The Unknown Adjective has arrived! “Mr. Skinner knows many terrible, terrible secrets about us. We are once again fortunate that he chooses to share them so deftly and so altruistically.” —Mark Newgarden “Witty and ingenious comics from the exceptionally-talented writer, musician, performer, ventriloquist, and cartoonist Doug Skinner. It’s exciting to finally have these little-seen strips available […]
Entries Tagged as '*Cartoons'
The Unknown Adjective and Other Stories
July 2nd, 2014 · 3 Comments
Walter and Benny Protect Their Home
May 7th, 2014 · 4 Comments
Walter and Benny reason from false principles again, in this six page story.
Evelyn, Beverly, Carolyn, and Doris
March 10th, 2014 · 3 Comments
This is the beginning of a twelve page story. Will they ever get there?
A Poor But Honest Woodcutter
February 12th, 2014 · 6 Comments
This is the first page of four. It doesn’t end happily for the woodcutter.
Walter and Danny Stop for Lunch
October 29th, 2013 · 2 Comments
My occasional cartoon characters, Walter and Danny, break into riotous color in this page done for a show at the Mary Anthony Gallery in 1997. The original artwork perished in a flood in my studio, but a photocopy survives. Danny was renamed Benny when Danny Hellman published a couple of stories (in Legal Action Comics […]
Oulipo Pornobongo 2
September 16th, 2013 · 1 Comment
Oh boy! Oulipo Pornobongo 2 is now out, chockablock with smut and recreational linguistics. This one features work by Opal Louis Nations, Farewell Debut, D.S. Macpherson, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Giovanni Zuniga, Derek Pell, Roger Leatherwood, Eckhard Gerdes and others. I contribute a song, an acrostic about mating dachshunds, a translation of an 1885 story by Alphonse […]
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White Knuckle Sandwich (5)
August 28th, 2013 · 4 Comments
Jennifer Duffy and I collaborated on this drawing for a postcard, for our band White Knuckle Sandwich. I drew the astronauts (partially swiped from an old pulp cover), Saturn, the seltzer, and the uke; Jen supplied the rest, including the spirograph.
Show Biz
August 27th, 2013 · 5 Comments
Leaving Home
July 31st, 2013 · 2 Comments
My whilom cartoon character, Red Telephone, pursues an unsuccessful career.
The Unknown Adjective
June 26th, 2013 · 6 Comments
I’ve long been intrigued by the hapax legomenon, the word that appears only once. (See here for a musical version.) There is, as it happens, a hapax in the Pater Noster; I confected this cartoon essay about it (this is just the first page, mind you).