Monday, March 21, 2011

Willamette Week Cheap Eats Guide


So for Willamette Week's annual Cheap Eats Guide they asked me to do a hot dog T-shirt design, that they actually printed and put on a dude that sort of looks like me and squirted some mustard on him. Awesome.

The photos were all shot by photographer Chris Ryan.


Along with the photo on the pull-out Cheap Eats Guide they also used a full color version of the design for the cover of the issue.



Read the article at Willamette Week!

La Taco Madness 2011


Recently finished this illustration for LA TACO's 2011 "Taco Madness" which is a March Madness bracket style competition pitting 32 of Los Angeles best tacos against each other.

Checking out photo after photo of LA tacos made me pretty hungry and jealous of the taco scene out there. Anyway it was awesome to go outside the hot dog zone, some prints of the art will be available soon!

Check out the bracket at LATACO.com.







Thursday, March 3, 2011

Rachael Ray Hot Dog Bracket



Last year, Every Day With Rachael Ray magazine asked Serious Eats (website I do the Hot Dog Of The Week illustrations for) to do a basketball-bracket style "best hot dog in the country" article and I was lucky enough to be a part of it.


While Serious Eats head honchos Ed Levine and Adam Kuban were in Arizona, Chicago, New York and the West Coast I was driving across the South hitting 5, 6, 7 hot dog joints a day. Along with eating and writing I also did a bunch of illustrations for the article, just published in this month's magazine.





You can check out the bracket here or grab the magazine but I wanted to post the full size paintings and bunch of stuff that they didn't use.






These quick napkin sketches (I did about 30 of them) were going to be photographed with some actual hot dogs but they ended up not being used.


Also not used was a bunch of lettering for the different sections of the article, a lot of which was fashioned after the awesome hand-painted signs at Angelo's Coney Island in Flint, Michigan. Check out my recent post on Angelo's for more photos.




Also some spot illustrations of "hot dog drink pairings" like Cheerwine with Pulliam's Slaw Dog and Moxie with a Flo's dog.

Much thanks to Serious Eats and everyone at Rachael Ray magazine. It was incredible to illustrate a story I had actually experienced and something I'd love to do again, whether it be hot dogs or something else entirely.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

One of them is right



Another short "Said What?" comic, see the whole thing here.

Edited by Benn Ray of Atomic Books, these comics are based on overheard
conversations and appear once a week in Baltimore's free daily "B paper".

Check out the archives including lots of great ones by Noah Van Sciver and Jordan Jeffries.