It’s been seven years this month since I moved here (the number “seven” seems to be a magic number in life; Seven Days of Creation, Seven Seals of Revelation, Seven Days of the Week, Seven Deadly Sins, The Seven Samurai, The Seven Year Itch…).
I was leafing through some of my old sketchbooks from my first weeks and thought it might be fun to share some of these doodles. These were my first impressions as an expat (with my own, er, anthropomorphic spin, of course). I offer these few pages as light entertainment and as an insight to a novice American In Paris… without the Gershwin score as background filler.
P.S. Some of these characters are still here at the same cafe…
…with the same cup of coffee.
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Doug
Cushman is a former Redding artist and author who now lives and works in Paris. He was born in Springfield,Ohio,and moved to Connecticut with his family at the age of 15. In high school he created comic books lampooning his teachers, selling them to his classmates for a nickel apiece. Since 1978, he has illustrated and/or written more than 100 books for children and collected a number of honors, including a Reuben Award for Book Illustration from the National Cartoonists Society, New York Times Children’s Books Best Sellers, and the New York Public Library’s Best 100 Books of 2000. He enjoys hiking, kayaking and cooking (and eating!). Learn more at his website, doug-cushman.com
