Occupy Wall Street the playing cards

I was lucky to be invited by Marc Scheff to contribute to his project 52 Shades of Greed,a deck of 52 playing cards illustrating the ins' and outs' of of the financial crisis. My illustrations are of Stan O'Neal, the former CEO of Merrill Lynch; and of the controversial financial tool, credit default swaps.

Here is the official press release by Marc:

52 Shades of Greed is not your average deck of cards. It’s way hotter than that.

Brought to you by a team of professional illustrators and the Alt
Banking group at Occupy Wall Street, 52 Shades of Greed is a deck of
playing cards bearing illustrations of the people and financial
institutions whose lust for money took the rest of us for a steamy car
ride toward economic collapse. Ever seen Dick Fuld or the infamous
Kathryn Wylde at work? These cards hold nothing back, depicting even
those awkward financial instruments you can’t believe anyone invented.
Ever heard of a Collateralized Debt Obligation? Well...if you've never
ended up on the side of town where these are bought and sold, this
deck will provide a picture. An actual picture, drawn by a pro.

Everyone will be talking about the 52 Shades of Greed because we all
wanna know who screwed us and how they did it. And we want pictures.
The cards will direct the curious to a website to get the dirty
details on each Shade of Greed.

We believe that educating people is the first step towards turning
that steamy car ride around. We need to know what's going on before we
can stop it.

The money we raise will pay for the production of the cards, including
a stipend for each artist. Our plan is to print 1000 decks and
distribute them at S17, the anniversary of the September 17th Day of
Action. Everyone fueling the project with at least a $25 contribution
will get a deck. We would like to raise enough to enable us to stage
events related to art and financial education.

52ShadesOfGreed.com
#52shadesofgreed

Foreign Policy Magazine

Here is a new piece I did for the new issue of Foreign Policy Magazine with art director Dennis Brack.

The story is about the people of Afghanistan, after suffering through decades of invasions and revolution and general war, being left in a state of post traumatic stress disorder. 

Thank you Dennis for inviting me to work on this with you.

Op-Ed

This is one of the coolest Op-Ed's I've gotten to do because the art director and I were given the whole page to work with. This is basically a collaboration between art director Matt Dorfman and myself. The article is on the Free Syrian Army. You can check out a larger version Here

McSweeny's 41

These will be featured in Mcsweeny's 41  alongside the short fiction The Wolf and the Wild by Jess Walter,  Robot Sex by Ryan Boudinot, and River Camp by Thomas McGuane.  Each image constitutes three full pages, so one full spread of the first two-thirds, and the last third as a full page in the following spread. I'm always thrilled to have work in McSweeny's, so it was an honor to have these three images in the new issue! The issue is out now.

Larger version of these here: 1 2 3

Signs of the Apocalypse

This is my contribution to the Signs of the Apocalypse show at My Plastic Heart gallery, New York. The show is curated by Lou Pimentel. It opens friday august 3rd.

One Hundred Dollar Bill show

This is my contribution to the One Hundred Dollar Bill show

at the Littlefield Gallery in Brooklyn. The show is curated by Sergio Barrale and Andew Smenos.

It was written up at the Huffington Post too!

The piece was inspired by the film They Live.

3x3's Nuts and Bolts 2012

I had the pleasure this year of being asked to return to the 3x3 Nuts and Bolts conference and talk about marketing illustration online. Just as last year it was a great group of artists with a lot of great questions. Thank you Charles Hively and Sara Munt of 3x3 Magazine for putting on the event!