Paging Pon Carlo

Popo's drawing last summer (11 yrs. old?)

Ain't Gonna Work On Maggie's Farm No More

I hate the way she makes us mop the blood off the floor....

Ten Years On: Iraq Bleeds On, Pakistan Bleeds Anew

The Boy With The Spirograph Eyes

I started reading Death and The Penguin by Andrey Kurkov a few days ago, about a guy in Russia writing obituaries. And then The Obituary Man came across my dashboard. I get a chuckle out of small connections between something I’m doing and something I see or hear, because they happen to me all the time.



Here are some other examples of the co-incidents. While drawing a picture of a Dr. John 8-Track tape and listening to the radio, the DJ played a 10 second snippet of Dr John playing Professor Longhair’s “Big Chief” as a bumper. The radio show I was listening to wasn’t playing any of that type of music, but there it was as a 10 second flash.



I picked up a copy of The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living, not knowing anything about it, never heard of it before, just bought it because of the cover. Postage stamps figure into the plot, and at one point the main character, Evers, mentions the Elvis Stamp, and that just makes me laugh, because the Elvis Stamps are a main feature of the plot in my next comic book, working title; “John Jacob Dingleberry Schlitz”. The Elvis Stamps get contaminated with LSD.





So, I’m drawing the characters, Tom and Junior, Starting to ink them, they're tripping their brains out while cooking at the restaurant, and they’re singing songs and fixing food (page 47, page 56), and I’m thinking, I should name the comic book “The Boy With The Spirograph Eyes” instead of "John Jacob Dingleberry Schlitz". And then, here comes the pictures of the Higgs Boson thing, and Oh My God Particle, it looks like a Spirograph!



”John Jacob Dingleberry Schlitz” will now be known as “The Boy With The Spirograph Eyes”.

The Iowa Secret Conviviality Society

Taking a break from Inking, thinking about making some bread dough. The Iowa Secret Conviviality Society is having The Reverend Bart Yates over for the the monthly meeting.

Here's a skeleton of a page in progress, half inked with some pencil roughs.





True story, cockroaches bury their dead.

Flood Pants

A ballpoint pen sketch for a comic book cover, "Flood Pants", a story about growing up in the 1970s and having to wear ill fitting plaid bell bottom hand-me-downs. Add this story to the queue.

It's Hard Out Here For a Pope

Blow your horn.

Hip Hop Blues

The legendary late 80s Boston band, Who Be Dat?

R.I.P. Nate, this one's for you brother.

10 Years Drawing The Grill Rats

I started drawing The Grill Rats 10 years ago. These strips are in the first collection, from 2008.

The Meatman's Mardi Gras Marathons

A page from The Last of The Decal Liquors

The Big Bad Bald Bastard runs down the voodoo on Iko Iko.

Frank Zappa for Pope

Even The President of The United States Must Sometimes Have To Stand Naked

It's Alright Ma (I'm only Bleeding)


John McCain Time For Action Figures Tour. Should we put an "r" at the end of Tempe, Arizona


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Zencomix

The Asphalt Zamboni Driver

Open The Door, Richard!

A couple more pages from the next comic book, "The Boy With The Spirograph Eyes". The original Joe, the one this character is based on, would indeed transition from mangled Tom Petty lyrics to Count Basie/Dusty Fletcher/Louis Jordan without changing key or skipping a beat.

Blogroll Amnesty Day

Steal this cartoon for your own Blogroll Amnesty Day posting.

The Vagabond Scholar, Skippy The Bush Kangaroo and Mock, Paper, Scissors run down the voodoo on Blogroll Amnesty Day. These folks have always been generous with their linkage to me and to many others. Thanks a bunch!

BDR, also generous with the linkage.

Elizabitchez

Crow Falls Down

Carl Zeller

Lynda Barry on Tumblr!

I Hate Illinois Nazis

A few years ago, the Grill Rats story line had G. Gordon Liddy and John Bolton, under the direction of John Poindexter, manufacturing meth on a farm in Iowa, with the money generated from the sale of the drugs going towards illegal covert operations.

Oh, that crazy Zencomix, so over the top, going Godwin us, suggesting that Republicans have Nazi sympathies! Ha! Told Ya so! (hat tip to Tengrain)

Old Doodle

John Jacob Dingleberry Shlitz

I haven't quite finished putting the eyebrows on these pages, but I thought I'd do a "work in progress" post. Here's page 4 of the book.

Here's page 35.

I'm about 30% done, hopefully finishing it up by the end up April.

"They Say You Can Make It If You Try"

Otis Rush---Double Trouble

I lay awake at night, can't sleep, just so troubled
It's hard to keep a job, laid off and havin' double trouble
Hey, they say you can make it if you try
Yes, in this generation of millionaires,
it's hard for me to keep decent clothes to wear

You laughed at me walkin' baby, when I had no place to go,
Bad luck and trouble have taken me, I have got no money to show,
Hey, hey, to make it you've got to try, baby, that's no lie,
Yes, in this generation of millionaires,
it's hard for me to keep decent clothes to wear