Cue Card Ransom Scene, The King of Comedy, black and red marker on drawing paper, and reference still
I Have a Gun, (Cue Card Ransom Scene 2), The King of Comedy, black and red marker on drawing paper, and reference still
First attempt looks more like Sasha Baron Cohen than Robert DeNiro.
Gene Hackman Smoking, The Royal Tenenbaums, colored pencil on drawing paper
Bird Girls, Moonrise Kingdom, color ball point pens on newsprint
King of Clubs, opening of Fargo, black marker on drawing paper
Carriage Ride, Marie Antoinette, colored marker on salvaged art history book paper
Modeling for Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, colored marker on salvaged art history book paper
New Do, Marie Antoinette, colored marker
on salvaged art history book paper
Points of Return, a Fatal Attraction Comic, black pen on drawing paper, scanned and digitally colored:
I think about movies when I’m trying to fall asleep. Sometimes I go back in time, starting with the last possible second someone can not make that last bad decision that causes events to take off on their own steam, and through all the bad decisions that . . . [continued in panel 2]
Dan (Michael Douglas): I gotta go.
Alex (Glenn Close): OK, see ya. Thanks, man.
[continued from panel 1] . . . led to it, and how they could have gone another way, until I get to the fresh, blameless beginning. It’s very comforting.
Dan (Michael Douglas): I hate Madame Butterfly.
Alex (Glenn Close), to herself: He hasn’t even commented on my Vandercook.
Saving fictional people from embarrassing self ruin.
Dan (Michael Douglas): Blah blah blah
Alex (Glenn Close), to herself: Maybe I’ll pick up that new Stephen King on the way home.
There’s nothing left but people meeting and going their separate ways. Everyone’s fine. I’m asleep.
Dan (Michael Douglas): Oh good, this cab is stopping.
Alex (Glenn Close): You take it. I just remembered something I left upstairs.
Vogue Runway, black pen and gold marker in sketchbook
Runway, black pen on newspaper
Bethesda Fountain, Central Park, black pen on drawing paper, black and white and digitally colored.
Mom’s Photo Books (classmates from 1962, black pen and marker on drawing paper
Thank You, black pen on drawing paper
Out of the Tunnel—I-10 East, black pen and marker on drawing paper
Crowded Panda, black pen and colored markers on drawing paper
Aalborg, Denmark, August 1, 2022, black pen in sketchbook
Stuff I Stole, black pen on drawing paper, digitally colored
I dreamed a guy stole my purse for a conceptual-performance-installation-art-show thing. I was fine with it and waited patiently. Eventually, I asked him if I could get my keys and go home. He ignored me mortifiedly, whereupon I delivered the greatest dream speech in the HISTORY of SPEECHES or DREAMS. It counted as the performance bit and was instantly celebrated as a triumphant success. The world would eat this up and I would do it if I had the nerve and no conscience. But I did really like yelling at that guy.