I've been sketching with my Bamboo ditigal tablet and have gotten two of the characters for my webcomic sketched.

I know you're excited.

I know you're worried that I'm gonna put Marmaduke outta business.  Or maybe Family Circus.

BE BORN, SQUIGGLES!   BE BORN, FEDORA!


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"I am progressing along the path of my life in my ordinary, contentedly fallen and godless condition, absored in a merry meeting with my friends for the morrow or a bit of work that tickles my vanity today, a holiday or a new book, when suddenly a stab of abdominal pain that threatens serious disease, or a headline in the newspapers that threatens ( Read more... )

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Christmas Challenge:  Post one thought about Christmas -- good or bad -- every day until Santa  comes.

The Whitings Decorate!!! Yay!  P.S.  I made the wreaths (well, put the pretty stuff in the greenery, it was just leaves before they met me) and put up the lights with the Geoffers.  It was mucho more fun than studying for finals.


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Christmas Challenge: Post one thought about Christmas -- good or bad -- every day until Santa comes.

The wishlist. It's funny because when you're a little kid you always want something crazy but it's always the stuff you want the most that ends up being too hard to get. I always wanted the giant stuffed animal I could sit in. Like this:

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The great speech we read in our British Public Address class, by King Edwin of England in January , 627 A.D.:

Our lives are brief.  We come out of the night and pass into the unknown.  Our existence is like the swift flight of a sparrow which for a moment flew through the room.  As we sat at supper around a warm fire, this little bird came through ( Read more... )