Archive for April, 2007

Goodbye Blue Monday
Thursday, April 12th, 2007

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
Kurt Vonnegut JR passed away yesterday.
Goodbye Kurt. Goodbye Kilgore Trout. Goodbye Malachi Constant, Howard W. Campbell JR, and Billy Pilgrim.
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Will work for selvage
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

While most folks spent Sunday evening squatting upon colorful easter eggs (that’s what people do, right?) I was hunched over a sewing machine hella tailoring pants at Self Edge’s first ever “Denim Shorts Party & Competition“.
It started at around 4:30pm. I set up my machine on an old oak office desk and started cutting up [...]

Jim Stensland, God’s Prophet
Monday, April 9th, 2007

I wrote the following story (and accompanying caricature) in 2001 for my zine Moebius Strip Tease. I’m printing it online for the first time. A quick google search turns up nothing useful about Jim now, if anyone has information I’d love to hear it.

Jim Stensland is god’s prophet, Christ’s cousin, a veteran of the civil [...]

Scrap life #5: Selvage Wallets
Friday, April 6th, 2007

It’s been a while since I’ve done a Scrap Life project, so I thought it was about time I shared a new one. The Scrap Life projects first started when I took some of the scrap leftover from my Love Life bag and made a wallet out of it, and this project is somewhat similar.
I [...]

the flatjack incident, roughs
Friday, April 6th, 2007

I’ve been working on a new comic that might or might not be finished in time for the Alternative Press Expo later this month.
A while ago I posted about a 24 hour comic I had started (you can read about it here). I didn’t finish the book that day, in fact I only finished 13 [...]

Hirschfeld at 99
Thursday, April 5th, 2007

Tom Richmond has posted a video of the well known caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. The video, apparently captured from a documentary about Al titled The Line King, shows a 99 year old Al Hirschfeld doing a caricature of Paul Newman. Some of you may know that Al continued cartooning up until of the day he passed [...]

Mor Def
Monday, April 2nd, 2007

It was the first day of The Mediocre Tour and we were chilling out in the lobby of a hospital somewhere in Oregon. Within a few hours of landing in Portland, Router’s ear infection had gotten so bad that she need ed to have it checked out. After a few hours of waiting around, Router [...]