Atlas is my current ongoing series, published by Drawn & Quarterly.

ATLAS #3 (Drawn & Quarterly)  100 pages (including covers) US$3.95 Contents: Atlas, episode 1 There are no words in my mouth Letter to Hicksville: Schoolbus, by guest  cartoonist James Kochalka 2002 HARVEY AWARD NOMINEE (Best single issue or story)	ATLAS #2 (Drawn & Quarterly)  36 pages (including covers) US$2.95 Contents: Atlas, episode 2 The Magic Pen, episode 1	ATLAS #3 (Drawn & Quarterly)  36 pages (including covers) US$2.95 Contents: Atlas, episode 3 The Magic Pen, episode 2 2007 IGNATZ AWARD NOMINEE (Outstanding series)

For nearly 70 years Emil Kopen has been Cornucopia’s most popular cartoonist - the closest thing this tiny Central European monarchy has to a poet laureate. As cartographer, soldier, cartoonist and politician, Kopen has had an impact on the twentieth century history of his nation few can rival. But now the elderly Kopen has gone blind and lives in forced retirement and isolation. Until, that is, the arrival of our author, who wants to record Kopen’s life story.

Atlas is that story - from Kopen’s peasant childhood in the mountains of Cornucopia to the cartooning sweatshops of New York in the late thirties; from the horrors of Nazi occupation to the hope and disillusionment of postwar Europe. But it is also the story of Kopen’s journey to Hicksville and of his struggle to come to terms with his own past and his country’s future, as centuries of isolation from the rest of the world give way to economic globalisation and market-driven disorder.

For Kopen still has one final part to play in determining the political and cultural destiny of Cornucopia. And that country’s feared secret police will stop at nothing to prevent him...

Atlas is a long, sprawling saga of comics, cartography and magic, revisiting two landscapes introduced in Hicksville: the eponymous comics-obsessed town and the mysterious Cornucopia. Along the way, it will explore the nature of comics, the politics of the new millennium, the frailty of love and the secret to mapping the sky...

(click on thumbnails to see some sketches and sample illustrations)
NEW! Cover and interior art from ATLAS #1
Sketches and illustrations