Over at Tweet Me Harder, my co-host Kris Straub and I have launched a new blog feature we’re calling Junk Me Harder. Inspired by a bit of conversation from TMH Episode 31, Junk Me Harder aims to examine, dissect, and review junk mail in a manner that’ll be familiar to readers of my (now-concluded) series The Comic Strip Doctor. Here’s… Read more...
Now Put A Bow On It
Continued from Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4
Although the printing is complete, and the room no longer smells like denatured alcohol & paint thinner (except for the splash I’ve added to… Read more...
Printing Pluperfect
Continued from Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3
With screens prepared and supplies obtained, it’s time to print! Each screen is inked (above), affixed to the GOCCO, and THE PRINTING BEGIIIIIINS… Read more...
Supplies & Demand
Continued from Part 1 / Part 2
What do you need to make 150 calendars made of 14 cards each? Why, 2100 blank cards, of course!
I’m fortunate to have a wonderful paper store right in my neighborhood –… Read more...
Writing (and more design)
Continued from Part 1
After composing each image, I like to print out each one to see how it looks on paper, then carry the papers around in my pockets for a while, scribbling on them whenever I come up with a scrap… Read more...
This will be a daily series this week, as my wife and I finish up production on the 2010 Wondermark Calendar! But first:
A BRIEF NOTE ABOUT BOOKS
TopatoCo was showing some of my books as “out of stock” as recently as yesterday, but I’ve received word that their coffers have been replenished — so, you know, have at. I should also note that they now… Read more...
This is a re-post, with photos newly added, of an essay I wrote a few years ago. It was originally published in the AOPA ePilot newsletter, March 2007.
My earliest memories are of pointing to the sky, having detected the far-off drone of a piston engine. Dad had been a pilot since before I was born. He flew a pea-green Cessna 172 from Rialto… Read more...
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The Comic Strip Doctor is done. Sadly, it’s not because my job is finished; newspaper comics today are largely as insipid as ever. For better or worse, though (pun intended), I don’t regularly read newspaper comics anymore, and as I told my CSD mailing list, digging through online… Read more...
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A Universal Press Syndicate interview with cartoonist Cathy Guisewite calls Cathy “the first widely syndicated humor strip by a female cartoonist.” The transparent qualifiers “widely syndicated” and “humor” are not mere press-release puffery; they are, in fact, quite deliberate, for without those qualifiers, the statement is… Read more...
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Shoe was in my hometown newspaper growing up, and I read it every day, just like I read Fred Basset and Herb & Jamaal and Marvin, and I don’t think I ever laughed at any of them, ever. But… Read more...
