I have an interview up on the illustration blog Illustrophile. You can read it here. Thanks to the wonderful Charlene Chua (who’s beautiful work can be seen here). – Benjamin

Given how lousy, depressed and out-and-out terrifying the housing market is, there’s a substantial amount of guilt attached to how much fun it was to do this piece for the Sunday New York Times. The article, in essence, suggests that the recently approved housing bill (designed to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) [...]

Evening, slackers. While you were picking lice out of your neighbor’s hair, I completed a new painting. It’s for the annual I AM 8-BIT gallery show out in sunny Los Angeles. All of the pieces deal with 80s video games in some respect. Mine’s about Bionic Commando, a game I loved but paradoxically [...]

For those who are about as poorly versed as I am with the vernacular of hedge funds, brokerage firms and the language of modern finance, I learned this week that hedge funds don’t get along so well with big firms like Bear Sterns (R.I.P) and Lehman Brothers. This is primarily because hedge funds (which are [...]

Here’s a couple of drawings I did for the upcoming issue of Comics Comics, the comic book review newspaper put out by PictureBox.
- Benjamin

This spot was just completed for one of Kurt Andersen’s Imperial City articles in New York Magazine about objectivity in cable news and what we stand to lose and gain in the wake of Tim Russert’s passing. The article (which is well worth your while) is here, and other sketches I did for the spot [...]