This is Jonathan Lethem’s brother Blake, who does some illustration work for Jonathan’s books. I googled him this morning to find more of his art, and came across this article. With sentences like this: Admittedly, hip-hop heads in the iTunes Age don’t normally extend b-boys their rightful props, but trust that the O.G.s know about this cat. I admit to understanding very little of what is being said. BUT, this is pretty cool: In fact, Blake is the role model for the narrator of Jonathan’s award-winning 2003 novel Fortress of Solitude—“Parts of the book are pretty much verbatim from him,” Jonathan confirms.

This is Jonathan Lethem’s brother Blake, who does some illustration work for Jonathan’s books. I googled him this morning to find more of his art, and came across this article. With sentences like this:

Admittedly, hip-hop heads in the iTunes Age don’t normally extend b-boys their rightful props, but trust that the O.G.s know about this cat.

I admit to understanding very little of what is being said. BUT, this is pretty cool:

In fact, Blake is the role model for the narrator of Jonathan’s award-winning 2003 novel Fortress of Solitude—“Parts of the book are pretty much verbatim from him,” Jonathan confirms.