Category Archives: Yesterday & Today

More Me Overseas

I awoke this morning to find email in my inbox informing me that the Spanish-language edition of Stuck Rubber Baby has won yet another award.

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Underground Ad Man

Meeting Mark Martin a few weeks ago sent me ambling down memory lane, since we both hail from Birmingham, Alabama where we missed meeting each other in the mid-1970s by a mere half-degree of separation.

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Where Cartoonists Lurk

two weeks ago Eddie and I drove down Route 116 under a gorgeous, clear sky to join a bunch of Pioneer Valley cartoonists who were converging atan hospitable tavern in Amherst.

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Stage Lights and Storm Clouds

On four upcoming April evenings in New York City, a rarely seen one-act play written more than four decades ago is going to be revived, and I’m pleased to say that I contributed its title graphic.

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Going Way Back

Comics aficionados take note: the formidable Martha Thomases has returned to the sequential art playing fields.

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A Spanish Nod to Barefootz

I discovered this week that a charming comics-focused blog in Spain called "Little Nemo’s Cat" has devoted one of its posts to the first of my comic strip characters to find an audience beyond Alabama.

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Two Portraits

Once in a blue moon an opportunity arises for me to do a portrait. (I mean, one that other people besides Eddie see.) A couple of those blue-moon occasions have arisen since we relocated to New England.

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Learning and Teaching

Last Wednesday I bade a holiday farewell to the creative MCLA students who have gamely endured my cartooning tutelage for the last three months. I will miss their weekly company.

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The Lady from Paradise Island

I don’t get that many chances to draw iconic mainstream comic book characters without having to worry that some humorless industry lawyer may be lurking nearby looking to make a pinch for copyright infringement.

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9/11 Onward

Here we are on the fifth anniversary of 9/11. If ever there was a day for considered reflections on the state of things, this is it.

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