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Month: July 2003

Whimsytoons and Other Projects

Whimsytoons and Other Projects

I’ve been working on a couple of commercial endeavors off and on between posts, commissions, troublemaking and belly-button picking, and while my projects are in no way complete I decided to unveil one of them anyway, since I’ve been getting a lot of inquiries about my artwork. That project is Whimsytoons.com. Whimsytoons is what H.E. and I came up with after half an hour of vicious name-calling. “You, looney toon!” “You, caricatoon!” “You, fancytoon!” “You, portraitoon!” I tried explaining to…

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Yanking Doodles #4: Buried in the Hard Drive

Yanking Doodles #4: Buried in the Hard Drive

I was just doing a little “housekeeping” on my hard drive and found the following image. Some of you might recognize the original pencil drawing from one of my older entries. I also found this one, based on another hand-drawn piece. Slurp! Share this post:

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

I don’t know how I manage to do it every time, but in the last three places I’ve lived, I’ve had the worst neighbors a soul could ever want. Two apartments ago, I lived above demonspawn. After that, well, I lived above demonspawn like I was Anne Frank. And now? I live across the street from demonspawn who reenact all the snap, crackle and pop of the Pearl Harbor attack every single evening since I’ve moved here. Please note: it’s…

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Southern California’s Own Special Weirdness

Southern California’s Own Special Weirdness

Yeah, so when Bill was at school in Northern California he would tell me about the strange people he met there—freaks, the lot of them, like guys who molested dogs and wore black cloaks, guys who followed Satan but preached to strangers like they were Hare Krishna. Bill swore that Northern California was unlike Southern California in almost every way possible, and I can agree to some point. For instance, the north tends to be more liberal in politics, while…

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