Comments on: Drawings in a Hurry, with Amy Jean Porter: Away We Go In Airports

By: Honest Engine

Honest Engine — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:49:48 +0000

Actually, I think an airport is exactly the kind of place that could drive people (men only, in this case, I suppose) to the kind of existential despair that might make them consider the priesthood.

By: Bittersweet

Bittersweet — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:55:35 +0000

Great post, Amy. Love the drawings, as always. And I never realized how pervasive the smell of leaf mold is in New England until I go somewhere else and miss it.

By: Shivery.McPickles

Shivery.McPickles — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:44:02 +0000

This has really brightened what already promises to be a fairly dismal day. I'm going to try to see the rest of it in nicely textured, funny drawings.

By: HiredGoons

HiredGoons — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:28:29 +0000

Also, my uncle lives in Phoenix – 'robust and healthy' is putting it mildly.

By: HiredGoons

HiredGoons — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:13:30 +0000

This is the second Cinnabon reference in a week or so – product placement, Choire? Perhaps a bit of familial nepotism?

By: carpetblogger

carpetblogger — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:34:41 +0000

I haven't been there in years, but I remember the shades of tan and the carpet.

Other than airports in post-soviet shitholes, Sky Harbor is the only one I can think of that actually reflects something true about the atmosphere of place it serves. But in a good way.

By: KarenUhOh

KarenUhOh — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:37:11 +0000

Go to Sky Harbor all the time. I'm sorry, but I like PHX.

Could I commission a drawing of that byplane hanging in the rocky escalator lobby?

By: Natasha Vargas-Cooper

Natasha Vargas-Cooper — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:29:45 +0000

Cinabon needs to buy some advertising space on the Awl.

Are these drawings done with colored pencil? It's pretty incredible how well the texture translates through, you know, THE WEB.

By: petejayhawk

petejayhawk — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:53:31 +0000

I've not been to Sky Harbor International in years but I recognized the carpet straightaway, even before reading the caption. That really is a brown airport, isn't it?

By: ProfessorBen

ProfessorBen — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:21:56 +0000

Me too! It's fun!

By: Abe Sauer

Abe Sauer — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:10:25 +0000

I continue to have nothing but love for this feature.

By: formerly it takes a lot etc.

formerly it takes a lot etc. — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:04:06 +0000

Could you put out North American Mammals as a children's book? Please, please?