20 Self-Portrait Doodles
Brian McMullen of McSweeney's is putting together a book of self-portrait doodles bypeople who are in literary, film, comedy and more.McMullen got the idea from Burt Britton's "Self-portrait", which was a collection of self portraits from the 1970's featuring over 500 writers of the time. Honestly I had to look up some of these names on this list, but the self-portraits are really neat. See them all here.
When I met the author Jonathan Ames in his office at Indiana University in late 2000, the only objects on his desk were a telephone and a stack of portrait doodles -- some of them self-portraits...
-- I asked about the doodles. Did he think of himself an artist? Not really. He compared the doodles to boogers. It can be fun to extract and admire a good one, he said (I paraphrase), before discarding it. (via)
Davey Rothbart
Jon Langford
Siri Hustvedt
Ramin Bahrani
Arsinee Khanjian
Sarah Silverman
Seymour Chwast
(credit: Salon)