Best Books of 2008

The Final Five
As I said, my computer is still down, so instead of scanning things in and making them pretty in Photoshop, I have to take photos and post them straight to goddamn Facebook.

Grace Paley's The Little Disturbances of Man

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Best Books of 2008

The First Five
As I said, my computer is still down, so instead of scanning things in and making them pretty in Photoshop, I have to take photos and post them straight to goddamn Facebook.

Anyway, this was a good year for books - for me at least. I read a lot of great stuff, and coming up with a top ten was hard to do.

Roberto ( Read more... )

Malcolm Gladwell on Genius
So I want to draw a quick comic every day - no thoughts about style or anything; just a daily one page comic about whatever. Anyway, I also don't want to check facts on the internet, so I end up with what I have below, which says I was reading "Malcolm McDowell," who is an actor who was in A Clockwork Orange, If..., and a ( Read more... )

Debate Drawings
I've watched all of the debates at my place, always with a group of friends.

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Work Drawings

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A Work Drawing:
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Random Comicsby Troy Swain


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Random Comicsby Troy Swain

I still have a lot of comics to finish: the book reviews for Blink and A Pickpocket's Tale; the rambling comic; the comic about the WWII Monte Cassino disaster; and Abrams' Story/Cafe Limbo. I need to take one at a time and finish them all. And I still have to write a review for The Plot Against America and Dave Hickey' ( Read more... )

A View Near My Workplace
I work in midtown, NYC. I work three days a week at an investment bank. It's the best schedule I've ever had - except my job is finally ending. They've told me that before. The bank has a strict "no consultants" policy - part timers are a liability because they almost always work insane hours and if they do, they are ( Read more... )

Blink:

The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell
I'm still working on A Pickpocket's Tale but wanted to draw something fast, so I'm going to alternate between these two reviews.

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