I'm Tommy Siegel. I play guitar and sing in the indie-rock punk band Narc Twain and the pop band Jukebox the Ghost. When I'm in the van on tour, my way of avoiding falling into a mind-numbing, iPhone-induced stupor is taking doodle requests via Twitter. People will request something like "Newt Gingrich riding an ostrich" and I'll doodle it, take a photo and tweet it out.
The cartoons aren't what you might call "good,” but their creation has become a really fun back-and-forth with strangers on social media. After doing this for a few years, it spiraled into a compilation book titled Van Doodles: Drawings by Request on Tour. I'm sure I'll end up doing a Van Doodles 2: Revenge of Van Doodles at some point in my pseudo-career as an amateur cartoonist.
Next up, however, I’ve been asked to take over the Talkhouse Instagram and take requests from you, the readers, on Saturday, November, 21. To make a request, tweet to @narctwain or @tommysiegel and I’ll try my best to draw your suggestion (assuming it's not filthy. A little filthy is OK. But not too filthy. This is a family website). All doodles will be posted to the Talkhouse Instagram.
To get us started, the editors of the Talkhouse requested that I do a doodle of “a record that changed you.” Here it is.
This is one of the first albums I ever bought, and it deeply affected my perception of Fugazi. It’s one of their poppiest releases.
Now, what do you want me to draw?
