iampreparedtoloseyou

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.

howaboutacreepyhalloweencartoontoday?

as seen at the yellowlight.

Happy Halloween, everybody! Halloween is for creepy things, right?

In not so creepy news (and let me assure you, this is completely unrelated to this cartoon) today is the tenth anniversary of me getting married to my wife. And also vice versa. Happy anniversary, Rachelle! I love you in a completely socially appropriate manner!

lesimagesdelatrahison

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

as seen at the yellowlight.

In the end he gets recycled. Like all gags.

justanotherclotheshorse

as seen at the yellowlight.

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

twoforno

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

as seen at the yellowlight.

This gag is either too subtle.

ohiamsosoclevertoday

as seen at the yellowlight.

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

Get it?

(rim shot)

withbroadcomedicappeal

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

as seen at the yellowlight.

This comic kind of calls to mind something you'd see in the New Yorker, if the New Yorker ran comics with severed heads.
I drew this for a "real people" profile on me in the company newsletter at work. Apparently I am a real person and they felt it important to make note of that fact.

truestories

as seen at the yellowlight.

you'veseenittoo

as seen at the yellowlight.

lowbrow+rerun(already?)

as seen at the yellowlight.

politicalcartoon

as seen at the yellowlight.

andnoneofyourbusinessanyway

as seen at the yellowlight.

whatsinthepipe?

as seen at the yellowlight.

big angry

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

there be dragons

wait... does this spoil the ending?

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 comics

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: