Very much looking forward to the groundbreaking of The Seminal on FireDogLake. I’m Jonathan Guyer, by day a think-tanker and by mid-afternoon likely doodling in a sketchpad.

I’ll be covering foreign affairs from a cartoonist’s angle here at FDL. As I work at New America Foundation’s Middle East Task Force, all too often I end up drawing on news from the region, but expect plenty on the District as well.

My blog is Mideast by Midwest – needless to say, I’m a Hitchcock enthusiast whose orientation is caught between the fertile crescent and the Great Lake state. Originally from the suburbs of Detroit (off 10 Mile Road, if you dig Slim Shady), I finished up Brown University and showed up in the District last year.

To give you a taste of what I’ve been publishing – my latest drawings have been on the retro nature of last week’s headlines, Iran, Obama in Cairo, and the always cartoonogenic Kim Jung Il.

Stay tooned…