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the small camera

You know my big camera, the Kaspian Monster, and of course the new phone camera is a blogging workhorse, but I don’t think you’ve ever met my small camera.  So here’s an “around the studio in available...

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dreaming of a blue toolbox

The world is full of people who love bags and boxes and containers of all kinds.  If that means you,  here’s a wonderful blue toolbox. It’s a Trusco, from Japan, and I just want to fill it up with my...

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the drawing of the day, year seven

Regular readers already know about my drawing of the day project.  Six years ago yesterday I made a New Year’s resolution to do a finished, inked drawing every day for year. Frankly, I would have...

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through the black chicken gate (thoughts on worldbuilding) part2

At the same time I was thinking about the black chicken, I was looking, as I often do, at a copy of this map of Kekionga which I have taped to wall in the studio. I really like this map, and I think it...

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minicomics live! tomorrow (in spite of everything)

The last few days have been filled with doubt– not artistic doubt, never that*, but technological doubt.  Not only is the ancient computer still ancient (Windows XP will never quite die), but for some...

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first world (cartoonists’) problems

Cartoonist (to him or herself) : Draw fast!  All your references for the drawing of the antique skeleton key* are on your phone and you’re running out of juice! Cartoonist’s younger self (or, if the...

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internet shopping list

A partial list for late night shopping on the internet: Aurora fountain pen ink, black (2 bottles) Belt from strapworks.com in zippy “rainbow trout” pattern to match my camera strap Keen Newport...

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drawing table still life

Just another day at the drawing table, complete with multiple rolls of blue tape, 83 ¢ worth of crayons,  and the word “Brontosaurus” typeset in 54 point Cooper Black.

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yet another studio mystery -or- the worst superhero name ever

Tearing up the studio, getting ready for a con: it’s always nice to find a long lost new pen rather than the mummified mouse I always rather dread …  I“BBBBB: I love lettering the letter B with an...

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smartphone pictures you don’t want to take

At least on this particular day. Stupid inconvenient running-out-at-the-very-worst-possible-time toner.  (Yes, it’s an old cartridge– I thought it was a new spare.  Augh.  Seriously.) Love the printer...

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coming soon:

Coming soon to the blog: This week’s best of the drawing of the day.  At the movies: Deadpool.  More about the analog technology based superhero team we’re creating over in the comments for Wednesday’s...

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a stack of corgis

The corgis spent a little while in a stack this morning.  Their crates usually block the only route through the house from the front door to the kitchen that’s wide enough for a refrigerator on a...

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work day

It was a work day today. Except for a walk and a trip to Costco and a surprising amount of active photography– photos from Costco may turn up here soon. But mostly a work day, so have a picture of my...

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smashed mosquito macro

That is a title folks. This story started yesterday when I was cleaning up the kitchen and found the dried up remains of one of those really big mosquitoes.  Somebody must have smashed him in the last...

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ask bud! cover rough

Here’s the rough finished cover for ASK BUD!, complete with half finished corrections, unerased pencil lines, smears,  and paste-ups made with actual paper slips pasted on to the piece of Bristol I...

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desktop cap

Earlier this week, a fateful encounter with my Pinterest feed woke within me an insatiable desire for a certain small statue of Captain America.  So I went out and bought it and I am not sorry one bit....

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drawing table vision

Yesterday, it was desktop Cap supervising writing and blogging from his spot on top of my computer.  Over on the drawing table, his sometimes fellow Avenger, the Vision, is providing more hands on...

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brontosauruses on paper

Today’s “around the studio” photo shows multiple brontosauruses.  As usual, the first drawing in the sketchbook is better than the finished version.

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smartphone pictures you don’t want to take

At least on this particular day. Stupid inconvenient running-out-at-the-very-worst-possible-time toner.  (Yes, it’s an old cartridge– I thought it was a new spare.  Augh.  Seriously.) Love the printer...

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a stack of corgis

The corgis spent a little while in a stack this morning.  Their crates usually block the only route through the house from the front door to the kitchen that’s wide enough for a refrigerator on a...

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