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. What a fun thing to try to draw.

I’m a professional cartoonist with a background in anthropology and sketch comedy. I draw cartoons for the New Yorker and many other magazines and I teach drawing and a variety of skills around making your creativity a bigger part of your life. I draw cartoons and create art for the Red Cross Climate Center and other organizations to make hard topics approachable.

Cool, But what do you do all day?

• Draw Cartoons and other pieces 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

• Take lots of walks

• 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