The Idea Box Journal

Big thank you to the amazing teachers I’ve had over the years and to all of you doing your best in the classrooms today. Your work & your commitment to all of us is truly and deeply important. Thank you! #TeacherAppreciationDay

Recent interview I gave with Anna Durbanova at Impakter, a terrific international online magazine focused on social & human rights issues, sustainable development, and art.

Participating in the Women’s March on Saturday was a deeply inspiring experience. Discovering groups around the world had joined together in solidarity makes me more optimistic about the challenging years ahead.

Interview with the fine folks at Ladder & Key, in which I talk about breathing and the challenges of picking cat hair out of paintings.

This is What Evolution Looks Like

Sick and tired of mass shootings being a regular occurrence in the United States. I believe will will overturn the NRA’s stranglehold and become a safer country, but it cannot happen soon enough.

“Doing what is really your own, and then fulfilling the needs of the story—that particular story and the voice of that author and that world. And finding the place where those two meet. If you can do both at the same time, then that’s the successful piece.”

 
The fine folks at Ampersand Literary and I spoke over the phone recently about art, illustration, influences, and advice to the aspiring. Read the rest of my ramblings here.

Happy Native American Day!

Dakota Man, drawn at The American Museum of Natural History, New York City.

With appreciation for the country we live in, it is time we shifted our debt of gratitude from the man who began our migration here to the people whose home we invaded. The least we can do is offer them a day of respect.

Thanks for keeping the news honest and appropriately ridiculous. Well done sir. ‪#‎JonVoyage‬ ‪#‎DailyShow‬ ‪#‎JonStewart‬