Ice and Snow

Friday night is right for art of the ice and snow.

Flowers, or The Three Fates

A watercolor from the sketchbook.

Zombie Celebration!

Finally, finally - my "A.D.D.Man" comic story is done, ready for the Cincinnati comic collection. Here's my zombie self-portrait - which shows just how happy I am! Yay!

Something Sweet

It's a nice day today.

Gold Dandelion

The miracle of wonder, the wonder of miracles, gold for the golden.

New Work

I've been busy. New comic on its way. Soon appearing in a comic book near you.

Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School

Done live and on the spot at Covington's Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School. Only $5 to get in, held at Leapin' Lizard gallery and event space. This is my sketch of the evening's amazing '50s styled model, June Cleaver.

For all you artists, on Dec. 10th, the Dr. Sketchy live drawing night will be back at the Lizard.

And I had forgotten that portraits are a blast to do, especially in limited colors like this. I need to do this more often.

Impact New Orleans

One from the vaults.

When in New Orleans, these kinds of scenes were part of the wallpaper. So in 2001, I captured the New Year's Eve streets for Impact Magazine. I designed the unusual "L-shape" to wrap around the story for maximum emphasis.

Unfortunately, the piece never was printed right, so I thought: now's my chance to shine. So to speak.

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Nostalgia for New Orleans

When they're gone for good, they weren't so bad.

Vector Victor

My kid can steal your kid's identity.

(A proposed T-shirt design.)

The Ostrich Whistler

When was the last time you used a pay phone?

State of Mind

Also titled "Peace and Panic."

You know, I'm actually developing several FUNNY comic strips. But since that takes so much time, I'm posting the sketchbook stuff - which is scarier, I know.

But I love all of my children.

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Night Scene Seen

A soft folding of color over a shadowed street - back in Cincinnati, but my mind is elsewhere...

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Into Every Life Some Rain Must Fall

Let the headless horses walk and skeletons sing. Walls too high and cannot die.

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Monkey on my back

You don't need drugs when you got my monkey! Mon-keeeeey!
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I Wish I Were a Fish

Oh, Don Knotts, if you were still alive, I would give this picture to you!

Elephant's Gerald

Elephant's Gerald. (I've always wanted to use that terrible jazz vocalist pun, and I finally decided not to wait for an excuse.)

This is a panel from a comic that does not yet exist. Or a watercolor with words.

Damn Right, I've Got the Blues

...sang Buddy Guy, and then he sent his guitar to scream down the walls.

Look out.

Got Job?

Art's a tough row to hoe, but, by God, I hoed it.

Jim Carroll

Jim Carroll, author, poet, punker. Most famous for "The Basketball Diaries." He came to the University of Florida in 2005 and I won a seat at the honorary lunch for him, answering the "why I deserve to eat with Jim Carroll" essay contest.

That evening, he performed his poem "8 Fragments for Kurt Cobain." This is my portrait of him, drawn while he was on stage. He signed the drawing after the show.

This section of the poem reads:
But Kurt...
Didn't the thought that you would never write another song
Another feverish line or riff
Make you think twice?
That's what I don't understand
Because it's kept me alive, above any wounds