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How to Quit Smoking, One Illustration at a Time

Arts, Culture & Media

The owner of New York City’s punniest pizza shop illustrates his way out of his pesky smoking habit. 

Tony Bennett: Gentleman, Singer, Doodler

Arts, Culture & Media

Gene Luen Yang, Ambassador from the Land of Comics

Arts, Culture & Media

Don’t Cry over Spilled Coffee. Make Art out of It

Arts, Culture & Media

Beautiful Portraits from the Twilight of Life

Arts, Culture & Media
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PFC Justin Blue of the 3rd Platoon, Apache Troop, 1st Squadron, 75th Calvary Regiment, from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). He is taking a break while on patrol near the village of Qalandrakhel a few miles outside of B

Using a pencil, not a lens, to capture images of the war in Afghanistan

Conflict

Not many people would bring a sketch pad to a war zone instead of a camera, but Richard Johnson has drawn his way through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now he’s turning his attention to “Drawing up the Drawdown” as the US effort in Afghanistan comes to an end.

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