This two page comic drawn for the 2002 charity anthology 9-11: Artists Respond tells the story of French daredevil Philippe Petit’s 1974 wire walk between the towers of the World Trade Center, which was also the subject of the recent award-winning documentary Man On Wire. I could classify this one as a comic for hire, but to me it doesn’t qualify because I wasn’t paid for it. The book was in aid of some worthy charity I can’t recall- possibly a fund for firemen’s wives whose husbands had left them for 9/11 widows- and all contributors waived their fees.
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Sports

Just because it’s Faye Penn’s birthday Saturday, here are three more illustrations from the New York Post’s Millennium Countdown column, which predicted life in the new century from the vantage point of 1999.
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Caricature from lnx.

Education

Straight out of 1999, here are more illustrations from the Millennium Countdown, a series of columns in the New York Post which imagined life after Y2K.
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One of the pages I inked at the 24 Hour Comic Day event at Backspace Cafe, from my forthcoming book Extreme Perspective! Curvilinear And Beyond.

This  year’s Portland event is at the Backspace, and as usual l will be there, though this year I’m somewhat wussing out- instead of drawing a 24 Hour Comic I’ll spend the time catching up on inking pages from my perspective book. It used to annoy me mightily when other artists would work on not-24 projects at 24 Hour Comic events at my house- it felt like they weren’t bringing their A game- but what goes around comes around.
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