okay, this is going to be a long entry, but it should be kind of interesting for some people. there's a surprise payoff in here, somewhere towards the bottom ( Read more... )

this will be my last transmission from periscope depth -- until i show up at lax on friday, it'll be silent running from here on out. i feel like i need to extend this submarine metaphor further, 'cause it's so awesome. um... i guess selling my last furniture could be likened to being attacked by a giant squid ( Read more... )

since i'm bogged down with moving chores, i haven't had much time to work on the comic. i did get a chance to do a little coloring on page 13, though. it's nowhere near finished, blah blah blah. anyway, i get antsy if i don't post something new on my website every once in a while, so the page-in progress is behind the cut:

( ignore the stuff that's not colored in yet )

a few days ago, my father and i were talking on the phone and we ended up on the topic of the band he formed in the sixties. my mom and dad met while studying at a music conservatory in kansas city, and after getting married they decided to move to los angeles to make it big as rock stars. i've heard both of them refer to this period as a time of ( Read more... )

it is now exactly 14 days, 5 hours, and 57 minutes until i get aboard that last train to los angeles, and things are both hectic and sad, in equal measure. hectic kinda goes without saying -- lugging boxes to the post office, trying to sell my stuff, and going to lots and lots of goodbye dinners/lunches/pub outings. everything is suddenly colored ( Read more... )

i have just discovered, to my dismay, that "three amigos" is generally considered to be a bad film. i had always taken for granted that it was one of the greatest films ever ( Read more... )

here's a big character flaw of mine: i cannot abide extreme talent or success in anyone other than myself, regardless of their field of expertise. deep down, i want to be better than everybody else at everything. which is unfortunate, because by and large i am worse than everybody else at everything ( Read more... )

stuff i'd like to own, money being no object (with helpful, yet incomplete, illustration):


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i just read the blog of someone who is turning thirty and taking stock. he made a list of the things he had accomplished, and darn, he sure has accomplished a lot (formed a hit rock band, wrote a novel, got engaged, and lots of other stuff). my initial impulse was to kick myself over the drastic contrast between his life and mine, but instead i' ( Read more... )

i don't know if any of you other artists go through this, but whenever i resume drawing after a long delay, i worry that i may have forgotten how to draw. when i put pencil to paper, there's always a fear that the well will have run dry and the bucket will come up empty ( Read more... )