If you want to time travel back to your parents’ rec room and hang out with your 10-year-old self, play these YouTube compilations of old TV commercials as you go about your day. “Nobody can do it like McDonald’s can” “Coffee Mate tastes great (repeat) “Brush your breath, brush your breath, brush your breath with […]
Archetypes
Originally published in November 2022 in Blog
Lois played the zany-kooky card because that’s what women in showbiz (who looked like her) did in the early 1960s. Men called her a “character,” but never a “creature.” Only femme fatales were creatures. These were the two choices for women who put themselves out there. The lack of range felt inside both camps was […]
Her Last Photo
Originally published in September 2022 in Blog
Kay Thompson
Originally published in April 2022 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
new york, NEW YORK!
Originally published in December 2021 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
Who knew?
Originally published in November 2019 in Blog, Graphic Recorder, Graphic Visualizer, 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 […]
Telling time
Originally published in April 2018 in Blog, Doodling, Illustration, Toronto Illustrators
Bill Cunningham left us a memoir — oh joy!
Originally published in April 2018 in Blog, Illustration, Toronto Illustrators
Edie Sedgwick
Originally published in December 2017 in Blog
She came bursting out of the gate, with no limits and no inhibitions. Then the moment passed. She changed, we changed. She forced her exit in the most banal and predictable way. In 2018, she would have been an Instagram star, A sought-after brand influencer. But she would have burnt out faster on the […]
