Since '97 I have been doing "multi-media" or "text-based" illustration, mostly for the New York Times. Either I'll write text and collaborate with a designer, or take a photograph, or a combination of both. At one point I was doing so many of these - along with my friend Nicholas Blechman - that we were obliged to use assume a pseudonym: Johnny Sweetwater. We got the name from a tavern in Williamsburg where we did a lot of our "thinking". You will see it on a couple of the images in this gallery which were selected from a much larger mass of work, often done with turnarounds of a matter of hours. These are scans from the actual published pages because context for this kind of stuff is everything. I also wrote brief descriptions below the enlarged images which might help. I have been doing far less of this since moving to LA - too far, it seems, from Sweetwater Tavern ...

What Is America? | New York Times Op-Art
The Sex in Taxes | New York Times Op-Ed
The Humor Section | New York Times Book Review
The Sweat Behind The Shirt | The Nation
Book Trailer | New York Times Book Review
What We Use to Learn About Ourselves | New York Times Magazine
Magnetic Subway | New York Times Op-Ed
Invented Languages | New York Times Book Review
Political Map of the Republic | New York Times Week in Review
Self-Portrait | New York Times Magazine
Asteroid 1997 XF11 | New York Times Op-Art
Genetically Modified Specials | New York Times Op-Art
George W. Bush Memorial Park | The Nation
Smog-In-A-Can | New York Times Op-Ed
Religion in School | New York Times Op-Ed
Post-Millenium Checklist | New York Times Op-Art
Postmodern TV | New York Times Op-Ed
Oscar Food Chain | The Nation
Neanderthal | New York Times Op-Ed
The Balloon Community Responds | New York Times Op-Art
Celestial Bodies | New York Times Op-Art
Magnetic Debate | New York Times Op-Art
The Elections Will Be Televised | New York Times Op-Ed
Science+Art | New York Times Op-Ed
On-Line Voting | George Magazine
More Weird Weather | New York Times Op-Art
Mice | New York Times Op-Ed
The Worry Gene | New York Times Op-Ed
Elephant Stampede | New York Times Op-
14 Expressions for the Distressed Wall Street Trader | New York Times Op-Art
Grapes of Wrath '98 | New York Times Op-Ed
Alternate Taxes | New York Times Op-Art
Art Removed for Security Purposes | New York Times Op-Ed
Shockin' Art Materials | New York Times Op-Ed
Made in ... | New York Times Op-Art
E-Mail You Should Be Leery Of | New York Times Op-Art
Gas-Mask | New York Times Op-Ed
Mental Illness | New York Times Op-Ed
The End | New York Times Op-Art