March 2005 archive

Project: Adodo pt. 2

I received an email update from Luca, one of the editors of the upcoming Italian literary magazine Adodo, to which I contributed a piece of artwork. Here’s what he had to say: “Adodo is in Italian, and contains mostly literature, but we cared a lot about the visuals. There’s a story from James Kochalka, titled …

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Crackhouse: odds and ends

The demolition work in the soon-to-be studio/workroom upstairs has resulted in a thin layer of sooty dust throughout most of the house. An interesting side effect of this has been that the dust gets on the cat’s paws as he roams around the house and leaves little cat paw prints showing places that he’s visited. …

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Comics Crime Watch: Albuquerque, N.M.

Thought Balloons: Comics Crime Watch: Albuquerque, N.M. I wonder if, before the bust, this store saw a dramatic increase in sales of Gilbert Shelton, Robert Crumb and Jim Woodring comics?

Leisure Town

Leisure Town Yay! Leasure Town is back online. Maybe this will mean that some new strips aren’t too far off…

Quality art instruction II

I sent my friend James Sturm the “how to draw hobos” page below and inquired as to whether the cartooning school he’s founded in Vermont, the Center for Cartoon Studies, would be addressing the topic of how to draw hobos. He replied that the school will have “several classes dedicated to the hobo,” and included …

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