Strange Branches

Birdy Bubbles

Monkey Sound?

is the sound a monkey makes.

Web Sketch

this is just some sketching i'm doing to plan some web updates. I want to ask my friend Nate to lend me his flash file that has some gorgeous firefly like things on it to put in the background.

Boy Girl Girl Boy

and as a bonus, a tiny caterpillar

And finally a wee box, with a detail

On a more personal note

I always have money problems and also can obsess about my weight (Boooooooo!) so I doodled this.

Waiter Spilling Wine on my Paper...

and a mouse that ate the cheese that felt it...what? yeah i can't explain what I doodle sometimes...

May I introduce to you...

The very distinguished AND hungry caterpillar

Angry Blob

I am going to put this guy into flash and make an animated type of thing with it.

Hydra-3 Head Style

Double-breasted Gentlemen

Back

I'm posting some fun stuff later. Sketches and older drawings are totally awesome and you will love them.

Almost Finished Product-Groundhog Old-Fashioned Brawl

Meeting Doodles-Triptych Part 3

This is me doing some silly writing/cursive. Cursive is so hard for me now. It feels too deliberate and looks childish since I haven't practiced writing anything but my own name in cursive in years.
Also, I just saw the most hideous invitation font ever. **shudders** truly horrible.

Meeting Doodles-Triptych Part 2

This is from the top of the legal sized spreadsheet. I started drawing boxes, then turned into question marks, then snakes, then a snake in a box...Full circle or just a weird U-Turn?
I'll try to scan this in better...

Meeting Doodles-Triptych Part 1

This one is a bear head (smiling of course) shooting out of a cannon. I don't know why I drew that...maybe I drew it to improve efficiency in Technical Services.

Groundhog Fight Club

An underground and rarely captured happening

On-Demand Bar Sketch of Friend's Dog

Front Kitten View

(she's much bigger now...)

Sketch of Kitten Action

is it a matter of time?

depression: it is like cancer? where you know it's there, doing its thing and you try and try again to beat it back. sometimes in remission. sometimes in pain. hiding in the body.

Quiet Moment Style--Fish Pond @ NU

My Phone, If it Came Alive and Demanded More Energy...

Over a Year? Kitten Gear!

Another meeting doodle...I do not advocate the use of kitten heads as gears. That is all.

I can see it all now...

Update 2.0 Meeting Doodles style

Sometimes I draw an extremely friendly line that I'd like to meet. This guy is so cool.

Update on Meeting Doodles!

Abstracts of an already fairly abstract character. Vicious Cycle a.k.a. Vic

The Onion Says It All

I couldn't help myself from posting this because it really gets the issue spot on.

Bush: 'History Cannot Judge Me If I End It Soon'

Now Hanging in Boston

My stuff isn't technically hanging, but it's on easles, so close enough.
Now showing through September 28th, 2006
More Info


Untitled-Ink on Paper (11x14)

Time Consuming Site

Judged by time spent in temporary cute paralysis-TSITCPsu (standard units)
THIS is the one site that eats a disproportionately large percentage of my page viewing...
I mean, c'mon...I'm totally helpless

Where the Wonkette Lives

Been wondering what happened to your fave dirty dirty politics girl? Well, the old wonkette site might blow heartily enough to fill one of those impossible to inflate balloon animal balloons, but wonkette herself (Ana Marie Cox) is blogging on her own while she does her book selling stuff.
I'm sure her books will be brilliant as she is, but if you need your fix real bad check it:
The Real Wonkette Blog
Update:
She's now blogging for MSM with TIME Magazine. I think she's allowed to be Maureen Dowd naughty, but not Wonkette honest. Judge for yourself. She's still awesome though.
Ana Marie Cox on TIME

MoMA didn't raise no fool

Check out the new exhibition at MoMA if you can. I'm not really a fan of CGI, but this stuff is good if soul-less...
PIXAR

Appointment

Today I'm going to the doctor (my fave). So I'm downlaoding some tunes to get me there in style. I'll leave these anatomically correct Grandma and Grandpa dolls here for you to cuddle with.

Confession #1

I want to go to art school.
There--I said it.

Buttertwitch

Cutest thing on the internet
http://animal.discovery.com/cams/pandavidr.html

straight up Panda-Cam all panda all the time
Tai Shan, or Butterstick as wonketteers know it, is adorable doing just about anything. For instance, a second ago, it just took a breath. AWWWWWWW!

