Grew up on New Yorker illustrations | semi◦diffusion #28

Still drawing in their shadow.

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been hooked on the illustrations in The New Yorker—I used to buy the magazine just to stare at those quiet, offbeat images that said so much without saying a word.

This issue of semi◦diffusion is a small nod to that influence: minimal, surreal, a little detached—but always personal. My own version of that visual language, dra…