BOSTON PHOENIX R.I.P.

I was sad to hear yesterday that the Boston Phoenix is closing its doors. I did a heap of illustrations for Boston's finest alt weekly over the last decade, many of which I count among my best. If any of the drawings I've posted below are worth a second look, that has just as much to do with the intelligence and vision of art director Kristen Goodfriend as it does with my ability to hold a pencil. 

My thanks and best wishes go out to Kristen and all the other folks at the Phoenix. May they all rise once more from the ashes with longer lunches and bigger paychecks!

"GOD IS PISSED"

Cover illo for Boston Phoenix

June 2010

art direction by Kristen Goodfriend

"GEORGE W. BUSH VS. MEDIA ZOMBIES”

Cover illo for Boston Phoenix

Art Direction by Kristen Goodfriend

October 2005

"ROMNEY UNZIPPED"

Cover illo for Boston Phoenix

February 2010

art direction by Kristen Goodfriend

“CHRISTMAS SCREAM”

Cover illo for Boston Phoenix

Art Direction by Kristen Goodfriend

December 2005

"MAD MEN" 

Holiday Guide cover illustration for BOSTON PHOENIX

Art Direction by Kristen Goodfriend

November 2009

"BUSH AS MARIE ANTOINETTE"

Cover illo for Boston Phoenix

October 2006

art direction by Kristen Goodfriend

“FIFTEEN FAMOUS DRUNKS”

Illustration for BOSTON PHOENIX

Art Direction by Kristen Goodfriend

March 2006

2012 Wrap-Up Pt. 3: SF BAY GUARDIAN, OC WEEKLY & WESTWORD

Four alt weekly covers from 2012.

"Offies 2012" cover illo for SF BAY GUARDIAN, Dec. 26, 2012,
art direction by Brooke Robertson

"Mall Monster" cover illo for SF BAY GUARDIAN, July 8, 2012, 
art direction by Brooke Robertson

"Aaron Kushner as the Pied Piper" cover illo for OC WEEKLY, Dec. 10, 2012, 
art direction by Laila Derakhshanian

"Reaper Votes," cover illo for WESTWORD, Oct 15, 2012,
art direction by Jay Vollmar

Seven assorted Presidential race illos

"ROMNEY UNZIPPED" 

Cover illustration for Boston Phoenix

February 2010, Art direction by Kristen Goodfriend

"WET PAINT OBAMA"

Illustration for C&E Politics

May 2008, Art direction by Jeff Brown

"SUPER OBAMA"

Cover illustration for Creative Loafing Tampa

July 2008, Art direction by Jason Hatcher

 "DESTROY ALL REPUBLICANS"

Illustration for Las Vegas Weekly

October 2011, Art direction by Ryan Olbrysh

 “DESKTOP ELECTION”

Illustration for PRSA TACTICS

January 2008, Art direction by John Elsasser

"PEPPER-SPRAY THE GOP"

Cover illustration for SF BAY GUARDIAN

January 2012, Art direction by Mirissa Neff

“CANDIDATES 2008”

Illustration for THE STRANGER

October 2007, Art direction by Aaron Huffman

Four Romneys

FOUR ROMNEYS: with Mitt Romney looking ever more like the Republican front runner, I thought I’d post a few of my Romney illos, (some very recent, some not-at-all recent).

First is a cover illo for Boston Phoenix in February 2010, art direction by Kristen Goodfriend. (while looking through my files, I came across another Romney-themed Boston Phoenix cover illo from 2007, but that one has a Romney likeness that’s so far from the mark, it’s making me cringe. Sorry, Kristen!).

The second one features Obama, Edwards, Giuliani, Hillary and Romney from the 2008 Presidential election. This was for The Stranger in September of 2007, art direction by Aaron Huffman.

Third up: a Toho Studios-themed illo showing the GOP’s 2012 Presidential candidates as giant radioactive beast trampling a landscape of foreclosed homes. This ran in an issue of Las Vegas Weekly, October 2011, art direction by Ryan Olbrysh

The last and most recent of the four illos features the GOP’s 2012 Presidential candidates getting a snootful of pepper spray on the cover of the SF BAY GUARDIAN, January 2012, art direction by Mirissa Neff.