Click the image above to read “New York Bagel”!

New York is a magnificent place. Can you believe that I went there for the first time ever?? I had a blast with my classmates, Ben Frisch, Amber Gant, Lilly Higgs, Caleb Soloman, and Dean of SCAD: John Lowe. It was a brilliant week, felt longer than 8 days, and it’s too bad I won’t be back for a long long time. I kept a log of it in my sketchbook. It’s filled with visits to plenty of professional offices and practicing artists, including:

• Mickey Duzyj
• Rebekah Isaacs (whose name I spelt wrong throughout my journal, SORRY!)
• Cliff Chiang
• Paulo Rivera (whose name has a ‘o’ in place of the ‘u’. Gawrsh, I’m a great journalist).
• R. Kikuo Johnson
• Sean Chen
• Peter Kuper
• DC Comics
• Marvel Comics
• First Second Books
• ….and more!
• Special thanks to my great friend Alyssa and her family for housing me for a period of time (she’s in the journal for a bit, too). Hope you enjoy these 20-24 pages of my vacation/class!

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