Sleeping Dogs

Some dogs visited the office where I work. Patty commissioned me to draw them.

Here's a sketch of Waldo....






And here's Kiko.
(Waldo in background)

Damselfly

Here is a damselfly that I found hanging around my kitchen, a while ago.

(It's alive, by the way)
























On less pleasing news…. This is the state that my apartment has reached, concerning rats.

(Click on the screenshots below, if the Craigslist posting has expired.)

Cousin Collaboration Comics

I have added a few updates to my website, including a handful of daily cartoons and oddball cartoons; the albatross graphic and other things from blog entries; and miscellaneous touch ups.

And now . . . a collaboration-doodle-comic thing with cousins! (click for larger view)

Also a doodle-jam page from the Boston Comics Roundtable. Available in two orientations for easy viewing.

Doodlers include Lindsey, James, Dan and me. (In the corner, some brush marker test scrawl left by Gareth)

The Bucket of Dead Rats is GONE!

My apologies for anyone who doesn't know the backstory.... but I just wanted to say, I came back from Atlanta and I saw that the bucket of dead rats next to my apartment is GONE! FINALLY! Gone Gone Gone!

(No, I don't know where it went to. I'm assuming a human finally disposed of it. But maybe the heat catalyzed the decomposing bucket, causing it to sprout mutant legs and waddle off to quietly terrorize another apartment.)

But at any rate, the bucket of dead rats is not in the parking lot anymore, which is all that matters for the moment. I should declare this week a holiday.

I should also move out from this sublet soon, before the bucket decides to come back.

Albatross Process

My cousin asked me to create a graphic for his new business, "Albatross Process".

(click here for Albatross Process website and the final logo Alan created.)

Given the nature of the business and the choice of animal as a symbol . . . . rather cheerful logo on the website, isn't it? It's a deliberate entrepreneurial decision by Alan and his partner, to stand out from the other New York City legal processing services. They had several clients in their first week of business, so it seems to be working.

*****

Also -- yesterday was my birthday, huzzah!

Million Year Picnic and Jam Comics

Million Year Picnic now carries my mini-comics! They are located in Harvard square:

Million Year Picnic

99 Mt. Auburn Street (Downstairs)

Cambridge, MA 02138

They are a store, by the way. And... possibly a suggestion. I've been there many times before, and their comics range from thoroughly mainstream to completely local -- from Wonderwoman to Jeff Smith to Asterix to Manga to a shelf full of locally made comics and zines. It's like whoever stocked the Boston Public Library's indie/adult graphic novel section did so by grabbing armfuls of books from Million Year Picnic's indie shelves. (The same person also dragged all the authors to MoCCA.)

Since I finally got around to printing some of my comics for MoCCA, I was able to stop by Million Year Picnic with mini-comics. Million Year was really nice and very cool -- they bought a handful of my mini's on the spot, and paid me!

Hub Comics in Union square also sounds very indie friendly and supportive of local mini's, so I plan to stop by there too, eventually. (New England Comics hosts local comics too, but by consignment. )

Also, here is a 'Jam Comic' from New York MoCCA festival.

For reference: that weekend in NYC was wrechedly humid and hot. Also, the top floor of MoCCA, where we were, had no air conditioning. So on Saturday, me and a bunch of comics creators were all eating at a Chinese restaurant. Ron drew the title and the first panel on a sketchbook, passed it around, and voila.

Jaime wrote "The ink on my comics evaporated!" caption and I illustrated it. I can pinpoint Dan M's, Spike's, and Cathy's panels, but I'm not as sure about the others.

(Click on image for larger view)

For good measure, here's another jam comic.
(Can you spot which panel, that I drew a picture for and Lindsey added words?)

A Visit to the Zoo and Harbor

Some sketches and watercolor paintings from a visit to the zoo! And from the harbor where I work.