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Category Archives: comics and cartooning
on friendly sharks
Over the last few troubling years I have been finding a weird kind of comfort in the company of the Friendly Shark. It probably started with the Friendly Shark characters in other peoples’ comics, and with my own giant IKEA … Continue reading
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Tagged drawing, drawing of the day, essay, sharks, writing
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this animal is thinking about …
Do you ever wonder what the Mysterious Animal (or is it a Horrible Creature?) is thinking about in one of these sketchbook drawings? Hint: it is probably not going to advance the implied plot too much. Also, it is not … Continue reading
hulk poem september. also poetry hulk picture.
Hulk poem September. (Not Hulk-ku. Sorry. Hulk make many kind poems.) Light all gold. Spider web. Cottonwood leaf already fall. Hulk find chocolate Easter egg Way back in cupboard. Best September. Also, here picture Hulk. PB draw just today. Borrow … Continue reading
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mr. rock and the delicate blown glass unicorn
I have been drawing werewolves all week for a Halloween comic, but I took some time this afternoon to finish and color a Mr. Rock cartoon that I inked a while ago. Unlike many of the Mr. Rocks I’ve posted … Continue reading
mr rock in sketchbook world
No one was more surprised than I was to discover that Mr. Rock was my first character who pretty much demands to appear in color. The others don’t mind it, but Mr. Rock doesn’t feel like himself without his turquoise … Continue reading
the long awaited return of mr. rock!
I did not plan for this to happen. For the last three weeks World Headquarters has been all about Health Care- all kinds of Health Care for multiple members of the household. None of it was Covid related, which is … Continue reading
minicomics live: crisis … and resolution
The last two pages of Mission Equinox are finally penciled. You’ve got some space opera action, including some sci-fi upside downness, some corny montage, some sleeping stegosaurus. Yes, I know stegosauruses almost certainly slept standing up, like a rhinoceros, an … Continue reading
minicomics live: giant space worm
Minicomics Live continues. This is the page with the giant space worm on it. I really, really like the giant space worm. Also, we need a page number and an engine nacelle on the falling Shoebox Spacecraft. Also, also, so … Continue reading
minicomics live: box lunch
The Admiral eats her box lunch, and Mr. Rock is nosy about it. Hope that private log really is private, or else that the Admiral is tolerant of scientific curiosity. And yes, a dinosaur’s box lunch has “dinosaur food” written … Continue reading
a cartoonist in Kekionga 