From the introduction - “You can only suggest reality, you can’t show me  Reality” (George Inness)  “Nothing is so abstract as reality”...

From the introduction - This portfolio of prints was going to be my 1st essay in landscape graphics, 1978. It was not realized until...

This, my most recent book of themed prints will certainly re-secure my unchallenged position as Americas least wanted graphic artist. ...

There was a time when visual art mattered and hands and brains were project requirements. hat time was not so long ago.   In 1966 a few...

From the introduction - Old Highway 80 is a crumbling frontage road now, and it was worse back in the day. It was one of only two...

Sid Vicious freeing himself from the oppressive tyranny of acquiring a skill, (like it was ever his problem). It’s getting very hard  to...

Capitalism is sort of like that glad-handing yuppie supervisor at work. Loud mouth, big smile, greedy and not too bright, with a barely...

One breathless argument for the inevitable world domination of AI in creative art goes like this - People who possess no analog skill, or...

Like the typewriter mechanic, the milkman, the paste-up boy or the dog-whipper, I am coming to terms with losing my job forever, an early...

My most recent graphic novel “WALKABOUT” does not inform space monsters from the 4th dimension, female warriors with big boobs in...

The new great American dream, for a lot of us anyway, is to get the hell out of America before the landlord doubles the rent, again, ...

Ashley Holt, mild mannered ex-librarian of a great metropolitan university, is fighting a never ending battle to explain himself and his...

INTRODUCTION - My first encounter with the esteemed Mr. Holt was as a fellow nomad, wandering Facebook’s great digital wasteland between...

My brief but intense romance with the American museum establishment began in 2013 and ended in 2014. It has been 10 years since one or...

“When machines can do everything you will see a generation of idiots” Einstein The media pimps did a little more crank last week and...

I’m a collector of old detritus, god help me, a complete set of 1963 MAD magazines, a tattered family photograph of uncle Don playing...

J. Daniel Abel - Andy Warhol, 2023 I have often marveled at the shear fecklessness of modern American fame. In 1962, Andy Warhol, an...

It is sobering to think that I am now 2 years older than my dad was when he died. Here he is in 1957, when he hoisted a 3 year old me up...

I’m sort of down on gallery shows these days, and that’s the main reason I went into book publishing. I'm not actually bitter about the...

I knew Rick Geary back in the day, late 1980s. Both of us were grinding out weekly illustrations for the pulps, the San Diego Reader and...