My ideas start with the eyes…

Next, my fingers itch to draw the angle of the brows, the position of the neck. My shoulders get involved. I hunch, I stretch. I start getting lines down on the page.

It’s a wild thing, to be human. We are a bristling ball of contradictions wrapped in muscles and skin. I like to draw the moments when the contradictions break the surface. I like to draw the things that are hard to put into words. When I can draw a thing, I can understand it. And I can share that understanding with someone else.

I draw cartoons for the New Yorker and other magazines. I teach. I give talks. I draw cartoons for the Red Cross and other organizations to help them clarify and share their thoughts. I’m based in New York City but I go for long hikes and bike rides that sometimes last for months and I draw what I find there.  I use drawing to better understand being human. 

But what do you do all day?

• Draw Cartoons which I sell to the New Yorker, Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Alpinist, Barrons, Woman’s World and others.

• Think and Teach and Talk about drawing

• Draw for Organizations to help them think about and communicate their message

• Drink a lot of coffee

• Make a lot of to-do lists

• Scratch things off the to-do lists

• Crumple the to-do lists into little balls and throw them in the direction of the trash can