STAFF & NON-STAFF POSITIONS 2013-2018 Contributing Writer, The Atlantic and Photograph 2004-2006 Web critic, The New York Times, reviewed Web art and culture 1997-2005 Arts & Ideas reporter, The New York Times 1995-2004 Photography critic, The New York Times 1994-1997 Staff editor, The Week in Review of The New York Times 1989-1994 Preview editor, The New York Times Book Review 1988-1989 Writer, Sports Illustrated, Sports Illustrated for Kids 1984-1987 Writer, Discover magazine 1982-1984 Associate editor & columnist, The Sciences, NY Academy of Sciences 1980-1981 Reporter, The Brooklyn Phoenix
OTHER WORK 2014-2017 Judge for The L.A. Times Book Prize (graphic novels and comics) 1984-2015 Contributor to Artforum, The Atlantic, The Comics Journal, the L.A. Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, Photograph, Slate, The Smithsonian, Washington Post 1992-2018 Drawings and comics for the New York Reviewonline, The New York Times Book Review, and the Week in Review of The New York Times 1997 "A Lewd Awakening," a comic in Dick for a Day EDUCATION 1980 Harvard University, B.A. with honors in philosophy 1980s-1990s NY Studio School, Parsons, NY Academy of Art, Art Students League -- drawing classes
LECTURES & INTERVIEWS 2017 - Lewis Carroll Society of North America Alice: What's in a Nameslide lecture (Oct 28) 2015 - NPR On Point "Charlie Brown Is Back" (Oct.23) - Breadbox (Catholic) Media, The Mike Allen Show "Why Charles Schulz Might Hate the Upcoming Movie (Oct 16) 2014 - NPR Weekend Edition "Kids' Films And Stories Share A Dark Theme: Dead Mothers ... " (July 13) 2008 - The Phillips Collection, Center for the Study of Modern Art, guest lecture on comics (Nov 17) - Google (Cambridge), author’s talk on Ultimate Blogs (Aug 7) - Society of National Association Publications, lecture on blogging (June 10) - New York Institute for the Humanities and Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, “Post Bang” panel (June 6) - Columbia Journalism School, guest lecture on blogging and journalism (May 14) - Society of Professional Journalists, keynote, “The Ants Go Blogging” (April 12) - Denver Press Club, discussion about blogging and journalism (April 11) - Australian Broadcasting Corporation, The Book Show, radio interview (April 2) - New Hampshire Public Radio, interview about Ultimate Blogs (March 2) - Harvard Bookstore, panel discussion about Ultimate Blogs (March 2) - New York University, Journalism Department, guest lecture on blogging and journalism (Feb 20) - WNYC, The Leonard Lopate Show, "The Best of the Blogs" with Jennie Portnof & Alex Ross (Feb 18), - Barnes and Noble (Chelsea), panel with Alex Ross and Jennie Portnof (Feb 18) - NPR, Day to Day, interview about Ultimate Blogs (Feb 13) 2007 - NPR, Morning Edition, "The Big Book of Blogs," interview with Renee Montagne (Dec 25) 2006 - Newark Art Museum, panel discussion on George Herriman’s “Krazy Kat,” with Stanley Crouch, Steven Guarnaccia, Patrick McDonnell (Oct 29) - Parsons/New School, Illustration Symposium, keynote lecture, “The Cat Makes the Man” (Nov 1) 2002 - San Francisco Art Institute, Art Writing Conference, keynote lecture “September 11: But Is It Art?” 2001 - American Psychoanalytic Association, Writers & Analysts: “Dr. Freud and Dr. Floyd” - NPR, “Whad’Ya Know,” radio interview about In the Floyd Archives - NY1, television interview about In the Floyd Archives 2000 - Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, conference on “The Unknowable”
MEMBERSHIPS 2006-2018 National Book Critics Circle (voting member)