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This blog is full of illustrated fiction set in Kekionga and featuring the same cast of characters you find in the comics. Click on "Kekionga FICTION!" above to find a table of contents and links to all the stories.looking for something? just type and click:
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Tag Archives: dogs
still here, and i have doodles
It made me rather sad this morning to check back in here and see how long it has been since my last post. All I can say about it is the last half of the first part of this crisis … Continue reading
Posted in all about this blog, comics and cartooning, Kekionga news
Tagged dogs, doodle, drawing, personal blathering on, webcomics
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a rover from mars
There are rovers on Mars (and on the dark side of the Moon), but we have a rover from Mars active in our backyard. At least we call him the Martian … he’s officially all grown up now, and very, … Continue reading
the martian toy camera
Sometimes a lens can give you more than a field of view– it can give you a change in perspective. So can a change in your work process– you could try automatic writing, or automatic drawing. Or automatic photography? One … Continue reading
Posted in art and culture, photography, writing
Tagged around the neighborhood, dogs, photography, the creative process, writing
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spam spam spam, etc.
No, not unwanted mass emails or phone calls. Real actual SPAM. Shiny foil wrapped SPAM, in fact. But wait, you may ask– doesn’t SPAM come in a can? In fact, isn’t SPAM famous for coming in a can? Yes it … Continue reading
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Tagged dogs, food and cooking, history and culture, photography, writing
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i have not been mentioning the weather (until now)
So far this spring, I have been pretty much alone in the circle of North American internet media producers in not mentioning the weather even once that I remember. But we have been having some weather here– not as much … Continue reading
Posted in art and culture, photography, writing
Tagged dogs, photography, poetry, writing
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winter sports in your own backyard
Hum the theme loudly as you look at these images– the Winter Olympics have begun!
Posted in art and culture, photography
Tagged animals, dogs, history and culture, photography
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best of the drawing of the day: bench
Back in September, I did a warm up to Inktober where I drew a drawing every day that had a piece of furniture in it. “Bench” is one of my favorites. The figure’s face, the inking style, and the big … Continue reading
question of the day!
This beautiful little watercolor by Beatrix Potter, an illustration for her story “The Tale of the Pie and the Patty Pan”, raises a question worthy of deep consideration, particularly for small dogs and those of us who have the souls … Continue reading
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Tagged art, dogs, essay, writers and artists, writing
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a minicomic for a holiday weekend / dire corgi in a mirror
Our neighborhood had its collective garage sale extravaganza today, and that got me thinking about the minicomic I made a while ago about a garage sale in Kekionga. So let’s celebrate the holiday long weekend with the reading of a … Continue reading
domestic haiku
Sleeping off a cold, while the dogs in the kitchen are shredding a dishcloth. (I thought about adding an illustration, but the remains, spread out across an unswept kitchen floor, were not photogenic. Unlike the perpetrators, but I don’t want … Continue reading
a cartoonist in Kekionga 