Critter Comforts

Here are some critters from my sketch book. I was in the mood to doodle dragons.

Annual Co-op meeting

There can't be no discussion about the fuel surcharge!









You probably can't tell, but there are a lot of orthodox Jews in my neighborhood. I tried to be orthodox but I couldn't give up pork fried rice or McRibb Sandwiches.

Sketchbook

This girl was sketching on the subway, in the exact same kinda sketchbook I use to sketch people on the subway. So, I sketched her.


This Mack Daddy just strolled up to a lady in Bryant park, sat next to and started talking to her. She was nice enough to him, but she had a fiance and after a few minutes excused herself to go and catch a train.


Random Subway sketches:

Spring Break 2009

Like all party animals, we went to Florida for Spring Break. Enclosed are sketches done at some of the wilder places we went.



IKEA





Pembroke Gardens




Bonefish Grill




Pita Hut




Festival "Flea Market"


More sketches from Spring Break here:

Consurance

The Leper Con

I was drinking green beer with my friends at a bar.
A wee man appeared with no nose and strange scars.

"I'll wager ye oversized gents never seen
a tiny man what can turn hisself green!"

Drunkenly accepting that wager we coughed up some dough.
Then the little imp turned himself green don't you know?

He grabbed our money, waved goodbye and moved toward the door.
That waving hand popped off his wrist and fell to the floor!
"I reckon I won't do that trick anymore."

She or He?

We're having a baby! My wife is about 15 weeks knocked up which means we're one month from being able to know what sex he is. I'm thrilled to be having a kid. No matter what he turns out to be, boy or girl or boy. Lauren doesn't want to know but I think we should find out. I love suspense in a novel or a movie or presidential election but not in this case. I want to find out so we can choose his name, decorate his room and start buying tonka trucks.
Lauren just suggested that until we know what we're having we combine She, He & It so people can ask her how the little Shit is doing.

on top of the world

Is she floating? Flying? Astral projecting? I dunno.

LINKS!

Well it only took two months but here are the links. Something about it being linked to my website makes it impossible to put the links where they should go, so I'll post them periodicly, once a month if I start blogging regularly.

Cheese "House of 12" Hasselberger

Kevin Colden

Jason Polan

Taco Bell Drawing Club

Mike Lynch

Micheal Maslin

Mr.Snowman

Freelance Bob Eckstein

Felipe "Feggo" Galindo

Martha Gradisher

Jenny "Devil Doll" Gonzalez

Sid Harris

Kate Allen

Randy Jones

Liz "Electrofork" Daggar

Nicole "Click" Fournier

Thomas "Bus Boy" Haddad

Francis "Lots'o'stories' Hogan

Tom "True Fiction" Motley

Classy Dan Widensky

They're ready to believe you:

Wendy Newman's Person Centered Branding


Mitch Newman The Relationship Coach

The Funny Times

Kate "Bling Bling" Stillings

Asaf "8 Track" Shakham

Frank "Man of the people" Reynoso

Steve "Karma Bum" Price

Cary "The Hat" is coming soon

Musikoff makes comics

Musikoff rocks out


Allicette "Le Arteest" Torres

Links and Dragons

I've promised a few folks I would add links to them from my blog. I haven't done that yet. I did make a pretty picture with dragonesque critters.




I'll get to work on the links now.

Half Demon Dolls vs. Devil Doll?

Holy crap. I haven't posted in 4 months. But enough about me. Have you ever been to a concert and walked out thinking, "They should have paid me to have to sit through that."
Today, I got paid to sit through that. And it was fun. I was caricaturizing the patrons at Hard Rock Cafe for a TeenVogue event. I didn't know there'd be a battle of the bands, but battle three bands did. And the winner...



Half Demon Doll, presented with a record contract by Little Steven. Not too shabby. Now, the big question is, do these 4 teeny bopper girls from Minnesota know their bands name is similar to Jenny "Devil Doll" Gonzalez ?

NYC Sorcery

Since we've been back in NYC I've noticed a lot of odd things going on. I like it.

Squaricatures

Here are two caricatures I did while working in Union Sq. Park last week

Sunday in The Park w/ Evan

Here's a pic of Evan taken by Elgin
The Subway Surfer taken while we did some caricatures in the park.



Check out the professional drawing posture.

Stout

Some sketches from our most recent visit to
Stout a big, dark, crowded, noisy bar in midtown NYC.

HTLM

I sent out my monthly newsletter this afternoon. Because I'm not too good with the htlm I sent the letter out with a paypal button to order my NEW BOOK, "Don't Brag About Your Nuts" and the button doesn't work! For anyone who wishes to purchase the book click on this picture


to get to the paypal button that DOES work. Or, simply find me at
MoCCA on June 7th & 8th. I'll have the book there.

So after Aki Sushi Lauren, Peter and I went over to
Gotham Hall where style meets sophistication, to attend a UF fundraiser and awards dinner. I met with many fine, upstanding University Alumni. These folks take their school spirit very seriously. Go Gators!

Aki Sushi

Lauren, Peter (Goldberg) and I got to the big UF alumni event a little early last week, so we stopped into Aki Sushi for a pre-game beer. It was 5pm so the place wasn't hopping yet. Not much going on at all in fact, though we did see them serve a pretty unusual appetizer.

Lauren & Peter were talking about sales and Lauren explained what
Spiff is. I worked four years for a firm that specialized in sales incentives and had never heard the term Spiff!

Profiles In Storage

Last Sunday we went to our storage unit in Brooklyn to visit all of our stuff. While Lauren and I suffer exile in NJ, we have most of our things in Brooklyn. We just acquired some more stuff from Lauren's parents and went to add that to what's already there - books, furnishings, kitch & kitchen items all stacked and boxed and waiting to be set free. Frankly I'm a little worried about our possessions. It's been five months plus two or three more before we move back to the city. Not exactly "hard time" but prison changes things. Our chairs and sofas will be just a little harder. Our books and clothes a bit rougher around the edges. We heard rumors that half of our fine bone china has fallen in with Aryan skin heads and the other half with the Triads. This info came from a set of measuring cups. Despite being built for precision they do tend to exaggerate.

Haiku Corner

Way, way back, in the days when "Old School" was just "School" I was fiction editor of the Prattler, Pratt Institutes school newspaper. I had a segment called Haiku corner. Each issue I'd sort through hundreds of haikus that were submitted - all of them from the same two guys who'd get stoned and write poetry - and pick the best. Because most of the haikus I recieved started with the line, "Man, I am soooooo high!" I would occasionally write my own haikus to spice things up a bit. That's actually a good tip for all you aspiring writers and poets out there. If you want to be published, it's good to be the editor. That's how I got this little gem in the paper:

All the ladies love
Ernie the dolphin because
he doesn't wear pants

Now that I'm oh so much older, my material is more mature. I wrote this haiku this morning:

Now with all this hair
in my nose I wonder why
my nose still gets cold