Prehistory Part 2

More sketchbook pages from about 1988-92 or so.

Prehistory part 1

A few months back D&Q asked me to send some high school drawings for a project they were working on. In the end none of it got used (maybe because I waited about a month before actually looking for stuff, and they had a tight turnaround), but once I got around to fishing out my old sketchbooks I had a lot of fun combing through them. I'll probably post more in the next few days, including some actual comics, and a few (of the hundreds and hundreds) skateboarding drawings.

Gateway Drug

A few weeks ago a friend in France sent me a screen shot of this exchange he had with an ebay seller. He'd just received a few hard to find issues of Big Questions from the guy, and had a question:

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drew this

for the NYT, the other day.

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Kim Winderman and David Uthus at Lula

Next Tuesday, 6-9 the Fall show opens at Lula Cafe. It features David Uthus and Kim Winderman. More about the show here. I'm really happy to have their work up. They're both singular photographers working, loosely speaking, with landscape photography in very different ways.
 

I came across Kim through the recommendation of Debbie Carlos, who we showed at Lula a year or so back. Based on the recommendation I assumed she was based in Chicago and promptly shot off an email. Turns out she's in L.A. and it took a little while to work out logistics. Her photos are quiet and dark. Intricate, moody abstraction found in natural forms.

I know David through skateboarding, mostly. He studied film and has done a lot of shooting for Pretty Skateboards in St Louis, as well as for the amazing Randy Ploesser. But he's got a fertile mind  and an eye for a certain variety of quiet moment and understated beauty and absurdity in the urban landscape. The shots in the show are all taken on his cellphone. Come by the opening and say hi.