I strongly encourage you to get a copy of Hurricane Story, the beautiful cloth-bound art book by New Orleans-based photographer Jennifer Shaw. Just out this month from Broken Levee Books (an imprint of Chin Music Press), the slim 7" x 7" volume boasts an eloquent foreword by my old buddy/collaborator Rob Walker.

Here's the book jacket description, ( Read more... )

I'm back home from Lyon and still processing the incredibly, energizing experience of Les Subsistances' "Points de vue, Nouvelles du monde" festival. Today I'm posting the photo comic which served as the introduction to each of my nightly performances. I produced the photocomic in the two days (June 21 -June 22) leading up to the festival. It's a ( Read more... )

Today is the final day of Les Subsistances' "Points de vue, Nouvelles du monde" festival. It's been a thrilling - and exhausting - journey. I've really enjoyed mixing with the rest of the participants: Congolese dancer Faustin Linyekula, French experimental theatre company Hauts & Court, Italian theatre troupe Compagny Motus, American radio ( Read more... )

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What would you say if I told you that you had the chance to see original artwork by the likes of Peter Arno, Robert Crumb, Jack Kirby, Moebius, Art Spiegelman, Chris Ware, Lauren Weinstein, Gahan Wilson, and Basil Wolverton - all in one place, at one time? And what if I mentioned that the same show featured artwork by Alex Ross, Alison Bechdel, Ben ( Read more... )

Next Tuesday, March 9, I will be appearing at the Philadelphia First Person Arts' event, Warning: Graphic Content.

This year's One Book, One Philadelphia program is centered around Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, and W:GC features artists Daniel Heyman, Jamar Nicholas, and yours truly presenting our work, followed by a screening of the Persepolis ( Read more... )

My mother, Martha Rosler, was invited by L.A.'s MAK Center to create a billboard as part of their "How Many Billboards" project. My mom suggested that we do a collaboration, and our billboard is up! It's on Sunset Blvd, just west of Cahuenga, on the north side of the street, facing east. Here's a shot. I'm off to L.A. tomorrow (weather willing) to ( Read more... )

I love that Rob Walker. Not only is he the brilliant author of the New York Times Magazine's "Consumed" column and the former "Moneybox" columnist for Slate. Not only did he write the critically acclaimed Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are (Random House, 2008). Not only did he pen the wonderful collection of essays ( Read more... )

One of my weekly rituals is my Tuesday night basketball game in Manhattan. I live in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, so to get to the game in the Lower East Side, I switch at Atlantic Avenue to either the B or the Q. The B takes me to Grand Street, where I walk to the game; or the Q takes me to Canal, where I switch to the M to Essex. But that's ( Read more... )

While at my opening the other day, cartoonist pal Joe Infurnari asked me about one image in particular, a panel from A.D. chapter 13, where the character Denise and her family witness the death of Miss Williams, a fellow refugee at the New Orleans convention center.

Joe said the image strongly reminded him of a painting by the Italian Baroque ( Read more... )