Category: General

Defending the Honorable Art of Cartooning on WBEZ’s Sound Opinions

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 …

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The (Not So) Secret Origin of Queequeg

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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Portrait Night 6/28 (Ambrose Burnside)

Tonight’s #PortraitNight subject is Union Army general Ambrose Burnside. If I get flack for being from the South and drawing a Union officer, I’ll edit with Photoshop and add “stink lines.” If you’d like to suggest a #PortraitNight subject, you can do so either via the comments section here, or via my Twitter.

M is for Mandarin Duck

“M” is a pretty rich letter animal-wise. I went with the mandarin duck mainly because of my love of the children’s book The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks. It’s for sure a lot of fun to re-read books from my own childhood (George and Martha, Tomi Ungerer’s stuff, Sendak, etc.) with my daughter, but I …

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Playing With Watercolors

(Sorry about the bland title; I’d considered titling this post “Catch the Water in your Magic Paintbox,” which is a line from the totally hilarious psychedelic rock song “Rainy Day Sun” by Spın̈al Tap, but that song’s off their second record and I don’t think anyone other than me actually bought it.) Anyway… Here’s the …

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