This week’s Last Word comes from Metropolis intern Robert Masucci. Not sure what the reaction to his piece will be, but I can just hear the eye-rolls of hardened long-time expats already. I thought this one looked alright until I took another look at it … Read More →
Category Archives: Illustrations
The Last Word: C.B. Liddell
This week’s Last Word, a descriptive and rather wordy explanation of Saitama politics that pressed me to skim to the conclusion (!) was written by Metropolis contributing art editor, C.B. Liddell. The photo he provided to base the illustration from was fantastic, and looked something … Read More →
The Last Word: Kevin Mcgue
This week’s Last Word article was written by none other than freelancer Kevin Mcgue. The illustration unfortunately doesn’t do Kevin any justice, though someone was nice enough to point out his hair looks a bit like McJagger’s. Whee! For more Last Word goodness (?) check … Read More →











Asakawa Maki portrait
Through circumstances of coincidence, for the past year or so I’ve been drawing the Last Word author portraits for Metropolis Magazine. Quality varies, and for that I’m both apologetic and happy this is not the skill that puts food on my plate. With the (kinda) … Read More →