GPS and the Brain

I had a pretty substantial illustration in the Sunday Review section of the Times yesterday, dealing with a fascinating little piece on GPS and the brain, which is definitely worth a read. Really nice to have this particular strain of my work showcased this way. Many thanks to Alexandra Zsigmond.

The piece went through a bunch of profound transformations before getting to the above at the last minute. Here was one sketch I liked. Too on-the-nose, certainly, but I've been playing with markers lately and had fun with this.

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Gainful Employment

I'm going to be volunteering at Magers and Quinn in Minneapolis on Saturday from 2-5. They're inviting some local authors to hang out in the store and talk books with holiday shoppers for Indies First and Small Business Saturday. So come say hello and support a great independent book seller. We can talk about comics or typography or design books, or histories of religion, or good books on atheism or human nature, or pretty much anything by Steven Pinker... or whatever. I'll even try and say something intelligent about novels, if the subject comes up. And in case you missed it, here's my little cartoon manifesto on why you should buy books in a store.

(Also speaking of buying stuff, it was just brought to my attention that the Me and the Universe print [a strip I did for the New York Times this Fall] was erroneously listed as sold out at my store site. In fact there are still a few copies there in case anyone's interested)

This ran in the Times yesterday...

in the letters section accompanying a couple pieces about the Spanish abdication.