More classic and controversial covers from illustrator Barry Blitt and some thoughts on the upside down world of newspaper culture critics
Woody
I've been in the business for 25 years, and I think I have a pretty good memory, but I have no recollection whatsoever who commissioned this illustration of Woody Allen, or whether it ran or not, or even if I've ever been paid for it (but I wish I'd done a better job drawing the woman he's grabbing – her pose is rather lifeless).
Thumbs Up
One of my favorite gigs right now is illustrating the weekly opinion column of the great Frank Rich, in the Sunday New York Times. This one was about the lengths some partisans will go to justify their own position. It's a nice change to work in black and white.
Mike Mills on the Humans Manifesto
Mike Mills talks about depression, art and creativity in our feature article Woof. Here's his Humans Manifesto.
Mills: The first one I wrote was so embarrassing, pretentious, bombastic, and liberating, to do something that you don’t normally do.
Varoom: Like playing God in a way?
Mills: Yes, hopefully a ridiculous nerd-God.
