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View fullsize A million years ago I went to the @festivaldecannes where I 1) wore skin-tight black polyester Levis 2) was mistaken for Guillaume Depardieu 3) ate pizza with a fried egg for the first time (and Haagen Daz Glace Caramel au beurre salé more tim
View fullsize I haven’t been as emotionally touched by an exhibit in a while as I was by @vmfamuseum ‘s Friday Kahlo exhibit. It was reverential. It was heartbreaking. It was sumptuous. It was delicate. 
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View fullsize The John Singer Sargent exhibit at @metmuseum is delicious. Couldn’t help but want to recreate some of the men on the walls. 
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View fullsize Making a pilgrimage to NYC to see our pop empress, Kylie. Felt right to commemorate some of her musical wisdom with hand-painted text. 

Anyone headed to the @cmoneverybodybk partay to celebrate her?
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View fullsize One of the best things about illustrating DOGTOWN is seeing how excited readers are about it! Last month I did school visits, library visits, created a personalized pep-rally video for a group of Canadian schools reading DOGTOWN, and drew and audienc
View fullsize My friend, the journalist and New York Times bestselling author @marisameltzer , has been called dishy. I call her divine. Her Soft Power substack is a pill you’ll want to pop if you crave a fabulous Sherpa in the luxe world of beauty and welln
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View fullsize Very excited to be giving my Drawing DOGTOWN presentation at the Brunswick Library in Frederick, MD, this afternoon at 4:30 PM. If you can’t make that time, I’m at another lovely Frederick library (the Brunswick Branch) at 2:30 PM this Fr
View fullsize I’m def more of a Cartier boy than a Tiffany queen. Maybe mostly because I love a jungle cat. Here’s to amour that matters on V Day. 

And thanks to @retro__ralph for the perfect moment to illustrate. 
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View fullsize I come for the music, glamour, and star performance,  and I leave with so many moments I want to illustrate. I can’t help it. @mxviv is the perfect muse. I think I found my holiday card for next year. 
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View fullsize For the last 16 years, the following ritual of 1) Beverage 2) Dynasty 3) Underwear Procurement has given me the comfort of a holiday on my own terms. 

It all started by happenstance one winter in Los Angeles and it fabulously stuck. 

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View fullsize Seven of Capote’s swans go for a swim to stay trim.
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View fullsize A drum sounds better on the 12th day of Christmas when a dozen woodpeckers take over.
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View fullsize Lord Fauntleroy and 9 of his friends gave up leaping this year. In their stead, 10 titled birds leapt through the air (while one stayed grounded and wondered what the holly they were doing.)
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View fullsize Oh, hello White Elephant. 

The time-honored tradition of bad gift exchanging + my affection for animals + my love of New Yorker cartoons by Sofia Warren and Ellis Rosen = this piece.
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View fullsize Notice: in this performance of The 12 Days of Christmas, 9 dancing ladies will be replaced with their understudies, a chorus line of cranes. 

Subtext here is that these cranes all gave a Nomi Malone Showgirl shove down the stairs to said ladies befo

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