©2007 Roofus. Brooklyn Paper.
Of all Brooklyn issues, none has dominated the debate more than Bruce Ratner’s massive Atlantic Yards project (and while I’m at it, here’s a plug for the opposition). So massive is this project that it will essentially eat an entire neighborhood, displace its residents and radically alter the Brooklyn skyline. […]

©2007. Roofus. Brooklyn Paper
so they changed their minds and astroland can stay open another year. ultimately, it’s still doomed but now i guess i get my chance to go check it out before its gone. since i essentially buried astroland last week, now that things have turned around, i thought i had no […]

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i decided that from now on im going to sign every painting differently.
i fight with myself alot about putting too many metaphors into an illustration because you want to maintain a topical focus. im also dead set against the bad habit many editorial illustrators have of labeling everything. […]

© 2007 Roofus. The Brooklyn Paper
The end draws near for Coney Island’s famed Astroland amusement park. It makes little sense to me what kind of person, no matter what kind of profit they could make, would want to get rid of such an iconic place. Astroland, probably the site of so many emotional […]

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a cruise ship port was built in brooklyn with the promise of creating jobs and tourist money for brooklyn. predictably, neither has materialized and the cruise industry drives (literally in some cases) its passengers straight to manhattan, bypassing beautiful brooklyn altogether. its a shame because brooklyn is a really great […]

i always think dennis kuspinach. i cant say anything bad about the guy. hes got to be one of the most sincere people in washington. im not sure that as president hed get anything accomplished considering who he has to work with.

i dont have much to say about hillary clinton. she creeps me out. (ok i have a lot to say about her but none of it is particularly good)

i went to see barack obama recently in brooklyn. all it cost me was $25. not bad. he is one of the only candidates ive seen so far that doesnt sound like he takes a focus group poll to try and figure out what to say…and he actually sounds like a normal person. […]

I’m spending the next month and change learning about all of the candidates for president in ‘08 and doing portraits of them. eventually all of these will be painted and im just at the sketch study phase. i figured id start with someone im already intimately familiar with, having spent half of my […]

i dont know quite how to start with this but im sure that many of you…ok mom maybe youre the only one reading this….actually i dont figure, i know that you wonder if i still even draw or if im just making stuff up about being a cartoonist for the paper in brooklyn (really im […]