Doodles from another source

Guest doodles?
Not really, as this person isn't my guest, but merely a linked-to acquaintance doodler (thanks screenhead.com!)
The link is to a graphically depicted children's book in german that shows where babies come from. I think the answer, at the end of this presentation, to the query "Any questions?" would be a resounding "No!"

(can't get this to work as a link...copy and paste it...i'm feelin' lazy suckas)
http://www.planetdan.net/pics/babies/

Doctors are Okay I Guess

Went to see mine today and was feeling less than great about it. I always feel like I should be able to heal myself, but I think that is asking a bit much of myself.
My doctor is great so now I'm afraid she'll go somewhere else and I'll have to pick someone else out of the giant "provider handbook"
I've recorded some ideas on my new mp3 player that M gave me. One of them is that the main character in my novel/graphic novel keeps getting these terrible headaches and at some point they'll find this giant Prozac tumor in her brain. Like a ball of all of the unprocessed meds her body balled up and is keeping in her brain like so many nuts squirrelled away in a tree.
I can't decide it she'll have it out or not.
If she does get it removed, it'll be in a back-door manner, like at midnite from a neuro-surgeon she holds at gunpoint.
Now that's my kinda doctorin'!

Cartoon Art Museum

The goings on of Cartoon Art Museum in San Fran...
Fan-fucking-tastic place to go if you ever can

Saturday, October 22, 1pm -3pm

The Cartoon Art Museum's Saturday Afternoon Cartooning Classes for kids
will continue once a month throughout the fall and winter. Our next
classes are scheduled for October 22nd and November 19th from 1pm-3pm,
and will be taught by local cartoonist and animator Brian Kolm.


The attendance fee for each student is $5, which covers the student's
admission to the Cartoon Art Museum and the cost of art supplies.
Students will learn a wide variety of skills throughout these classes,
from character design to storyboarding to creating their own
mini-comics. These classes are recommended for students from 6-14 years
old. Classes are filled first-come first served, advance reservations
are recommended, contact ext. 314 or galllery@cartoonart.org
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Thursday, October 27, 7pm-9pm

From the darkest depths of the cartoon vaults comes the Cartoon Art
Museum's latest exhibition, Gross, Gruesome and Gothic. Enjoy gourmet
food courtesy of our festive sponsors. There will be spooky cookies (An
Occasional Cookie), chilling sushi (Blowfish), rib-tickling barbeque
(Memphis Minnie's), dastardly evil nibbles (Fringale), frightful fruits
and cheeses (Rainbow Grocery) and captivating liquid refreshment (IZZE).

Guests will receive bloodcurdling door prizes courtesy of Things From
Another World and the Warner Bros. film Tim Burton's The Corpse Bride,
and special prizes will be awarded to those attending in costume.

The horrifying display features over 60 original cartoons from a
spooktacular selection of artists and comics including Edward Gorey,
Charles Addams, Basil Wolverton and Charles Schulz.
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Saturday, October 29, 1pm-3pm

The Cartoon Art Museum is pleased to host Dutch cartoonist Erik Kriek on
October 29 from 1pm to 3pm as part of its ongoing
Cartoonist-in-Residence program. Museum visitors will have a chance to
watch Kriek at work and chat with him about cartooning. Please visit
www.gutsmancomics.com to learn more about Mr. Kriek and his work.
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Wednesday, November 2, 6pm-8pm


Special Presentation featuring French Authors and Illustrators Emile
Bravo and Olivier Balez

The Cartoon Art Museum in association with the Cultural Services of the
French Embassy in San Francisco and Foto-Grafix Bookstore is proud to
host the third annual presentation of French artists.

This event is free and open to the public. Their presentation will be in
French, with English translation. Books will be available for purchase
and signing. Space is limited; please contact Summerlea Kashar at
415-227-8666, ext. 300 to reserve a seat.

Emile Bravo and Olivier Balez are inventive authors and illustrators who
search out interdisciplinary projects and collaboration. Bravo and
Balez’s prestigious sponsored visit to San Francisco allows the two
famed European illustrators to expose their work in the USA. Their visit
also allows fans to meet, greet and direct questions!
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Please call 415 CAR-TOON or visit http://www.cartoonart.org for more
information on these and other upcoming events.

