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Christopher Noxon paints and writes and prefers verbs over nouns.
He’s the author and illustrator of Good Trouble: Lessons from the Civil Rights Playbook, published by Abrams. In 2021, he illustrated the book “Can We Talk About Israel: A Guide for the Curious, Confused and Conflicted” by Daniel Sokatch, published by Bloomsbury.
His novel Plus One is a comic Hollywood story of a “domestic first responder” househusband and his breadwinning wife. His first book, Rejuvenile: Kickball, Cartoons, Cupcakes and the Reinvention of the American Grown Up was featured in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New York Times, CNN’s “In the Money,” NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” and Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report.”
As a journalist, he has contributed to The New Yorker, Details, The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, and Salon. His newspaper career included positions at the L.A. Daily News, the Cape Cod Publishing Company and the Los Angeles Independent Newspaper Group, where he won two first-place honors from the LA Press Club for feature and news reporting. As a freelancer, he covered the Democratic National Convention for Reuters; lived as a patient with recovering addicts for a Playboy feature about troubles with drug rehab; wrote about marketing and new media for Kurt Andersen and Michael Hirschorn’s Inside.com; and was the first journalist to report on actor Mel Gibson’s ties to an ultraconservative Catholic splinter group in a feature for The New York Times Magazine.
His illustrations have been featured in The New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, The Undo List, Modern Loss and the book Unscrolled: Writers and Artists Wrestle With The Torah.
Along the way, he has worked as a costumed character at Universal Studios, answered letters of complaint at L’Oreal cosmetics, and was director of communications for Michael Milken’s prostate cancer charity.
He writes and paints in Ojai, CA.
