Category Archives: Life & Art

And Then I Twittered…

Posted on July 7, 2008 by Howard





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Sometimes daily life is too scattered to sum up easily, so maybe I’ll just Twitter.


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An Old Spoof, Then Spain

Posted on June 22, 2008 by Howard

Here’s a rough sketch for a comic strip parody of Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury that I came across yesterday.

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“You’re So HOT When You Talk Spanish At Me!”

Posted on June 9, 2008 by Howard

"My Hypnotist" appears in black-and-white in Claro que sí cómics, as opposed to the full-color treatment it received in Young Bottom In Love. On the other hand, in Claro Que Si my characters spoke Spanish, which is more than I’m able to do.

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Of Granny and Belle and Phyllis and Felix

Posted on May 30, 2008 by Howard

If you were living in New York City in 1969, you may have seen press coverage about a procession of horse-drawn Hanson Cabs that paraded down Fifth Avenue one day, my college friend Julie Brumlik perched in the forefront.

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Ready To Party!

Posted on April 30, 2008 by Howard

OK, Martha Thomases, you’ve gotten me in the mood for next Saturday with this installment of Munden’s Bar that you’ve written for ComicMix this week!

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Tunes and ‘Toons at Penn State

Posted on April 24, 2008 by Howard

I was briefly a grad student at Penn State University forty years ago, but personal issues derailed my attempt to be a Very Good Fellow.

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On The Campaign Trail

Posted on April 10, 2008 by Howard

Eddie left yesterday to spend two weeks as a volunteer in Barack Obama‘s field operation in Hazleton, Pennsylvania.

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Our Furniture: Home Again at Last

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Howard

The renovation of the rest of our house almost finished now, with Evelyn’s room having been completed well ahead of the others so that she could return from rehab to a bedroom built just for her.

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Return to White River Junction

Posted on March 1, 2008 by Howard

On Valentine’s Day I made a return visit to White River Junction, VT, at the invitation of that city’s new creative crown jewel, the Center for Cartoon Studies.

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Memory Lane

Posted on January 29, 2008 by Howard

Sixteen years ago gay New Yorkers were treated to a months-long circus of public homophobia whose ringmaster, firebrand Mary Cummins, went to the barricades to stop choolchildren from learning that gay people existed.

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