Recent Comments

1. about 3 hours ago on Maria's Day

   I posted a strip for the 3rd. Where is it???

2. about 3 hours ago on JumpStart

   The sign was in English, French, German, Spanish- maybe Italian- I forget how many languages.

3. about 3 hours ago on Working Daze

   When I started, I asked John if he wanted me to draw like Kyle, or do my own thing. He chose the later, because he’d never asked Kyle to draw like Andre. But once in a while, for fun, I’ll imitate their styles. So this is me drawing Ed like Kyle did.

4. about 3 hours ago on Working Daze

   The art certainly does make time. I pencil, letter, ink, scan, color, do all the mechanics. But yes, coming up with the gags is hard too. I know because we both do that. Sometimes they don’t feel like coming forth. I wrote most of 2021 and 2022 while John was doing continuing education. But today’s is a holdover from an idea that John had a few years ago, where each gag would have a note from him, making an excuse as to why he got behind. He wrote a bunch.

5. 1 day ago on Maria's Day

   Since Calvin ended well before Flat screens, I wonder how Watterson would have handled today’s TVs. So many gags in that strip dealt with the technology that was current at the time. And that tech served cartoonists well.

6. 1 day ago on JumpStart

   My wife and I were at Loch Ness. We did not see the monster. We did see the large sign reminding drivers from the US and Continental Europe that the UK drives on the left.

7. 1 day ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Have you seen the joke that Hallmark scientists, after years of experiment and study, may have finally developed a second plot?

8. 1 day ago on Working Daze

   Yes, they got him back inside to the couch.

9. 1 day ago on Working Daze

   I have that book- the hardcover edition. The cover shows Luke and Leia from behind, and- while I haven’t seen I confirmed- I suspected that Mark Hammill and Carrie Fisher may not yet have signed over the rights to use their likenesses in the context of their characters.

10. 1 day ago on Working Daze

    I did a book signing at Atlantic years ago.