I realized I'm starting to draw certain types that are versions of one character or another, sort of like an ongoing subconscious casting call. A drawn out (ha ha) process of designing the protagonists. It started with a drawing of two kids, and they've been evolving into some shape. I like the way the "dark-haired kid" looks...
2020-10-27 22:09:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Paul Yellovich and I recorded a 13th episode of our horror movie podcast.
We discussed the Friday The 13th franchise and the 6-hour Crystal Lake Memories documentary (which we both enjoyed a lot more than any of the actual movies).
Neither of us is a Friday the 13th fan, but for some reason -- I don't think ...
2020-10-26 23:46:13 +0000 UTC View Post
It still talks.
And it still cries.
2020-10-26 03:15:37 +0000 UTC View Post
The "loathing" part in the title is an exaggeration for comedic purposes. I like myself more often than I don't these days. Life's a work in progress.
2020-10-25 11:42:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Eyes that have seen things. Or are seeing things.
It's possible to come out of the tunnel, and into the light, only to find another tunnel before you. Our path is a series of tunnels, the last one ends in unyielding darkness.
Is the darkness gathering around her the kind that reaches out, that feeds? O...
2020-10-24 22:20:29 +0000 UTC View Post
I have one writing job at the moment, for a project that will be posted online soon.
I'm not drawing it but I'm roughing out a storyboard with notes and some stabs at dummy dialog written along the sides of the page. I send these to my editor, if they're okayed then I type up a bare-bones script to lock in which c...
2020-10-24 07:52:35 +0000 UTC View Post
There's a place for us
A time and a place for us
Hold my hand and we're half way there
Hold my hand and I'll take you there
Somehow
Someday
Somewhere
2020-10-24 01:34:59 +0000 UTC View Post
This panel has been sitting for a long time. I would take it out and kibbitz with it, get annoyed and consider tossing it, but then rework it and put it back into the box to repeat the routine a day or two later. I played with this one more than any of the batch, for good and bad. It looked better in an earlier version, as a ...
2020-10-20 01:50:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Dissolution. But at what point in the nightmare?
I don't think this turn of events is enough to balance out whatever else has been happening. But it may provide some relief for some individual or individuals who've found themselves in a tight spot.
Temporary relief, most likely.
I'd a...
2020-10-20 00:43:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, folks. Sorry I've been away, didn't plan to take a break from the October Experiment posts, but the past week was a busy one between taxes, dental work, the Head Sounds Block party, a lot of errands and a family birthday. I slept through most of Sunday like I'd returned home from a four-day convention and not a one-day e...
2020-10-19 23:57:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I don't show these to my therapist.
2020-10-16 02:18:20 +0000 UTC View Post
What's the opposite of pixie dust?
And is it a symptom, or a cause?
Squeaking this one in with midnight looming a few minutes from now...long day running errands here and Brooklyn, filing taxes with the accountant, post office, pharmacy, library drop, bags and boards from the comic shop for mailings (and a n...
2020-10-15 04:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post
This fellow seems to have had a bad day. Probably the end for him, whoever he is.
2020-10-13 21:51:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, sort of. I mean, I jazzed it up a little. But it's sort of true. Kind of.
2020-10-13 12:13:33 +0000 UTC View Post
I'll let this one stand without comment.
2020-10-13 01:11:19 +0000 UTC View Post
My friend (and fellow Instant Pianist) Robbie Busch is one of the folks behind Head Sounds Records in Brooklyn, and he invited me to set up at their second block party taking place this Saturday, Oct 17th.
It's outdoors, everyone's wearing their masks and being sane and there's going to be live music and deejays besides...
2020-10-11 23:25:26 +0000 UTC View Post
This one's been sitting in the card box for a while because I couldn't bring myself to leave the background blank. But I've been overworking so many backgrounds and textures on so many of the index cards, that I decided what the heck. Let it go. Defeat the OCD. Vary up the approach. Post the friggin' thing. So, here's the guy...
2020-10-11 21:51:56 +0000 UTC View Post
We don't like what we see.
More and more each day.
There's more and more each day.
To see.
And not like.
Life has gotten in the way of work quite a bit these past few weeks, so several plans for the Patreon have been pushed around. I hope to address that asap.
As many of you know, I've been dealing with an extended first-world nightmare with our new used old car, which, after many hours and more money than hoped for, is at...
2020-10-10 02:19:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes I finish up a panel for the Experiment that's based on another panel, with the idea of eventually finding a story link between them. And sometimes the original panel is unfinished, so posting the completed panel doesn't reveal that link. This is one of those panels.
This is the 50th completed Experiment ...
2020-10-10 00:30:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes I draw a panel in stages. I quit after a while and put the card back in the box to work on later. I put this one back and took it out six or seven times. I usually juggle a batch that are like this one, add some lines to a few cards, put them back for another time, repeat until finished. Good for phone calls, bad mo...
2020-10-08 22:36:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Of all the unnatural things ambling around in these panels, this creature has made a bit of an an impression. He may turn out to be someone -- or something -- of importance in our slowly emerging story. Or he may be too strong a fit for the proceedings. One to watch for. Or watch out for.
2020-10-07 22:10:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Huh. There's a lot of characters -- or at least figures-- showing up in these panels, and I doubt they can all squeak into the story. Whatever it may turn out to be. Who knows? I do like drawing the weirdies.
I guess this is on the outskirts of the unnamed town where things have gone wrong. I guess. It all seems t...
2020-10-06 23:11:35 +0000 UTC View Post
So, I had a few extra naps yesterday as things caught up to me, and when I tried to post the daily October Experiment panel, Patreon was also taking a nap! Oh, ha ha. These days I don't get mad, I just go back to sleep, and figure it out when I get up. Or go back to sleep. I'm exaggerating. Zzzz...
So here's the belated...
2020-10-06 15:11:43 +0000 UTC View Post
A work in process. A stage in development. Formerly human, or becoming human? From what, to what? Something already in a panel, something to appear in a panel? Hmmm.
2020-10-05 01:48:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Drawing stuff for very kind and very patient people. More on the way.
2020-10-04 09:11:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Horror tropes. Something is not what it seems, someone is in peril. How does it fit into things? Who is the kid? Who is the...thing?
2020-10-03 23:08:12 +0000 UTC View Post
This one slipped through the cracks, at least I don't remember posting it, and I couldn't find it in an older post. If I overlooked it and it's a repost, let me know, I'll post a replacement for today's panel.
2020-10-03 00:39:38 +0000 UTC View Post
It only hurts when it hurts. First day I had this rash was awful. Antibiotics + walking to the garage to get the car + sweating under covid mask = burning red lizard face.
The Hideous Sun Demon pops up in my brain mentions a lot lately, but he's hard to draw and this is more disgusting.
Enjoy!
2020-10-02 12:06:40 +0000 UTC View PostI found this in a file of old unpublished (and generally unfinished) reviews, essays and notes intended for my old Live Journal site. This little chunk of cartoonist OCD is a wish list of comics-related reprints I wanted to see get published. I described these as mostly "pipe dreams", never dreaming there would someday be...
2020-10-02 07:05:43 +0000 UTC View Post
