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The Mischievous Elf

June 20th, 2013 · 2 Comments

He’s very mischievous!

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June 12th, 2013 · 3 Comments

This wordless, action-packed, incoherent drama follows several characters as they chase one another around.  Here’s the first page.

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Walter & Danny Start Out to Go to the Beach, But Instead — No, Wait, I Don’t Want to Give Away the Plot

May 28th, 2013 · 2 Comments

“Walter & Danny Start Out to Go to the Beach, But Instead — No, Wait, I Don’t Want to Give Away the Plot” was one of my first cartoon slideshows, first unveiled in 1985 or thereabouts.  It has since been refurbished.  Danny became Benny in later adventures in publications edited by Danny Hellman, so that […]

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Elitist

May 23rd, 2013 · 2 Comments

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Missing Persons Deck

May 2nd, 2013 · 2 Comments

In 1996, listener-sponsored radio station WFMU issued a set of playing cards as a premium for subscribers.  The theme was “Missing Persons,” and each card illustrated someone who had disappeared.  I was assigned the clubs, and drew each from the viewpoint of the person who vanished.  The ace and face cards were drawn by other […]

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Captain Cap, Volume 2

April 1st, 2013 · Comments Off on Captain Cap, Volume 2

Today is April 1, a day sanctified by the extraordinary French humorist Alphonse Allais; and I am happy to announce that it brings the release of Captain Cap, Volume 2. Allais’s stories of his absurd anti-hero, first published in 1902, have been meticulously translated and illustrated by Doug Skinner, in the second volume of a […]

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Tags: *Cartoons · *Words · C

Black Scat Review 2

March 19th, 2013 · Comments Off on Black Scat Review 2

The second issue of Black Scat Review contains one of my series “Shorten the Classics.”  Not this one, another.  Black Scat Review is available from Black Scat Books.

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Captain Cap Buttons

February 6th, 2013 · Comments Off on Captain Cap Buttons

These pinbacks are given to the first twelve who purchase Captain Cap, Volume 1.  I based the button on the only known photograph of Albert Caperon, the real Captain Cap.

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Captain Cap, Volume One

February 5th, 2013 · Comments Off on Captain Cap, Volume One

Alphonse Allais was a peerless French humorist, celebrated posthumously by the Surrealists for his elegant style and disturbing imagination.  Among other things, he wrote a series of wonderful stories about his friend Albert Caperon.  In Allais’s hands, “Captain Cap” became an adventurer and inventor, with a disdain for bureaucracy and a heroic thirst for cocktails.  […]

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The Moon Show

November 7th, 2012 · 1 Comment

Here I am performing my illustrated story, “Bimbo and Bombo,” at “The Moon Show” (Williamsburg, 11/5/12).

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