Fear of the body 1 of 4

A "sketch" for a series about being squeamish and repressed. Or this might be the last one.

Teaching o' the comics

My friend, the painter Terence Donovan, invited me to teach a comics class with him at a local arts center. It's fun--mostly because Terence is a great, warm teacher who the kids love and trust. Then Duffy, the rigid dilettante, hands out "worksheets" and lectures on clarity. Luckily, the kids just draw funny comics and don't take my posturing too seriously. And in fact, they do like the worksheets, for the most part.

Here's some I handed out last week. Each kid blew through them in about 3 minutes!
(Click for bigger.)

I am an professional editor!

Did I mention I'm available to edit comics on a freelance basis? That's right! See the list of some of my comics credits on the left; search the internet for nice things said about my professionalism and abilities; look at this picture of me intently reading something (that I didn't actually edit). It all adds up to one thing: this guy was born to be paid for editing comics. "This guy" is me, by the way.

I know blogs aren't always the place to do this kind of thing. Not very info- or enter-taining. But still, it's all true!

Power Glove 1/20/10

Some editor! I used the phrase "for a sec" or "for a second" three times. I'll be fixing that.

Parts of the Dog--1990 comic by your host

In 1990 I decided to be a cartoonist and I moved to New York. This was one of the first comics (well, more of a humor piece) that I did in my swank Brooklyn apartment with real live comics tools--crow quill, India ink, and bristol board. Turned out okay, if you like the doggie humor. It was never published anyplace but my sister in law liked it enough to hang a copy in her bathroom. That's the highest flattery as far as I'm concerned!

Please note, I did not draw the dog. It's from my trusty Webster's 9th New Collegiate Dictionary.

Click on the thumbnail below to see it big and readable.

Power Glove 1/14/10

Power Glove 1/13/10

I'm going to start updating my Power Glove "graphic" "novel" in black and white here and put the color (eventually) at my webcomics nation page.

For those few of you who don't know my Power Glove work (it's possible there are a few of you) the story starts here. Seriously, this will seem totally random at first, but I need to post frequently if I'm ever to finish!