mostly banal

ameetingoftheminds,i'mcertain

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:49:43 GMT

as seen at the yellowlight.

And thank you for reading.

letspretendthatthelikenessisdevastating

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:48:22 GMT

as seen at the yellowlight.

I've settled on a name to group these strips under:
Undisciplined.

Actually I settled on it a long time ago, but now I've committed to it. There

iampreparedtoloseyou

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:46:17 GMT

as seen at the yellowlight.

Is it funny? Is it even supposed to be funny?
Who knows? I just follow my whims on these things.
At any rate, it's true.

lesimagesdelatrahison

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:48:06 GMT

as seen at the yellowlight.

You know, I should just quit after this one. As far as conceptual, formalist gags go, I'm never gonna be able to do any better than that.

Apologies to René Magritte.

Apologies to Scott McCloud, and to Tim Hall too, for that matter.
Apologies to David Lasky, and to Derik Badman.
Apologies to Emil Kópen ("So many cartoonists are afraid of words"). But I'm just being cute there. I mean Apologies to Dylan Horrocks, of course.

And Apologies to Alexander Danner, and Mark Danielewski, and Kenneth Koch (and Austin Kleon, just as well), and Jacob Lyon Goddard, and DRAW, and Saul Steinberg, and Mark Lombardi, and a million other cartoonists, poets, writers.

It's so simple, but it's got a lot of history behind it.

Apologies to you. And to you. And to everybody.
Everybody, everywhere. Apologies. Apologies.

It is a comic.

ifalltopieces

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:51:59 GMT

Ah, what the hell. It's only six hours early.

as seen at the yellowlight(eventually).

In the end he gets recycled. Like all gags.

justanotherclotheshorse

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:47:28 GMT

as seen at the yellowlight.

I fully expect these comic strips to continue to be the arbiter of men's fashion.

twoforno

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:47:35 GMT

as seen at the yellowlight.

Two comics in a row, riffing on the same theme but following almost opposite tracks.
Why, that could be called a duality in itself.
Appearing back-to-back like this, it's almost as if it were planned that way!

(it wasn't)

But, hey! Do you remember these guys?

justoneduality,please

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:58:18 GMT

as seen at the yellowlight.

This gag is either too subtle.

ohiamsosoclevertoday

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:33:25 GMT

as seen at the yellowlight.

This cartoon is a sight gag.
Get it? Sight gag?

Get it?

(rim shot)

This comic won't go up at the site until tomorrow morning, but I'm posting it here now 'cause I'm pretty sure nobody cares anyway.

withbroadcomedicappeal

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:46:45 GMT

as seen at the yellowlight.

When I was a boy, my big brother held on to my hand and he made me slap my own face. I looked up to him, and still do. He was trying to teach me something. Now I know what he meant.

He was giving me the idea for this strip.

dinnerdate

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:45:02 GMT

as seen at the yellowlight.

truestories

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:27:05 GMT

as seen at the yellowlight.

you'veseenittoo

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:45:17 GMT

as seen at the yellowlight.

lowbrow+rerun(already?)

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:39:42 GMT

as seen at the yellowlight.

politicalcartoon

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:39:13 GMT

as seen at the yellowlight.

andnoneofyourbusinessanyway

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:40:26 GMT

as seen at the yellowlight.

whatsinthepipe?

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:13:27 GMT

as seen at the yellowlight.

big angry

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:12:36 GMT

Another in a series. If you remember the first one of this set, I'll email you something like a dollar.

there be dragons

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:35:59 GMT

wait... does this spoil the ending for you?

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:33:57 GMT

Sorry about breaking your feed, here.

Announced today. Maybe you'd be interested to know that I've been awarded a grant from the Xeric Foundation to help me publish my comic strip, !
Pretty exciting news, for me. I join some good company in the current batch of recipients, as well as the former recipients (who include some of my favorite cartoonists)
I don't have many details just yet. I've got my printer lined up, and yes, it will be printed as one long strip (somewhere around 35 feet long) and look something like this:

(one of the mock ups I made as part of my Xeric application)

I'll have more details, of course, as I get closer to solicitation.

Anyway, I've taken down the archive I kept up as I was posting the rough draft here. It'll be back soon enough, but all re-drawn and stuff. Up top of this post is my original sketch of the story, which took about 45 minutes to draw and defined probably the next following two years of my comics making life.

Congrats to the other Xeric recipients. I'm looking forward to your books.
Special thanks to Alexander Danner who nudged me to apply for the grant in the first place.

And thank you guys for reading.

old stuff

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:01:57 GMT

Remember me?

Haven't been real post-y of late, huh? Been pretty busy, but nothing I can show here yet.
I'm gonna try to get back in the swing of posting things, starting with some older stuff.
If you've been with me a while you may remember this one. A short story I drew, written by "Calamity" Jon Morris for one of his planned BOO! Halloween collections a couple years back. Jon's no longer displaying it at his webspace so I put it up over at my site. Thought I'd share it here too.

When Flies Were Big:

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a brief lesson

Sun, 24 May 2009 15:21:23 GMT

If you look at this picture in the horizontal alignment, it's just a reg'lar old merman swimming along.

But if you turn it 90 degrees clockwise he takes on more of a topless trannie merman with a flair for the dramatic kind of vibe.

Context is everything.

do not be afraid of bad drawings

Mon, 18 May 2009 21:18:46 GMT

Another in my series of geometric breakdowns. Getting closer to what I want out of these...

It's good advice. Something I'm trying to take to heart.
Tico is our younger dog.

I've been playing with my kids' crayons lately. I've got an idea I'm toying with... a comic in this color scheme. Something abstract. Part of the the growing diaspora, I guess...

But I'll end this post with something more representational:

projections

Wed, 06 May 2009 21:03:55 GMT

Boy am I bad at this blogging thing lately.

I'm about halfway through redrawing my ! story. I'd hoped to be further along by now.
I've set a deadline to finish the whole thing by June 10th. I can do it but I've still got a lot of work ahead of me. Keeps me busy.
And I'm waaaay behind where I'd hoped to be on Uncertainty, too...
I'll get back to posting comics here someday.

But, hey! I built a wall this weekend!
The second-floor stairwell used to just open right into Sophie's bedroom. We had gates and everything, but her or Jamon falling down the stairs was always a concern. Chris helped me to build the barrier and to move around some of the electrical stuff. Now it looks like a real room up there. When you ignore all the still bare wall board.

Oh, yeah... plus I also fixed our flickering livingroom lamp!

Who needs comics when you can hear all that exciting stuff?

*sigh*

Here's another in an intermittent series of non-comic sketches. Not Quite Geometric.

titled

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:01:33 GMT

Hey! Remember when I used to draw stuff and post it here?

*sigh*

I haven't gotten to the inking stage in any of my bigger projects so I decided to take some time and work up these gags a little. Other than this it's been all Uncertainty and !...

You know who does finish things on a regular basis?
boxbrown.
(how's that for a smooth segue?)

Boxbrown writes comics with a warmth and earnestness that's rare and appealing. His regular gig, a kind of slice-of-life gag strip called Bellen, is one of my favorite ongoing comic. Examining relationships is his thing (Bellen = Ben+Ellen, his two main characters) and he does it well, with honesty and humor and always a terrifically humbling sense of humanity.
Boxbrown's also just published a book of some longer form comics, done in a similar vein. Check out his Love is a Peculiar Type of Thing, self published and subsidized by a Xeric grant.
I wholly endorse this book.

Look at that! A sort of comic and a little write up of someone else's work! Not too shabby for a guy who barely posts anything anymore.
Now, to keep from appearing too competent,