A pic of comics publisher/tastemaker/prophet Ryan Sands. After I finished the brushy version I realized my digital sketch was, in addition to looking more like him, better. Whoops.

Check out Ryan’s publishing company Youth In Decline for very cool comics. YiD sometimes offers subscription offers, where you can subscribe for a year and receive everything he puts out. Maybe I’m just noticing it now, but are subscriptions a mini-trend amongst micropublishers (?). Seems like an elegant and sensible way of funding future projects.

NYTBR BTB: Donna Tartt

I’m still doing the weekly “By The Book” column in the New York Times Book Review. I think this one turned out well. I enjoyed Donna Tartt‘s hair.