America's Quarterly: Impact Investing

This set of illustrations is in the current issue of America's Quarterly for an article by Johnathan Murdoch about impact investing. Each image illustrates warnings for potential impact investors. Take a look at the story here for a little more context (although be warned, the illustrations are not included in the web version.)

"Win Win Possibilities are enticing but exaggerrated"

"For profit investment seldom targets the poorest"

"The profit incentive still operates within impact investing and can undermine stated goals."

"The reality of impact investing is often more complicated than it is presented"

"Most impact investment funds are made up by a mix of charitable and for-profit investing"

"Investment opportunities that meet the requirements of impact investors are hard to find."

"It challenging to quantify social impact."

Book Review: Barbarian Nurseries

I have a new illustration in this week's Book Review. Check out the review here. I am especially excited to be sharing an issue with the fantastic illustrator and animator Richard McGuire. If you have never seen it, check out his "Fear(s) of the Dark" here. Thanks to Nicholas Blechman for the great assignment!

Book Review: "Barbarian Nurseries"

New York Times: Cost of Health Care

A new illustration in today's New York times. Check out the story here, or find the hardcopy on the Op-ED page.

New York Times: "Cost of Health Care"

Seattle Met: Nostalgia Trap

In this month's "Game Changers" column, Matthew Halverson reports on a recent class action lawsuit brought against the friend finding site Classmates.com. The case, which ended in a 2.5 million dollar settlement, alleged that customers had been lured with false claims that their old friends had been looking for them. People would sign up only to find that no one they knew was using the service, and months later realize that the monthly fees had doubled after the initial trial period.

Yearbook photo on a fishing hook

A Class Photo in which all but one of the people are Carboard Cutouts

A High School Reunion with Decoy People

For the sketches I tried a few different ways of visualizing either: (A) the idea of using someones friends as bait, or (B) the idea of realizing that everyone with you at a reunion is a ghost/decoy/replicant/what-have-you.

Seattle Met: Classmates Class Action

 For the final illustration, we went with the "Photo on a Hook" sketch. My art director Andre Mora suggested the inclusion of a few other partial panels as well as a torn edge to help establish that this was a yearbook page. And as usual, the changes were a big improvement. Thanks Andre!