First, tips for golfing in the windy and rainy Spring:

Here are a few of the rejected sketches:

This one was for a story about golfers and lower back pain:

This was a little spot for a sidebar about very difficult bunkers:

Here were some of the leftovers for this one:

How your club shapes your swing:

This was another small sidebar spot about how pros almost never miss when they are putting within 5 feet of the hole:

How young is too young to get your kids interested in golf:

Thanks to Doug and the gang at Golf Digest for all the great assignments!

Here is one of the runners-up that I also liked and wanted to share:

Thanks to Jef and Jennifer!

These go way back, some before color on the page – passing the torch at the TSA, airline site designed for women, runway delays, and marketers target jet-lagged travelers:

I have ripped off airplane safety diagrams countless times as you can see here – the difficulty of upgrading your seat, in-flight live entertainment, banning personal items in seat-back pockets, more guns showing up at airports, passengers boarding with giant carry-ons to avoid bag check fees, and passengers need to know emergency protocols if they sit by the door:

Over the decade plus, I changed up the look of the column many times to keep it fun, including using photos – business travelers keeping receipts, airline fees, and airport fees:

Here were two spots of many about weather – the first in the lead up to Sandy, which none of us expected to be more than an inconvenience, hence the lighthearted tone. The other for that winter a few years ago where the constant snow had planes stranded in Newark and JFK:

Two of several columns about the rebounding hotel industry:

The race for wifi on every plane; the writer jumps ship from the Queen Mary to find a wifi connection:

Here are just a few of the many TSA stories we did – freeze drills at checkpoints, body-imaging first comes to airports, more recently the battle rages on against body-imaging, and the backlash against lifting the ban on pocket knives (even though you could already bring knitting needles, scissors and hockey sticks on board):

Two consecutive weeks about yellow light traffic cameras:

We also did a lot about the general difficulty of flying, just getting from A to B:

And fees – the randomness of add-on fees, the most expensive cities for travel taxes, the corporate spending bonanza at the Superbowl, and traveling on a tight budget:

Every summer Joe would write about the peak season and all the crowding on planes, here are a few of those:

And finally a few random ones that I liked – in-flight movies, who invented wheeled luggage, travel stories, shrinking international service, the state of affairs for flight attendants, and disgruntled flight attendants:

Thanks to Joe Sharkey for all the great columns, to Phyllis, Minh, Zvi and James for always working with me on scheduling holiday delivery, to Brent, our original editor, and to Steve Heller, who originally dropped my name to Brent when the Times was first looking for an illustrator for this. Thank you, thank you, thank you! And, like I always said I would, following my resignation I finally told Joe that I am deathly afraid of flying and have never set foot on a plane in my life.

I almost never do cartoon line drawings anymore but it seemed like the right feel for this one. And even though I still can’t believe they picked this, here is the cover that ran:

About two years ago The Wall Street Journal asked me to do a Lichtenstein-style treatment for a spot which lead to this cover last weekend:

Thanks to Ed, Lauren and Mark for both assignments!

And here is the animated version that ran online:

They’ve been a part of our dinner routines since they day we bought them. Sooo, it was one of the most exciting calls of my career to get hired out of the blue by Fred himself to illustrate a new set of plates called Dinner Dos. This time they wanted the dishes to have different hairdos so kids could use their food to make the faces, a set of three boys and three girls. They gave me a lot of freedom to just run with it and I had such a fun time working on these. Here are the initial sketches I sent for the boys:

And for the girls:

Once they picked we went to finals with very few changes. Here are the drawings that went in for the plates:

And here are the packages and the plates!

This was definitely a career highlight to be asked to work on this, and Fred and Jason the designer could not have been cooler people to work with, so big thanks to them both! And if you’re interested, here is a link to buy the sets from Perpetual Kid.

Here is a little detail:

Thanks to Meaghan!

This spot for Worth was for a column about concerns that Obamacare will cause even more general practitioners to disappear:

Here is the current Family & Friends illustration for AARP The Magazine about a woman who is still afraid of vaccinations:

Here it is on the page:

And here is one of the leftovers that I really liked, too:

And here is the Science Times spot for this week about how Greek coffee may hold a secret to longevity:

Thanks to Pam, Joanna, and Peter!

Here is the interior spread:

Thanks to Nicole and Tiffany!

I had lots of roughs that played off the bat signal, but these two were my favorites – shining on a billboard and the old marketers’ bullhorn. The article mentioned an online scavenger hunt that revealed small trivia about the movie so I did a series of matroskas alternating between fans and characters (I really wanted to do that one!). We ended up going with one of the sketches that was more general and really just played off the elements of the headline – selling and movies. Here are a couple of the rejects:

And here is the final:

The AD was photographing marquee letters for the typography and early on we considered just using line drawings of guys putting them in place. It would have been too late after they were photographed and the layout was done but I did give them one little man at the end to use on the headline page:

Thanks to Nick for a fun assignment!