Portfolio — Damon Lehrer

Vera is about six. Or seven. Depending on if it's next month yet, when it's her birthday.

This is a famous painting of Vera.

Vera likes to look through Dad's books, she always wants to know what's happening.

Vera has been lots of places, in a way.

Vera's favorite sport is soccer

Zoot and Blister are Vera's cats. They need training. Their behavior is off the hook.

This is a page from my unfinished book Mute Swan

This is another page from Mute Swan

The big black swan is the white swan's son.

This is a page where Vera and Charlie worry about where their white swan has gone.

These are sketches for a page in Vera Drives a Truck. It's a silly book that imagines a little girl driving a big dump truck.

These are sketches for another page of Vera Drives a Truck.

Vera and her family (my family) 1939, a page from my ongoing memoir.

Drawing from my memoir; Vera helps me tell the story.

Page from my memoir.

This is a page from my memoir, the most recent one I've drawn. You can see I've included figures from Tintin books. I hope this is allowed, because it makes sense to me for this French town in the early 1940's. The word "streem" is misspelled; I keep meaning to go back and fix it.

This is the first page from my book Rocket Boy.

Page from my memoir

This is later in Rocket Boy, when the rocket has flown the coop.

Here, boy meets girl in an underground world of animals.

Here the boy is about to wake from his dream, and be subtly different.

Pen and ink drawing of seagull against night sky. This drawing is an illustration for a poem I wrote called "The Night Whir."

Pen and ink drawing of boy looking at a moonlit sea. I'm not a poet but I once thought I might be.

Pen and ink drawing of an old-fashioned car driving next to the ocean. This also goes with my poem "The Night Whir."

Pen and ink drawing of a boy's head on a pillow. I think I wrote the poem when I was in High School. I'm an insomniac, and the night is very alive for me.

Here is the introductory poem for my unfinished book Persian Marbles. This is a wordless book, in which two brothers suddenly find themselves in another world where they must save a crow from the captivity of an angry boy.