Wednesday’s sketchbook
Originally published in June 2015 in Blog
How to deal with mean girls
Originally published in November 2014 in Blog
I wasn’t a mean girl in school. That automatically made me a target. I didn’t solve this by auditioning to join the girls on their power trips. Rather, I tried to exist in the world despite them. My refuge was drawing. Trays of rainbow markers thrilled and distracted me most of the time. But sometimes the girls’ […]
Kidd Stuff
Originally published in November 2014 in Blog
The Wall
Originally published in May 2014 in Blog, Uncategorized
Talent crush
Originally published in March 2014 in Blog
Appearing on the same Contributors’ Page as Wendy MacNaughton feels like an arrival. Seriously. This clip is from a forthcoming issue of The Block, a cool new mag that focuses on the workspaces of Canada’s brainiest tech and design innovators. Details to follow next week. Do you guys know about MacNaughton? I’ve culled together some […]
Hot off the press
Originally published in August 2012 in Blog
The lines in this drawing are actually clumps of pulled wool caught in fishing line. Drawing stares Despite itself, the computer age has given rise to a more intense engagement with objects. Miles Davis on vinyl, homemade scrapbooks assembled with a medieval attention to detail, and libraries of real books stacked in such unexpected places as abandoned phone booths […]
Lest we forget …
Originally published in May 2012 in Blog
It’s been said that the French don’t have a sense of humour (at least, not one the rest of us can discern). Then there are the Republicans (the U.S kind). They’re easy to laugh at, but not with. Samantha Bee was right when she pointed out that most Canadians regard Fox News as “a colossal practical […]
Manhattan transfer
Originally published in July 2010 in Blog
NEW YORK, 100ºF —“Philip, do you think anyone would care if I left my hat and gloves in the hotel?” *I used the “Inkling” app to draw this. It creates Japanese brush painting strokes, but also mimics a butcher’s grease pencil and looks a lot like the magazine illustration techniques of the 1950s. I added […]
