Here’s a drawing I did today for an upcoming project I’m working on with Chris Reilly and Steve Ahlquist. The story’s called Goggles and Gloves and this is a possible version of the main character, Raymond:

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Yes, the pose is blatently stolen from…uh, I mean, “is a respectful homage to,” one of my all-time favorite cartoonists, E.C. Segar.

Independent Forecast: Then & Now

Here’s a curious bit of press for Strange Eggs. While generally positive, I’m forced to conclude that they’re reviewing an ad for the book in “Previews” magazine, rather than a preview copy of the book itself. At any rate, the presence of cartoonist Derf in the anthology seemed to sell the book to at least one of the reviewers here.

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I’m slowly beginning work on another book of tall tales—sort of a follow up to my last book Farewell, Georgia. This one’s going to be all stuff from North Carolina, and will be mainly stories that I’ve been told personally, rather than being made up of “researched” folk tales from books. I also want to break the book up a bit and include some one and two page stories and diagrams, in addition to longer more narrative pieces. Here’s a one-pager I did last week to get the ball rolling:

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I’m not sure when the ETA is for getting this book done, especially since I have a few other comics-things in the hopper, but I’m just going to do pages here and there ’till I’ve got a whole book—that’s what I did last time…