Browsing: Illustration

A version of this essay appeared in The New York Times Book Review. A cloud is a spell against indifference, an emblem of the water cycle that makes this planet a living world capable of trees and tenderness, a great cosmic gasp at the improbability that such a world exists, that across the cold expanse of spacetime strewn with billions upon billions of other star systems, there is nothing like it as far as we yet know. Clouds are almost as old as this world, born when primordial volcanos first exhaled the chemistry of the molten planet into the sky,… read article

An illustrated trip from smallest to biggest.

As an illustrator, I often struggle to decide how far I should push the boundaries of creativity. I’ve noticed that there is a fine line between art that is accessible to my peers and art that is accessible to everyone. And I don’t always know where to draw that line. In a Nautilus post, Jim […]

A naughty illustrated tale of mad mid-century matinees.

A diet your grandmother would approve, why boredom isn’t edible, and what peas have to do with time travel.<

An irreverent, artful antidote to GPS appification, or what the NYC subway has to do with tsunamis.

Lessons on love from two illustrated birds, or why we never really grow up.

Safe-cracking the quantum physics way, or what the Challenger disaster has to do with bongo drums.

Illustrated insights on love, hate, identity, God, capitalism, and the rest of life by way of Herman Melville and found paper.

New Yorker cartoonist Kate Beaton’s hilarious six-panel vignettes about famous literary and historical figures and events.