Paul Rogers Studio

2008

Tournament of Roses

December 29 The LA Times ran a few sketchbook drawings about the transformation my Pasadena neighborhood goes through during the...

Happy Shoe Year

December 24 Wouldja just leave already? Best Holiday Wishes to everyone at Drawger.

Shadow and Light

December 15 I get a call from Farrar, Straus & Giroux to design a book jacket for a novel by Jonathan Rabb that is set in...

London Sketchbook

November 14 The last two years I was invited to join a group of students from Art Center on a trip to London led by Illustration...

Name That Movie 2

October 25

William Claxton 1927-2008

October 14 I had just graduated from Art Center in 1980 and was making the rounds with my portfolio, seeing anyone who’d...

Forever Young is in a bookstore near you.

October 11 Forever Young is in the stores. Illustrating a book for kids that takes one of Bob Dylan’s most loved songs was a...

Weekly Reader

October 2 I just finished some portraits of African-American leaders for current event posters to be put in classrooms by The...

Polo Grounds 1951

September 19 American Express is producing a book with portraits and feature articles about some of their charter members. I was...

The Studio Museum in Harlem

September 17 The Studio Museum in Harlem called the other day. They carry the book Jazz ABZ  in their bookstore and...

Forever Young

July 28 I just received an advance copy of “Forever Young.” Last year, Ginee Seo and Ann Bobco at Simon and...

NYT Week in Review

June 30 Last Wednesday Aviva Michaelov at The New York Times called with an assignment for the cover of Sunday's Week in...

Playboy Jazz Festival

May 19 This June is the 30th anniversary Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl. Every year they produce a nice program...

Opening Day

March 31 From deep in the archives...During the years 1997-2001 my friend Dan Simon was in charge of much of the design for...

Now this...

March 24 Last week we got the "So?" and now we get thisIn an exclusive interview with ABC News, Vice President Dick...

Paperback Covers for Random House

March 18 Last year I get a call from Random House in London for two Ernest Hemingway paperback covers for the Vintage series....

LA Bookstores

March 5 The Los Angels Times is running an article this Sunday on the closing of Dutton's Books in Brentwood and they've...

New Orleans

January 15 I did this drawing for The Progressive in the days following Katrina as  the country watched  an entire city...