Pizza Pizza

The March issue of Seattle Met‘s about to hit the stands. Here are some highlights.

Hank Drew shot the cover:

Pizza cover

Here’s a sketch I did back in January. Pretty close, except I ended up flipping the direction of the pizza and eliminating the cheese pull:

Pizza sketch

And here’s the opening spread:

Pizza Smackdown

Lia Cerizo, one of my art interns, did this collage for the Mudroom opener:

Mudroom opener

I had her reference this Rushmore poster for the layout:

Rushmore poster

For this article about the dangers of disastrous flooding in Downtown Seattle, I illustrated the Seattle Art Museum’s Hammering Man installation awash in the flood. First I did a vector version in Illustrator —

Vector Hammering Man

— then, referencing disaster movie posters like this one —

The Day After Tomorrow

— I added water, lighting and rain effects in Photoshop:

Mudroom Hammering Man

Amos Morgan shot the Dining Out opener:

Dining opener

Here’s my sketch for the opener of the ‘Sea Change” feature. I sent this off to Jesse Champlin for reference for his photo illustration:

Sea Change sketch

And here’s how the opening spread turned out:

Sea Change

And finally: This Sunday I made my usual visit to the Ballard Farmer’s Market (it’s a couple block from my apartment), and was checking out some stand or other when I heard the unmistakable voice of Chris Ballew, lead singer of the Presidents of the United States of America, singing a few steps away from where I stood. I was shocked — I’d had a great time seeing the Presidents at the Huntridge in Vegas back in ’97, and probably still have the flyer somewhere. And they just sold out two shows at the Showbox last week — so why’s he playing at the Farmer’s Market like any other street performer??

Chris Ballew

I gladly tipped him two bucks and asked him what he was doing there. He said his new wife keeps a stand at the market, and he just likes to accompany her. Isn’t that nice? We talked about Vegas for a minute (the Presidents had just played there again a week ago), and he told me he’ll probably be at the Ballard Farmer’s Market most Sundays. As soon as I got home I listened to II and had fond memories of creative writing class, Atlandia Design and my first solo apartment.