Jul 08 2011
And when I say “fantasy” I don’t mean “chicks in chain-mail being rescued from dragons”– I mean fantasy as in “fantasy football.” Here’s the background for this post: a while back, cartoonist Scott Chantler (of the excellent recent graphic novel, Two Generals, among other things) put out a call on Twitter asking other cartoonists what …
Jul 05 2011
Tonight’s #PortraitNight subject is Black Flag front-man and Professional Angry Guy Henry Rollins. I’ve actually been thinking a lot about ol’ Hank these days since I’m reading Our Band Could be Your Life. It’s easy to razz Rollins for is often over-the-top anger/bitterness, but he’s a pretty smart guy and some of the things he …
Jul 04 2011
You can follow the other “N” entries as people post them to Twitter this morning by following the #AnimalAlphabet hashtag. To see all the entries so far, check out the Animal Alphabet Tumblr: http://animalalphabet.tumblr.com. N is for Narwhal The original art for this is for sale here.
Jul 03 2011
Hey, I’m on this week’s Sound Opinions, defending the honorable art of cartooning! I love the podcast and listen every week, so it was really fun to have them pick my phoned-in comments to run on the air. Last week they made some offhand remark along the lines of “if your songs can’t make the …
Jul 02 2011
Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is one of my absolute favorite novels and I’m definitely not the only cartoonist with an affinity for it. Most famously among us “indie” types is probably Jeff Smith’s homage to Moby Dick in his series Bone. In it, Moby Dick is the favorite book of one of the characters, Fone …
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