I hope it rains all day

You know the pakwan is gonna be good when you're aspirating the juice on the second bite.

1982

My Mom mailed me a box the other day, and this was inside. When I was in high school, I made this ceramic mohawk punk paperweight for my Dad.

Portrait of The Artist as a Young Doog

I'm almost done watercoloring this Nixon story, just a bit more color, then fill in the black areas.

Shirley, You Can't be Serious?

A guy named Nixon calls out the National Guard to subdue a group of people protesting an injustice.
It can't end well

Nixon Noxin Dioxin Toxin

I'd hoped to have this finished in time for the 40th anniversary of Nixon's resignation, but these cartoons always take longer than you expect, especially since I decided to color them. Meanwhile, my 80 year old Betty Boop broke her elbow and shoulder, so I'll be spending the next week taking care of her. So, here you go, the entire Nixon story in unfinished drawings.

I grew up in Massachusetts, and Massachusetts was the only state in the 1972 election that Nixon did not carry. Being called "Nixon" in Massachusetts was indeed a slur, even before the Watergate business.
Anyways, we can laugh about it now. When I finally finish putting the eyebrow on this comic, I'll make some high res scans and throw it on the Gumroad page as a pay what you want download. Maybe I'll make greyscale hardcopies, maybe not.

UPDATE: Greetings to the visitors from Crooks and Liars (Many Thanks, Tengrain!) Feel free to leave a comment, don't be shy!

Razzleberry Jam

Page 3 of Whiffle Street, unfinished watercolor.

Meadowlark Lemon dunking over Jelly Belly Biafra

The first couple of pages of Whiffle Street as unfinished watercolors.

Whiffle Street

Page one of a work in progress. It's all written out and lettered, and the images are roughed out in pencil. I'm trying to crank out the inking and have it done by Sunday.

The Magic Whistle

In the letters section of Peter Bagge's Hate #12, 1993, Sam Henderson makes a suggestion.

Snake Eggs

Sketchbook Saturday

Just some old doodles.

Don Martin

From the collection, "Burning MAD" a MAD Magazine paperback from 1975.

Josh Alan Friedman and Drew Friedman

These panels are originally from Raw #1, The Graphix Magazine of Postponed Suicides. My copy is from the Read Yourself Raw compilation from 1987. You really owe it to yourself to seek out this comic by the Friedman duo, as it is arguably the most blistering satire on race relations in America.

From the collection

Crumb's Despair from Last gasp, 1983. I changed it a little to fit the times...

Freedoom

Welcome Crooks and Liars readers (thanks Batocchio!) These are a couple of pages (I added the top image to the post for a little continuity) from my graphic novel The Boy With The Spyrograph Eyes.

Siily Rabbit, Matrix is for Kids

The Altcomix comic challenge

The Wild Party

"Several years after falling in love with the poem, I met William Burroughs. The conversation didn't catch fire until, somehow, I asked if he'd ever heard of The Wild Party. Burroughs had first read the book in 1938, when he was a graduate student at Harvard. He hadn't seen it in over thirty years. "The Wild Party?" he mused."...It's the book that made me want to be a writer." His eyes unfocused and he began to recite, in a twanging drawl:
"Queenie was a blond, and her age stood still,
And she danced twice a day in vaudeville."
He went on for awhile, as if he could conjure up the whole poem from memory, all the way to the abrupt last lines:
"The door swung open and the cops rushed in."

Art Spiegelman from the introduction to his illustrated edition of Joseph Moncure March's The Wild Party

That's My Momma

That's My Momma

#FOODPORN

Meghan Turbitt's wonderfully nutty comic book, #FOODPORN, came in the mail today.

As a retired veteran of the restaurant business, I can say with some authority that the scenes depicted in this comic book happen all the time, but usually in the walk-in or dry goods stock room, not in the main dining area.
Also, wonderful job on the centerfold, and "Please pass the ketchup, I think it's going to rain!"

Irene

One of the joys of selling comic books: the extra cash can be used to buy other cartoonists comic books. Irene is an anthology of alternative comics, good stuff!

Of Mice and Magic

Some scans from Leonard Maltin's Of Mice And Magic; A History of American Animated Cartoons. I bought this book about 35 years ago, it is one of my prize possessions.

GW Duncanson

I bought a copy of Extraordinary Mezzanine by GW Duncanson, a comic book of surrealistic watercolor paintings, pop cultural/cartoon images mashed up with high art. I love this book. It's like you're walking through a museum, and a portrait of a stern Lucy Van Pelt is juxtaposed with a portrait of Frida Kahlo while a man with a chainsaw runs past a lonely Air Jordan in the middle of the room.

Chicago Alternative Comics Expo

Zippy The Pinhead

Some panels from Zippy #3, 1980, Bill Griffith's E Pluribus Pinhead

Anders Nilsen and Kyle Beachy

I picked up a copy of MAKE Literary Magazine Fall 2013 Issue #14 at The Mission Creek Festival last month, and It has a 4 page story by Kyle Beachy with artwork by Anders Nilsen.