No Doodles Today

I'll post some later...haven't been able to run to the scanner lately--stupid work
I would die for a handheld portable scanner that isn't a business card scanner

Cubicles

My coworker is now collecting the Cubicles from Archie McPhee and I can't decide how to feel about them.

Are they legitimizing the barren existence I live everyday?
Are they making fun of the barren existence I live everyday?
Are they just really boring Playmobil figurines?

Jumpers

A video from Sleater-Kinney
You'll feel oh so meta if you watch this in your cube
Jumpers

How To Get There

Here's a link to the organization's website that has maps, hours, and other information
www.caosonline.com

Will You Be There?

This turkey platter will be there...will you be there?

Will You Be There?

This bony torso will be there...will you be there?

Won't you come?

The anatomically correct Grandma and Grandpa dolls will be there..will you?

Open Studios-Back of Postcard 

Full Head-Empty Page

 

Open Studios-Open Head

I'm freaking about open studios this weekend. I feel like my fellow artists hate me, but I know that is stupid. I hate low self esteem...
Anyways, I've been doing some great stuff and now have to get that onto paper which is I guess the process of doing art. Making things speak for you or of you at least. I wasn't good at expressing myself through music.
I'm posting stuff later today that are actual drawings so bear with me **rowr**
Cheers all who read, and Cheers to me for posting
:>)

Problem & Solution 

4 panel-Inner Violence 

R U Cool?

Do U use letterz 4 wordz and replace 's' with 'z' any time you can?
Then chek out these keerazy animalz!!!
I wuz LOTFLMAO!!!
insta-cool mascots
um, the long and short of it is...you add sunglasses to anything to make it "cool"
tomorrow, I'll be doing experiments as to how many things i can cool-ize using only a pair of sunglasses.

Funny Prez Stuff

President Cops 1 & 2
Stars "the greatest american president" and "the worst american president" as mismatched cop partners.
I bet the dub wished he coulda slapped some cuffs on ol' Katrina

Day Job Stuff

How to Be Creative and Keep a Day Job
courtesy of creativity-portal.com via lifehacker.com

Katrina Ramble

I've seen the coverage and what sticks with me most are the words being spoken by some very elite people.

• Barbara Bush is saying how nice it is for the poor people to be evacuated from their homes as they are being treated so nicely now in the 'Domes. ASSHOLE!!!
• The FEMA director Brown, was saying how the victims needed to take responsibility for themselves now--a classic blame the victim game.
• Dennis Hastert says we should just bulldoze all of New Orleans.
• Even now Bush Jr. is relying on his PARENTS to help him out. I hear a lot of things that basically sound like this, "Don't talk bad about my son." You know, it really puts my mind at ease to know that the POTUS still isn't off of his mother's teat--and I bet she doesn't even support public breastfeeding initiatives.

Hey poor people in LA, Eat the Rich!!! They are very fatty and tasty.

Success

This is an excerpt from Heather Havrilesky interviewing Alan Ball on his work in general and Six Feet Under in particular.
This quote got me, as Alan Ball is an amazing writer with a beautiful portfolio of work and yet he sounds like me who is a struggling and insecure writer/artist who has almost no portfolio...(italic emphasis is mine)
H.H.:
Sounds like you're secure with yourself as a writer, to be taking on new mediums.
Alan Ball:
There are times when I think, "Oh my god, I'm a horrible writer, this is just all some horrible mistake that happened, it's all going to become so blindingly clear." But you can't let your insecurities rule you. And also, I get bored doing the same thing over and over. I mean, I'd be lying if I said there weren't times during the run of "Six Feet Under" where I was just bored, but then that's true of my life as well, at some times, so I don't know how you can avoid that.

In a Mood, My Magic Logic Loop

Why do I get in a mood so easily? All it took was listening to like 1 minute of news (they're building a new jail for girls!--don't even get me started on how they could spend the money keeping people OUT OF JAIL) and then talking about work.
I can't take the absurdity of things sometimes. This is when studying logic does not come in handy. Gee guess what? The world isn't logical, people aren't logical, but hell, you know what? I'm trained to find logic when I see it...
I'll let you know when that happens...

