Conversations on Zoom during Covid-19
Originally published in April 2020 in Blog, Cartoons, Comic, Illustration, Toronto Illustrators
Art Helps
Originally published in September 2019 in Blog, Cartoons, Comic, Illustration, Toronto Illustrators
Why I draw
Originally published in April 2018 in Blog, Cartoons, Doodling, Royal Art Lodge, Toronto Illustrators
Back in 2012, when I was leafing through the book, More Things Like This, an anthology about the intersection of art, writing and humour, I didn’t expect to find a painting of me scattered amongst the works of Art Spiegelman, Andy Warhol, Shel Silverstein, Kurt Vonnegut, and Leanne Shapton. I later found out my likeness […]
Gender equality …
Originally published in March 2018 in Blog, Cartoons, Doodling, Graphic Recording, Illustration
Homemade brush holder
Originally published in February 2018 in Blog, Cartoons, Illustration
My brushes kept rolling off my desk. Then I remembered that old salt dough recipe from First Grade, and I baked a brush holder! In this sketch, it’s Joe Shuster, co-creator of #Superman. Most Americans don’t realize Superman sprung from a Canadian brain. But it makes sense to us. We’re quiet, we’re strong, and we […]
James Baldwin
Originally published in January 2018 in Blog, Cartoons, Racism, Toronto Illustrators, Visual Storytelling
When the going gets tough, the weak blame. It appears to be a human default setting. I often dream of good deeds, And individually extracting myself from the white man’s shitty record on race. “But you can’t,” Ta-Nehisi Coates told a podscast audience I was part of … “Any more than I can get out […]