
Job:05-19413 Title:Creating Comics
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Title: Best of Manhattan
Client: New York Press, 2001
Media: Pencil, pen, and paint on paper
Creative Process
This piece was done in 2001 for New York Press.
It was the inside cover for the summer supple-
ment listing the “Best of Manhattan.” This was a
really fun piece to work on. It was warm outside,
so I went out and did a lot of street sketching on
St. Mark’s Place. I enjoyed making up the crazy
characters—based on reality, of course—and
adding funky little details. (Note the Peter Bagge
cover on the paper the man is reading in the
lower-right ...