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Entries from May 2019

Proverb (7)

May 28th, 2019 · 2 Comments

A five-part round, setting a French proverb on the danger of eating eggs.

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Tags: *Music · P

More Musical Instruments

May 22nd, 2019 · 2 Comments

I’m currently collecting my cartoons of imaginary musical instruments, which appeared in the PDF magazine Le Scat Noir, into a book. I also drew some new ones. Here are a few.  

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Tags: *Cartoons · *Music · M

Index Cards (89)

May 12th, 2019 · 2 Comments

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Tags: *Index Cards

Cryptogram 1

May 6th, 2019 · 2 Comments

A musical cryptogram is written like a substitution cipher, by assigning another pitch to each pitch. The result has the same rhythm and repetitions as the original, but with different pitches. I chose the minuet from Bach’s third French Suite because I like it, and because it uses all twelve pitches. Here’s the first page.

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Tags: *Music · C

The Book of Weirdo

May 1st, 2019 · 2 Comments

Jon B. Cooke’s Book of Weirdo, an encyclopedic history of R. Crumb’s sorely-missed humor magazine, is now out from Last Gasp. It includes reminiscences from most of the artists, as well as photos from the time they contributed. A cartoon of mine was published in the 13th issue, so I’m in there with everyone else. […]

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Tags: *Cartoons · B