It is customary to kick the naked body of a sick person in the driveway of emergency intake, right? I’m sure Stan will be fine. As for today’s folklore on saucers of milk, we come to the inspiration for this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fetch
It’s just not Stan’s night. He is fortunate to be unconscious for most of these proceedings. So where exactly are they? Well, I don’t know where in Oregon one might find an arrangement of stones like this, but they are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Poor Stan. He is a lot of fun to draw. His feet are huge and his face pressed against the window amuses me. And I had fun drawing the cats. Lettering by hand is tough, mainly because it cramps up[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Things get weirder and creepier. I really enjoyed drawing the cats for this page. Which is great, because there will be more cats next week. Cat anatomy is really three balls joined by two Slinkies, a short one between head[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are the first four pages of a ten page story, “Saucer of Milk: or, How I Met Fetch.” You can call it an “origin” story, if you like. While the summer gets more absurd and/or horrifying around the world,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A lot of people are less than thrilled with this election. It is, as they say, butts. Come November I will throw my vote at the Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton. I don’t think she is as bad as many make[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week’s strip is a little late and in B&W, but for a very good reason. I spent the weekend putting together the first comic book collection of Fetch strips and sent it off to the printer on Sunday. It[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last Thursday night, watching cable news and monitoring Twitter for updates on the shooting in Dallas, I re-experienced in condensed time the mixture of frustration, horror, fear and confusion we went through during the Boston Marathon bombing and the days[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of my least favorite habits of mainstream comic strip artists is the holiday greeting strip. The worst of them come at Christmas time, but the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, and sometimes Halloween bring this out of American cartoonists, too.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We talk a lot about elites. Our political system is broken by corporate elites. The elites in Washington (or Brussels or wherever) are out of touch with the people. The global elite has no national loyalties, implements policies that enrich[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…