<3 cartoonists

What’s All This?

Some sketches for an upcoming project I’m knee-deep in and very excited about. Will tell you more later!

Klezmerband

From a photo in ‘Tracing An-sky’ (1992,1994)

Anxiety

Trying to get my head and my finances together yesterday. Went to the HRA office to apply for food stamps. I have a lot of anxiety around getting my finances together but I think it’s gonna be ok. I felt a lot better after making this drawing.

Made this sketch while I was waiting earlier in the day.

Waiting area at the HRA office

Polish Jews

Old Jew [Warsaw]

Grandfather and granddaughter [Warsaw]

Hasid in furred hat [Cracow]

Synagogue court [Vilna]

Jewish shopkeepers and merchants

Some sketches I have been making as warm-up drawings lately from Polish Jews, photographs by Roman Vishniac of pre-war Jewish life published by Schocken Books in 1947.

For more on this book, check out this fascinating article about Roman Vishniac and the received images we have of pre-war Jewish life in Eastern Europe from the New York Times.