislature. Thanks to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is running THIS year (and maybe again next) this will … Read more

The Click-Through

Here’s a tribute to the use of illustration as infographic; communicating information about an issue or a character directly and powerfully through drawings and paintings. In my recent travels I have been working at this in different ways. Here’s a nicely handled click-through by The Washington Post. See it HERE. On the first Debt Ceiling … Read more

Hey, it’s Oscar Time!

No, no don’t run away. I’m here to help. Our annual collision between large screen fantasy and small screen fiction is about to commence. And nobody can explain what it means. That might be because it is profoundly without meaning. With that in mind I offer my annual take on the future of Hollywood. This … Read more