Moving To New York

Sketchbook Strips by Alec Longstreth

I mostly use my sketchbooks to try and document all of the things going on around me. So in 2004 when I moved from Portland, Oregon to New York City, my sketchbook quickly began to fill up with funny and bizarre interactions I had with New Yorkers. For my first year here I worked as an office temp for companies like Newsweek, Martha Stewart, and the AIGA. Then I went back to school to study illustration at Pratt Institute.

I have never really publicly shared any of my sketchbooks, so I mostly stuck to the funny entries and even some of those have been edited slightly. But they are all real things that happened to me. I also redrew a few sketchbook pages as full color "finished" art, so people will see that I can draw more than stick figures!

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Alec Longstreth has been drawing his Phase Seven Comics since 2002. In 2005 it won the Ignatz Award for outstanding minicomic. Alec currently resides in New York City where he attends Pratt Institute and is working on his first graphic novel: Basewood. In the last four years Alec has also lived in Ohio, Seattle, Los Angeles, Sydney, and Portland. He dreads the day when he will have to move again.

To see more of Alec's Comics work please visit his website:
www.alec-longstreth.com

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