Once upon a time (that time being around 1980), a magazine in south Florida called Easy Times hired me to paint a cover for an issue that focused on a small group of hot young comedians. And so “The Comedians,” as I named it, was born. In this blast-from-the-past, see how many of them you can identify. If you get them all, you’re probably as ancient as I am.
(My thanks in particular to Muffy McClung Berlyn, the editor at that time who green-lighted the cover.)
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Sherman’s set the Wayback Machine for the 1960s, when I gravitated into art school, only to suffer–in my second year–a catastrophic apartment fire that wiped out 100% of the charcoal drawings and oil paintings I’d done in those two years (but not, amazingly, my first attempt at a short story, written for a night class I was taking). It’s only recently that I’ve started looking back at some of that illustration work (most of what I drew or painted fits that category). So I’m thinking maybe I’ll post a few of the survivors just for shits and giggles, starting with this Disney Fantasia-inspired technical pen rendition of Chernobog…because I always go for the light subjects.
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This past week I had the true pleasure of immersing in Rodion Shchedrin’s re-imagining of Bizet’s “Carmen” as executed to perfection by the Philadelphia Orchestra and danced by Brian Sanders’ JUNK. Potent, sexual, and sublime. No single image can do justice to the language of this production, so here are two. Imagine ballet, Fosse, pole dancing, and gymnastics “horses” in a sexually charged production. (Thank you to Cynthia & Michael DeStefano!)
