"random new york", 1998

I drew this one in early 1998, during my first months of living in Manhattan.

I liked all those intense, late-night random conversations with all sorts of equally random Manhattan people- especially at first- but of course, after a while they all start to sound the same.

This is the kind of drawing one does sitting on a New York barstool, when one is not liking one’s day job nearly well enough. That was my situation at the time, anyway.

If today I met my younger self from back then, I’d say to him, “You’re just paying your dues, Kiddo. Frickin’ get over yourself…”

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