4 for the Times
As I mentioned in my Ode, I love working for the Book Review. This assignment though was particularly good – an essay about bad parents (think Coraline) replacing the classic absent or dead parent (think Cinderella) in kids’ books and young adult lit. Most of my sketches were satires of children’s literary images, but since the article also covered young adult books, I included sketches like the DWI minivan colliding with the book:
The art director and editors unanimously came back with this decision:
My first ongoing assignment for the Times came from Paul Jean when he was the AD at Circuits. He has since landed at Arts & Leisure and called me to do a piece on downloading classical music. Here are the sketches:
I had sketches due that week for 5 assignments and all of them went for the one I wanted most to finish, including Paul:
So that was Sunday’s Times, and here are the two regulars from Tuesday – the Road column was about jetlag:
And the Science story was about how copper can repair its molecular structure after prolonged exposure to radiation:
Genius. I was definitely going to choose the bust listening to an iPod even before I saw that it was the one you went with.