Bike

Bikes are funny. There's a weird alchemy of human being and machine. An intimacy of involvement that's very unique among modes of transportation. They're a tool, a vehicle with all the mechanical complexity that entails. But they're a vehicle with a human motor. A biological, beating heart, if you will. There's a lot of romance in the combination. You become part of the machine as much as the machine is an extension of you.
That intimacy, that lack of remove inherent in most other machines, is key to the pleasure of riding. It's not just the sum of the parts, but what those parts can let us do. That's where there's poetry.

I made this comic as part of a photo-a-day challenge I'm participating in this month. The tire is off my kids bike, the drawings from my pocket sketchbook. I don't have a bicycle anymore. I wish I did.

30 Days of Comics: Days Twenty Three through Twenty Six

Four Day mega post, cuz I'm lazy.



Day 23. I don't actually care that much for talking in circles...



Day 24.



Day 25, which is a thing that actually happened.



Day 26. Yep.

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30 Days of Comics: Day Twenty Two

Thirty Days of Comics, day twenty two. Did I ever have faith to begin with?

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30 Days of Comics: Day Twenty One

I should have drawn panels on the ducks journal page in panel 2.

Day 21, only a week behind in posting these now!

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30 Days of Comics: Day Twenty

Ten to go in two more days.

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30 Days of Comics: Day Nineteen

I got a little behind on posting these. I was away from a scanner for a while, so now I'm playing catch up. Here's day 19.

Around this time I started thinking of these strips terms of parts to a whole rather than individual statements. That is to say, my approach shifted from thinking of this as a daily challenge, to thinking of this as a project. I started to think about how each strip I drew this month would fit together with the others, and how they would play off of each other in the end.

Not that I'd been really successful at making individual statements with each strip previous, but at this point I sort of stopped caring.


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30 Days of Comics: Day Eighteen

On the seventeenth of this month Rosalie Lightning, the very young daughter of cartoonists Tom Hart and Leela Corman, passed away unexpectedly in her sleep. The shocking and heartbreaking news has passed through the comics community this weekend.

Tom and Leela have touched so many, not only through their work but through their commitment to the community through support and education of other cartoonists. Recently the family moved cross-country - from New York to Florida - to start a new cartooning school, The Sequential Art Workshop.

Personally: Tom was the very first person to contact me, with kind words of appreciation, at the inception of this website. To have an established cartoonist of Tom's stature (as well as a cartoonist whose work I already admired) contact me, unsolicited, with such words of support... well, it meant a lot to me.

My heart goes out to Tom and Leela at this unimaginably difficult time for them. No parent should have to go through what they're going through right now. Cartoonist Lauren Weinstein has set up an emergency memorial fund to help them with whatever they need in their time of grief. Please consider donating.

Today's comics were drawn by my own children, Sophie (6 years old) and Jamon (4).
I love them very much and I feel so lucky to have them both.


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30 Days of Comics: Day Seventeen

You ever have that feeling, you just know you kind of have things figured out?
What's that like?

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30 Days of Comics: Day Sixteen

Sixteen days in. Just over half way through.
I'm in one of those moods.

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30 Days of Comics: Day Fifteen

Too many late nights.

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30 Days of Comics: Day Fourteen

Day fourteen. Almost half way.

This one is a riff off of days 12 & 13 and also a collaboration with my son.
I've done comics with Sophie before, but I think this is my first jam with Jamon. I think he did a great job!

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