New one for New one for @postopinions.bsky.social, ‘I Was a Jan. 6 juror. What I learned surprised me’ by Lauren Ober. Thanks so much to AD Michelle Kondrich.

Illustrating James Baldwin’s 1964 essay, ‘Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare,’ in particular his description of “hearing” Shakespeare for the first time in a passage from Julius Caesar.

You can read the essay here: theacademyatstc.org/pdfviewer/ja...

#illustration #jamesbaldwin #shakespeare

Image illustrating the horror of Trump’s cruel and endless executive orders.

#illustration #art #editorialillustration #trump

Some more pages from ‘And Now…’ a storybook/zine I made set at an uncanny cabaret circus.

@realgdt.bsky.social’s incomparable ‘Nightmare Alley’ was a major influence on this project.

You can view the full book here:
www.joseph-rogers.com/and-now-full

#illustration #art

For The Washington Post Opinion, ‘Covid flipped the introvert-extrovert script. And I hate it.’ 2023

#editorialillustration #art

Another page from ‘And Now…’ a storybook/zine I made set at an uncanny cabaret circus.

You can view the full book here:
joseph-rogers.com/and-now-full

#illustration #art

Swedish explorer S. A. Andrée’s doomed 1897 balloon expedition to the North Pole. Really interesting bit of history that I recommend checking out, especially the photos that were only discovered by chance over 30 years later:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3...

#illustration #art #history

Portrait of House Speaker Mike Johnson, who wants to control where you shit.

#art #illustration #transliberation

Sketches from the Met on Saturday

Illustration responding to the 2024 Louisiana state law which requires that the Ten Commandments be displayed in all public classrooms. Last week this law was blocked by a federal judge as being unconstitutional.

For The Marshall Project’s ‘Life Inside’ series — “A Serious Case of Prison Visit Blues - Tariq MaQbool reflects on disruptive COVID-era visitation restrictions that remain in effect at New Jersey State Prison.” AD Marci Suella.

Image from ‘And Now…’ a storybook/zine I made set at an uncanny cabaret circus.

You can view the full book here:
joseph-rogers.com/and-now-full

Portrait of Emma Goldman, revolutionary anarchist writer and activist (1869-1940).