Back in January ESPN magazine contacted me to make several illustrations for a story they were repor
Back in January ESPN magazine contacted me to make several illustrations for a story they were reporting on about Cuban exile boxers. The images ended up not getting used, but I had a lot of fun with them as boxing is a hobby of mine and I also grew up in Miami which has a significant Cuban exile population. The story had a pretty ambivalent view on whether one particular boxer’s new found “success” in America was all that it had promised, and I tried to reflect it in this opener. I was also pretty excited to coin the nickname “Slamma from Havana”–no one calls him that but they should. -- source link
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