Monday, June 30, 2008

April in Paris-Milano-NYC "The Hushed Battle of the Google-Proof"


This is my debut drawing for my April in Paris - Milano - NYC series. It was sparked by my fascination of two friends who boast of being unGoogle-able: 0 references to their names on Google. If I wanted to be wicked I would write their names right here & now to put an end to their tiresome bragging. (Note: Carla Bruni-Sarkozy seated to April's right.)
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Thursday, August 16, 2007

The Umbrella- April in Paris September issue

Today I will draw up my 'April in Paris' strip for the September issue.  

I have been thinking about the weather in Paris and I wonder when the secret is going to leak: Paris is ALWAYS grey and drizzly. Even so, people still flock here and always seem surprised at the bad weather as if they unwittingly picked the wrong week to come. 

Everyone knows that London is foggy but somehow Parisians have managed to make the tourists believe that the lack of sunny days is highly unusual and somehow due to the  tourist's own bad luck. In a grander scale the argument goes that global warming is to blame for the strange weather patterns and if the conversation is to take it's normal course, the fault will ultimately be traced to US government policy. (Most conversations wrap themselves up here with the US government to blame.)

So  I soak in the local chit chat and just when I start to feel awashed with shame and desperation (that they are so eager to bear witness to) a little voice tucked inside me tells me to "resist".  I will not let them under my skin.

So back to my strip: April will be standing there with a beautiful colored umbrella against a line of miserable Parisian characters with raised grey and black umbrellas.  The title? Resistance.

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