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Artist/writer, has kayak, sled dogs and horse, will travel. Cruise ships must have cannons. Has decorated underwater Christmas trees, carved the Gourd of the Rings (underwater), and survived an earthquake on a pirate ship. (oh just go look at my website: swordwhale.com)

Recent Comments

  1. almost 5 years ago on Dogs of C-Kennel

    All the huskies I’ve had NEVER chased sticks… any toy that squeaks like a dying rabbit is another story… and belllyyyyyy rubs!

  2. almost 11 years ago on Zen Pencils

    Good art, great insights. Neat strip.

    Um, the horses. Yeah. Nope.

    I grew up on horseback. (not actually making a living at it, or the art either)…(yet)…

    Your horsewoman is going to be sued because her students will A. fall to their doom when their horses bolt and the bridle falls off because there is no crownpiece or throatlatch on the bridle to hold it on… and B. when the saddle falls off because there is no girth holding it on either. One mounts on the left side, not the right (don’t know about Australia or New Zealand…). Horses come in lots of cool colors, really (um, not just mud brown). English saddles and Western saddles are both nice, and look very different.

    Points for the helmets, though…

    You can learn how to draw a real horse, in real horse colors, with real tack, and real riders wearing real riding gear here:

    http://www.swordwhale.com/drawing-horses-101.html

    and here:

    http://www.pinterest.com/swordwhale/drawing-horses-101-anatomy/

    (there are 14 more pinterest boards on horses 101 there too)…

    Sam Savitt and Wesley Dennis and George Stubbs are way better than me, only they’re dead. Look ’em up :)

  3. over 12 years ago on Over the Hedge

    I like your yard. I hate lawn mowers (unless they go “baaah”).

    Ironically, I had to put away the mushing gear (wheels, in PA) before the Iditarod (sleds, in AK)(where they actually have, still, some wicked cool snow) was over…. dogs now enjoying pools.

    Horses have not yet shed winter coats, which leads to sudsy (sweat) horses when you ride.

    Where are those guys who don’t believe in global warming? I’m going to dip them in a vat of sudsy horse sweat. And send them to AK… where they should freeze into lovely snowsculptures.

  4. over 12 years ago on Frazz

    you know there’s a widget you can buy online, a handle that clips into a mundane set of skis… turning it into a dogsled…all you need now is a couple of pitbulls…

  5. almost 13 years ago on Over the Hedge

    @ opentomeet… but turtles live a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time…

  6. almost 13 years ago on Frazz

    Frazz…and Varnes…rock!

  7. almost 13 years ago on Frazz

    …and I’ll follow with my other Polish friends, the huskies… (I want to see Frazz skijoring…)

  8. almost 13 years ago on Little Dog Lost

    AAAAAAGHHHH! the natural state of the Possum: upside down alongside the road…

  9. almost 13 years ago on Frazz

    Frazz, where were you when I was 22???

    awesome strip!

  10. almost 13 years ago on Non Sequitur

    what would happen if Wiley and Aardman collided, er, collaborated…