Patrick Leger

Saul Steinberg was great at drawing horses

kinda funny that people did serifed graffiti in the old west, it's all most too on brand

The 80s Mad Max was dubbed for the US, but I think Mel Gibson did his own dubbing

The old Subway wallpaper was so great

The craziest statistic I've heard is that investment in AI this year is greater than all consumer spending.

Someone should make a Yakuza kind of game but it takes place in a perfectly recreated 1980s LES. Maybe you're a punk, maybe you're an aging jazz musician.

It would be interesting to hear from an AD what the difference in production time is today compared to earlier when less staff were working remotely. It seems much slower but idk.

6166 forms are such a joke.

-$85 application fee
-Takes over a month to get to you
-Can not be applied for/or paid for online
-Have to reapply every year

And what you get is a single piece of paper with 2 sentences on it saying you file taxes in the US.

Did they ever finish Bartkira, is it still happening

It’s pretty dense but he gets really creative with the idea of a reality where shintoism is basically science

Should be online somewhere, it’s one of his more famous series. Dark Horse published in the US in the early 90s. I was actually wondering if it was an influence for you.

Orion

The White Ribbon is very steal-able

Yeah I guess that’s all we’ve got. That and corn.

Are “Where’s Waldo” type illustrations 50% of jobs now?

I wish we had a cool, stereotypical export. Like... ball caps or something.

I never really think in terms of "what is the best [...]" but I can say Dark is the best tv show I've ever seen.

started watching Dark again for the 5th time

Get this game I did the character portraits for… for FREE!

I'm intrigued by all this autopen talk. It would be fun to have one at an event that could do a little drawing

Gonna propose a new illustration course where you just draw hands holding phones in interesting positions

Nightlife Fixture Kevin Carpet Does Not Get Off on Getting Stepped On Please: no stilettos.

I just read Kobo Abe's "The Box Man" and now I'm seeing this www.thecut.com/2022/10/part...

Punches hole in the wall

Scarlet Johansson nabs a pygmy raptor that looks like a feathery Pomeranian

The idea of making a more dangerous dinosaur for $$$ in the new Jurassic Park films is so weird. If dinosaurs actually existed, top scientists would be working tirelessly to make them smaller and cuter. Every sequel would be an intense jungle chase to get back a triceratops that looks like Moo Deng

Urth of the New Sun goes for about 5 pages before it intros a giant sassy female sailor

A giant, red, goat-headed demon sits on a stone throne in a subterranean chamber. "So, it is decided: on midsummer's eve, my words shall spew forth across the land like black fire!" "We prefer to call it 'publication day'" says his publicist. "..And we were hoping you might do some social media to to promote the book?" Things turmn dark, the demon's goat eyes glow "I cannot fathom the accursed opiate screens that so enthral your kind." "Yeah, some of our other authors feel that way, but that's why we have Toby: he's an absolute whiz!" she replies, introducing a small man. "I'll set you up on twitter and you'll be corrupting Souls in no time!" says Toby. A caption reads: "An hour later" The demon now has his head in his hands and moans: "I can endure this Foul parade of doltish barbarity No longer! Please deactivate My account, wizard Toby"

Since it's almost Midsummer...

“Even the endorsement of James Clyburn, a… *checks notes*… congressman from South Carolina failed to win over New Yorkers to vote for Cuomo.”

André-Édouard Marty

Every NYT Op-Ed: Mamdani’s unorthodox strategy of advocating for normal voters somehow pays off