Okay, we're plugging a friend's book here…a very lovely, wordless collection of sketches by my pal Michael Paraskevas. Mickey (as we call him) is a brilliant cartoonist and illustrator whose work has been featured in dozens of fine books, most of them written by his mother Betty, ostensibly for children. I'd recommend them all to you — especially Junior Kroll — but right now, I'm suggesting L.A. Times, a new paperback collection of doodles from his frequent trips to Los Angeles. His style is unique and his "eye" for capturing the essence of all the purveys is uncanny. Like many artists, he carried around one of the bound books of drawing paper and captures whatever catches his attention. This self-published volume is a faithful reproduction of a sketchbook I saw him filling up on his visits out here, and it's great to have a copy of it I can call my own. Click here to order a copy.
(If you're in L.A., you can see a lot of Mickey's work exhibited over at the Storyopolis Gallery over on Robertson Blvd.) If you click on the picture, you and your credit card will be whisked over to Amazon where you can buy this splendid book — or anything else they have there — warmed by the knowledge that a teensy percentage of your purchase is going to this site. Bless you.