Our Democracy is Holding Strong: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/07/us/electoral-vote#lawmakers-effectively-end-republicans-effort-to-subvert-the-election-in-early-morning-vote
View post →
Had a really nice time this July 4th, watching the Macy’s fireworks over the East River with Neil, Margaret and Julia. A picnic on the East River with friends is always a great way to spend the unofficial first day of summer – fireworks in the evening is a plus.
View post →
All across the United States today, students walked out of their classes from 10:00 to 10:17 am, to remember the 17 people who were killed at the Parkland shooting, and to protest gun violence in our country. These kids walked out of their school in my neighborhood of Jackson Heights. #endgunviolence #walkout #gunreformnow
View post →
My reportage illustrations of the NYC rally against the immigrant ban have been published in the May/June issue of Spirituality & Health. The drawings are illustrating an article titled Being Honorable by Brady Kiesling, who writes about his decision to leave the state department after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and his thoughts on the first attempted Executive Order […]
View post →
When I was doing the research for my picture book, I Was Dreaming to Come to America, I had the privilege to be present at a few interviews with people who had entered the US through Ellis Island. This is Jacob Levine, a Russian Jewish man who “stole the border” and emigrated from Russia in […]
View post →
This reportage illustration is from a rally in front of the Stonewall Inn in New York’s Greenwich Village recently. The community came out in support of the trans-gender kids that will be affected by the new administration’s position rescinding protections that had allowed transgender students to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity. […]
View post →
As today is the day after Mardi Gras, I thought it was an appropriate time to post these drawings made at the New Orleans Jazz Funeral for the Presidency. The event, put together by the group Rise & Resist in Greenwich Village, NY and other critics of the current administration, was a mock funeral for the […]
View post →
Last Sunday, organizers put together a rally in New York’s Times Square, titled: “Today, I am a Muslim Too.” The rally was set up as an a-political event in support of the large Muslim population of NYC. As an entry for so many immigrants for so many years (See: Ellis Island post here) this city is […]
View post →
“LOVE IS STRONGER THAN HATE!” In early February there was a rally in front of the Stonewall Inn in downtown NYC, the LGBT Solidarity Rally. Scheduled originally to protest intended anti-LGBTQ action that the new administration was considering, the rally went on despite the action’s rejection by the president. Instead of a protest, it became more of […]
View post →
These have been busy times for reportage illustrators, as it seems like every day since the inauguration is a new change of policy and a new protest in response. Here in NYC, there have been many protests in response to the 90 day travel ban on 7 Muslim majority countries, along with a lot of hopes and […]
View post →