Red Telephone pops up again, in this strip from Another Room #9, 1980. He doesn’t seem happy.
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Red Telephone (3)
July 11th, 2011 · Comments Off on Red Telephone (3)
The Skinner Graduated Pictodisc
July 5th, 2011 · 2 Comments
Jason Little invited me to contribute to a show of machines by cartoonists, called “Comix Ex Machina,” at the Flux Gallery in June 2005. My device, “The Skinner Graduated Pictodisc,” set three hand-painted phenakistascopes spinning on record players at 33, 45, and 78 rpm. Here’s my working drawing. I installed the record players in plastic […]
Looking for Lake Monsters
July 5th, 2011 · Comments Off on Looking for Lake Monsters
“Looking for Lake Monsters” appeared occasionally in the INFO Journal.
Phenakistascope
July 4th, 2011 · 3 Comments
The phenakistascope was one of the earliest animation devices. The back of the wheel is black; the wheel is spun before a mirror as the viewer peers through the slots from behind. I’ve drawn a number of them. In this study, the early bird still can’t get that worm.
Red Telephone (2)
July 1st, 2011 · Comments Off on Red Telephone (2)
My occasional cartoon character Red Telephone tunes his uke, from the March 1980 issue of Ear. I signed it with his name, since I sympathized with his plight. And I redrew it a few years later, to make it crisper.
Walter & Benny Strike a Deal
June 29th, 2011 · 2 Comments
“Walter & Benny Strike a Deal” appeared in Legal Action Comics #2, an anthology edited and published by Danny Hellman in 2003 to raise funds for his continuing legal troubles with Ted Rall. Benny’s name was originally Danny, but I rechristened him so that readers wouldn’t think he was a puzzlingly inaccurate caricature of Hellman. […]
Red Telephone (1)
June 28th, 2011 · 2 Comments
This slice of life appeared in the sole issue of Carousel Comics and Stories in 2004.
The INFO Journal
June 21st, 2011 · 2 Comments
I drew Charles Fort for the cover of the 72nd issue of the INFO Journal, published by the International Fortean Organization. The drawing has also been reproduced on a tee-shirt, and a few other places. Whenever it’s reprinted, I add a few more scraps of paper.
Walter and Benny Hunt the Elusive Batworm
June 19th, 2011 · Comments Off on Walter and Benny Hunt the Elusive Batworm
That gentleman of the pen, Danny Hellman, published this comic strip in his anthology Typhon, in 2008. I originally drew it for performance, which is why the dialogue is not contained within the balloons. Here’s how it begins.
Art For Art’s Sake
June 16th, 2011 · Comments Off on Art For Art’s Sake
In 1977 and 1978, I drew a comic strip for a paper in Oakland, CA, The East Bay Review. It was called “Art For Art’s Sake,” and took a cast of anthropomorphic creatures through the Bay Area arts scene. It seems pretty jejune to me now, in my dotage, but the discipline of meeting deadlines […]