Here are just a few of the friends and strangers who I think are rad:
- Lisel Ashlock for her haunting paintings on wood
- Kate Beaton for starting a sexy revolution in online comics
- Andre da Loba for the (annoyingly brilliant) ways he is re-thinking books
- Dunja Jankovic, since I have a huge crush on her comics
- Joanna Neborsky for her love of shmoes and morbid news items
- Anna Raff for her watercolor creatures
- Julia Rothman for her daily inspiration from books
- Rob Ryan for his cut paper and words
- Sybille Schenker for her line work and panoramas
- Shaun Tan, since I'd sincerely like to be him when I grow up
- And then of course everyone in the School of Visual Arts' MFA Illustration class of 2009!