"Too many words..."

...he said, acknowledging respectfully his critics' most familiar complaint.
Here are some Lance Tooks press clippings from over the years, most unseen before on the web, beginning with an image from American Cinematographer Magazine, 1989... an animated Chex commercial fully painted in the style of Norman Rockwell...

New York Newsday, 1997 and the 20th anniversary of Star Wars commemorated with Tooks illustrations on bottles of Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and Mountain Dew...

New York's Amsterdam News, 2003 and a few words about the Doubleday/Random House graphic novel NARCISSA...


Black Ink, Doubleday's retailer mag devoted to African American fiction, 2002...


A typical rave from the Comics Journal, 2003...

Ideal, Spain... 2004 and the Spanish language edition of NARCISSA...

A word about the 2006 "Sistuhs on Narcissa" roundtable discussion @ the Chicago Black Age of Comics Convention (The next one's in October 2008, and I'll be at the 2009 convention)

Last year at the Madrid Salon de Comics, noted in the newspaper ABC...

Thanks to all for helping spread the word about my work!
Lance Tooks