By Mark Kaufman

Conservatism. It's a win/lose proposition

By Mark Kaufman

A Klassic Kaufman illustration for the Oxford American Magazine. Those in the know may recognize the James Thurber essay that I used for the illustration bed.

Move over Levi Johnston! Joe Lieberman needs more attention.By Mark Kaufman

MAo, Hitler, Stalin, Castro, Chavez, OBAMA! BOO!By Mark Kaufman

Too busy to post this Halloween leftover until now. Happy belated Halloween. I've noticed that Xmas crap is already in stores.

By Mark Kaufman

Detail from my hot off the press, off-year, off with their heads election nightmare comic. Two full pages in The Stranger. See it online in all it's gory glory here. Tip of the severed head to EC Comics and the great Basil Wolverton.

By Mark Kaufman

I just finished a massive Election Nightmare comic. Sent off the files to the publication today, the newspaper hits the streets tomorrow. This is some hand lettering that didn't make it nto the new comic. I'll post more later. Two of my favorite things; monsters and politics.

American Humor. Three Stooges–Cheech and Chong–Glenn Beck

By Mark Kaufman

Detail from a new illustration for The Stranger Election Control Board 2009 endorsement issue. We have all mail-in voting in WA state now. I absolutely HATE IT, it just feels wrong, something is missing in the process, and I think that something is civic engagement. I have not missed a vote in decades, and that includes presidential year elections, off year elections, primaries, dog catcher elections…I just know that in the near future I will forget to mail in my ballot on time since voting has now been reduced to the level of junk mail. Did I mention that I hate mail-in voting?

By Mark Kaufman

Louis Vincent Albano better known as Captain Lou Albano has gone off to the squared circle in the sky. This video has it all; Captain Lou, NRBQ and the great Uncle Floyd, it is pandemonium, psychedelic pandemonium, as the good Captain would say in his ratatatat, freeform style, it is THE BEST THE ONE THE ONLY THE MOSTEST THE LEGEND THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME! Captain you will be missed.

Great song, great band, great show, the great Captain. When I was a young fella I had one of my drawings on The Uncle Floyd Show. 

In a double dose of sadness, Steve Ferguson, a founding NRBQ member also passed away in the last week. Condolences.

By Mark Kaufman

A punch to the typeface. NBC  V Font Bureau in a typographic court battle over font licensing that should make us all shudder if we have ever done the wrong thing either by accident or on purpose. We have been warned.

Grab yer guns! The Freddie, Fannie Acorn Death Panels are coming!!!

By Mark Kaufman

The Huffington Post clued me into the work of The Centennial Society/Packard Jennings. A whole bunch of really clever art projects that subvert the man, including this page from their Business Reply Pamphlet project. Check it. This is art and illustration I can get behind.

The Hitler moustache on Obama is so August. Try one of these on for size.

Britton by Britton. Bloomsbury AuctionsBy Mark Kaufman

Wonderful article in the New York Times yesterday regarding Burt Britton’s collection of self-portrature of renown writers, artists, celebrities, and athletes. The collection was to be auctioned off by Bloomsbury Auctions. Really quite a novel, and creative collection of self portraits.