Artists and Aggregation

May 26

CAIRO is about to go into galleys. While writing the book has been a long process, I can’t help but reflect that MK, the artist, really hasn’t put down his pencils and inks for a year and a half. A year. And a half. I don’t think he’s taken a full day off the entire time. I encourage you to check out some of his other work while you wait for our joint effort.

Brian Domingos of PopImage pointed me toward a video Joshua Middleton has posted on his blog, featuring the creation of the cover art for OUTSIDERS: FIVE OF A KIND. For those of us whose artistic ability is limited to stick figures, it’s an enlightening couple of minutes.

I really don’t know how I got lucky enough to work with such talented (that sounds almost crass: they’re masterful, wonderful) artists so early in my career. I blame my editors.

From art to information: while I’ve written several pieces about the importance of new media in the ongoing conversation about the state of the world, I’ve written less about the ways people can participate in it. For those of you into ground-level information out of the Muslim world, Aziz Poonawalla of City of Brass runs a live, continuous feed of web-based English-language commentary and analysis. It’s called Carnival of Brass; click here if you’re interested in adding the feed to your site.