Michigans Illo for Adirondack Life Magazine

For Adirondack Life Magazine, illustration for an article about "Michigans", a peculiar hot dog found in the North Country and Adirondack region of New York State. Great, thorough article on the subject that you can check out at adirondacklife.com. Also, T-Shirts!

Space 1026 Show Photos

Massive thanks to everyone who came out to the show even though it was 110 degrees & especially Kris Chau and everyone at Space 1026.

There's a ton of photos on flickr if you want to see more. 

There's also a handful of 30"x20"-ish screenprints (thanks Awesome Dudes Printing) of this South Philly Times Square piece left, $40 plus shipping if you're outside of Philadelphia, email me if you're interested.... Show is up 'til July 28th at 1026 Arch St!

Marc Maron & Lucky Peach

In other words the best illustration job of all time. When Lucky Peach called me up I was thrilled and assumed I would be drawing hot dogs. When I found out they wanted something for a Marc Maron story - who I has just started listening to - I was amazed. 

The story is about an iron skillet Maron bought from an ex-squatter during a time in his life where he was looking for an escape from self-loathing and marijuana, the ritual of scrubbing and seasoning cast iron doing the trick. Sort of. It's a great story and hopefully my illustration does it justice.

I listened to Marc Maron's WTF podcast non-stop while working on this, and haven 't really stopped. I've been hearing about his podcast for years and just thought it was one of those things everybody talks about but it's basically the best/funniest thing in the world. Go listen to the podcast, sign up for the premium app and buy awesome things like WTF t-shirts designed by Coop at wtfpod.com.

Also, TONS of illustration in this issue - Tony Millionaire, Lauren Weinstein and an awesome piece by Tim Lane. And a great story about The Schmitter by Tom Lax of Philadelphia's Siltbreeze records. Pick it up at mcsweeneys.net.

Space 1026 Show

Come check out my show of crazy Philadelphia drawings at Space 1026 in two weeks! Mostly black & white, no hot dogs (ok well there's a few in the background) and maybe some big wooden signs for fish hoagies and lottery tickets if i can get them done in time. Big 1-color prints of the above "South Philly times Square" piece will be available for 40 bucks a pop (printed by the best dudes over at Awesome Dudes). Also free tomato pie.

Space 1026

July 6th - 28th

Opening First Friday July 6th 6-10pm

1026 Arch Street, Philadelphia

Space1026.com

Philly Phoodie Hoagie Art

Commissioned piece for Thad of Philly Phoodie, an awesome local blog that covers all sorts of food but lots and lots of hoagies. I thought I ate a lot of hoagies but this dude definitely rivals or exceeds my hoagie intake, keeping it in check by cycling to most (all?) of his sandwich destinations, hitting all sorts of incredible spots that you've never heard of all over the city.

This painting is mostly based on the awesome looking sandwiches from Jack's Place in the northeast - never been but check out the Philly Phoodie post for info.  HUGE thanks to Gabrielle (Thad's girlfriend and official blog photographer) who commissioned this one for his 30th birthday.

Yellow Boy's Polish Boys

Artwork for Yellow Boy's Polish Boy, a cart in Colombus Ohio that serves the (previously) unique to Cleveland "Polish Boy" - a kielbasa covered in fries and cole slaw served at places like Freddie's Southern Rib House and Hot Sauce Williams, made semi-famous by Cleveland native Michael Symon who has featured it on a bunch of food shows. 

Yellow Boy's cart is run by Marcus Spivey who sets up around Columbus late night on the weekends as well as special events like the Columbus Country Music Festival (pictured above with the Lee Gantt Band.) Check it this article or follow Marcus on twitter for more info.

The Burger Map - Utah Royal Pastrami Burger

Last but not least in this series is The Burger Map's version of Utah's Pastrami Burger, a crazy fusion of NY deli and Utah Greek fast food immortalized by John T Edge's 2009 New York Times article. 

Probably my favorite piece of the series along with the Fried Onion Burger and also the burger I'm most dying to try. I guess you can find a burger with pastrami on it at plenty of places but I doubt it's going to look as good as this (photo from Robyn Lee / A Hamburger Today)

I really like how they're wrapped in a parchment sleeve... also important is the "fry sauce" that they put on everything, like most "secret sauces" it's basically russian dressing plus something else but something about the combo of Greek looking lettering and something called "fry sauce" just seems fantastic. Anyway here's Burger Map's version. 

And the process photos...

Tthe original is painting is currently hanging at Hot Diggity (630 South Street Philadelphia) where several people have try to order it every day. (Put it on the menu already dude!!!!)

The Burger Map

Rua das Aroeiras, 442 – Bairro Jardim.
Sto André – SP – CEP 09090-000
Tel. (11) 2534-0747

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