My spam has been really boring lately – all lists of drugs and linkorrhea. I cannot illustrate these things. C’mon, jerks, be more funny when you’re leaving your little droppings on a person’s website.

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The artistic interpretation.

I’m working on a couple of short stories for the anthology my cartooning group is putting out this summer. I’m not saying much, but I will give you this hint:

Helpful, no? It’s a nice break from Furlough. I’ve never purposefully wrote one- or two-page stories before, and it’s making me concentrate more on being deliberate and slow. I’m drawing larger for the first time – the book will be 5.5×8.5, a la Furlough, but my layout is 8.25×12.75. Got that? I’m also drawing clean inks onto a sheet of Bristol, using a lightbox so that I can see my pencils. It all looks very arcane when I do it, and it has led to me closing the blinds on some very nice, sunny days lately. The things I do for art.