TO SERVE MANKIND
“Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality…Where there is no property, or at least none that exceeds the value of two or three days labour, civil government is not so necessary.”… Continue reading
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Welcome…
… but be forewarned. You’ve stumbled onto my patch of cyber “real” estate. If odd drawings of semi-naked, not-so-polite people will offend you, limit your views to the “Published Work” pages. Don’t go to… Continue reading
FIRST MUSEUM, THEN YOU DON’T
A drawing that’s not about you know who. Yes, he’s still a problem—a big problem, THE big problem. The question remains: Will his presence and absence create a world war and the dystopia… Continue reading
PUPPETEER PUPPETED
Is you-know-who a more-myth-than-man shapeshifter, a privileged narcissistic actor playing many roles or a sad old man losing his mind day by day? Sometimes he seems—more by unintended consequences than proximate causes—a master… Continue reading
TAKING LIBERTIES
The painter here is a cursed yet comic caricature who hurries to finish his parody of Eugene Delacroix’s painting “Liberty Leading the People” before ICE breaks down his door. His substituting the conservatively… Continue reading
STRANGE BEAST
Movies and comic books about superheroes are not really about good vs evil with good triumphing albeit after much destruction and only temporarily. They are mere spectacles designed to keep you, the precariat,… Continue reading
LIONS, TYGERS AND BARE
“Macavity, Macavity,there’s no one like Macavity, There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity.” —T.S. Eliot. The most successful—but by no means best!—humans are thus cat-like, they all are observant and… Continue reading
A MUSE NOT AMUSED
Personifying inspiration, inventing a muse to guide your art making, is a harmless exercise in metaphor, but to declare a real person, from a friend to a passerby, such, especially without their knowledge… Continue reading
PLAIN GEOMETRY
Lines that meet will part. But if these lines have some width as well as length, they will feel parallel for a while, but eventually—alliterative metaphor alert!—the camaraderie of youth becomes the commerce… Continue reading
“Let them eat this”
This one, when the idea was only half an image, was more generic. The headless suit in the surrounded by moneybags in his limo was corporate capitalism semi-personified—corpulent and inhumane—and the people on… Continue reading
CHESTNUTS ROASTED
Wishing most of you happy holidays of your choosing. I prefer simply acknowledging the increasing daylight hours as a rare something getting better in these difficult times to the more monetized institutional celebrations.… Continue reading
REBEL WITHOUT CLAWS
Among the political caricatures (you know who, mostly) and socio-economic stereotypes (bourgie suit and siren, Metropolis-style proles) posted here is the “l’arteest.” He is of a sub-sub-species of hominin that, while not endangered,… Continue reading