My Working Proof of my Promo Card for CAOS event 

Moody Entertainment

I know I shouldn't even watch these as I am too introspective and sensitive, but damn they are both good.
First one is a video by the band/group Smog. I've listened to them on Boston's WERS 88.9 FM, but didn't think I'd ever see a video. Really beautiful, and almost makes you like newscasters again...
Smog-Mother of the World
watch

Second one is the video for the song that ended Six Feet Under. It is a good song, but the video has a great format. Could be a good commercial for Polaroid.
Sia-Breathe Me
watch

God as Artist-Funny and Beautiful

intelligent design, violent temper

Not a False Start This Time...3rd time is a charm

The first page is done, I think it looks great. The title of the little vignette is "Day After Day". So that'll be about 11 pages about setting up the depression, the habits, the people and situations that make for the oppressing days of working. I will work in some foreshadowing of the storyline in brief glimpses of the violent tendencies I imagine.
My new thing is that my violent imagination ends up becoming a violent reality somehow [of course I mean in the novel, okay?]--this might change, but it stems from my love of all things Tabloid, cheap, dirty, ugly, horrible 99cent store type of life in the city. Violence is agiven in any city. I feel like the only way you can change it is by making the violence more equitable in that it doesn't just stem from and attack the poor neighbourhoods. It should jump out and get richies too. Not that I hate rich people, I just resent them and at the same time want to be so comfortable that I don't have to think about these horrible things that I do.
But I figure that if I were rich, then I'd have these bad thoughts still and would eventually act on them or something. My faltering moral compass would end up going totally haywire over the strong magnetic pull of money.

Title of the Graphic Novel

Okay, it is called "Guns of the Day Job"
I hope no one thinks it is about workplace violence
Its about my own violent imagination that I have never shown to people...
It is expressed through my love of all things graphically violent.
p.s. I also love graphic sex, but I never mix the two and the violence pops up in my mind more
keep tuned, I'll post the title page by next week.

The Laughing Lady from SanFran Arcade History Place

new post

More Goings on @ the Cartoon Museum-SanFran, CA

1. Saturday, August 13th from 1pm to 3pmThe Unbearable Lightness of Bean: Reception and Book-signing2. Saturday Afternoon Cartooning Classes for kids will be held on August13th, August 27th from 1-3pm3. Sunday, August 14th, 11:30am to 4pm is Garfield Family Fun Day w/ theSPCA (This is our final Family Fun Day for the Garfield exhibit)
1. Saturday, August 13th from 1pm to 3pmThe Unbearable Lightness of Bean: Reception and Book-signingTo celebrate the publication of Terrabella Smoot and the Unsung Monstersand the opening of Jon "Bean" Hastings's Small Press Spotlight, theCartoon Art Museum is hosting a book signing. This event is theofficial kick off for the West Coast leg of Jon's Smootarama! booksigning tour. For more information about Jon Hastings, please visithttp://www.KiwiBean.com.
2. Saturday Afternoon Cartooning Classes for kids will be held on August13th, August 27th from 1-3pmClasses are held two to three times each month. The attendance fee foreach student is $5, which covers the student's admission to the CartoonArt Museum and the cost of art supplies. Students will learn a widevariety of skills throughout these classes, from character design tostoryboarding to creating their own mini-comics. These classes arerecommended for students from 6-14 years old.Classes are filled first-come first served, advance reservations arerecommended, contact ext. 314 or gallery@cartoonart.org.
3. Sunday, August 14th, 11:30am to 4pm isGarfield Family Fun Day w/ the SPCAJoin the Museum and the San Francisco SPCA for our final fun-filled dayof festivities and creative activities including, a kitten adoption
face painting, watching Garfield cartoons and Garfield-themed snacks andtreats. While visiting your favorite cartoon feline, see the newesteditions to the SPCA at their kitten adoption station in front of themuseum. This event is sponsored in part by Paws, Inc
station, coloring activities, writing your own Garfield comic strips,face painting, watching Garfield cartoons and Garfield-themed snacks andtreats. While visiting your favorite cartoon feline, see the newesteditions to the SPCA at their kitten adoption station in front of themuseum. This event is sponsored in part by Paws, Inc.

I want to kill a clone of myself

I wouldn't be committing suicide and it would be MY clone...
Also, it could be a registered organ donor so that I wouldn't have to be
and I would name it Cloney
Sometimes you just want to kill yourself, but don't really want to and I think this would be the perfect solution
Also, I could cut its hair and dress it

Angry Tree, Dissolving Sun 

Duh-Dang

It's been a while...but I threw a doodle up here via photoshop today. Just had to get something out. Open Studios are coming up and I'm behind on my production of zines/magnets/actual art. What else is new? Breaking my own deadlines is why I like being the boss.