• Red Eyes See You

  • Comics Pantoum 2016

    This poem is made from copies of children’s war drawings and a pantoum created from a quote from a teacher in a war zone. (Click image to enlarge)

  • Marlys in Color

    She showed up one day when I was making a comic about some cousins who got sick on cotton candy at a parade. It was the first time I saw the characters that I would spend the next 30 years with.

  • Collage in the time of trouble

    When I’m stuck on a project or not knowing what to do, collage always helps. White school glue, scissors, old magazines, my composition notebook and an old movie playing while I work

  • The Demon Sea-Ma and the monkey who can’t quite bring himself to avoid her

    Can the monkey simply meditate his way out of this relationship?

    5″x7″, brush and ink, paper, white gel pen, white glue, cat food cardboard

    5″x7″, brush and ink, paper, white gel pen, white glue, cat food cardboard

  • Compbook Practice Pages

    The paper in my composition notebooks is just average lined notebook paper. It helps have a hair dryer to dry down the page so I can keep moving.

  • Drawing as a way to wonder about something

    I like thinking something over while I’m drawing in my composition notebook with a brush. There is something about writing and drawing brush that helps my mind wander. It allows ideas to step forward.

  • Finding the story by re-painting the scene

    I find out so much by drawing the same scene several times. It’s something I do when I’m feeling stuck. Instead of trying to think my way through the story, I draw the characters again in the same way. The drawing is already figured out so my task is uncomplicated. I just need to copy it, draw the same scene again. The kind of thinking I do when I’m copying a painting is the kind of thinking I need for the story which seems to deepen on it’s own when I do this. These are drawings I made to help me with a book I’ve been working on for a very long time. Brush and ink on old file folders.

  • Painting it over and over

    The character, “Sea Ma”, showed up one day and my urge to paint stayed with me until I’d painted her enough times to have a feeling for what she was about. This is one of the beautiful things about being a cartoonist. We get to know our characters by just drawing them again, calling them forward with repeated shapes and lines, getting to know them by the variations or an unintentional slant of a line that change the creatures entire mood.

  • The “Meanwhile” Knob

    A kid once told me that the perfect time machine had three knobs: Future, Past and Meanwhile. When I’m working on a project that slows and stalls for some reason, I’ve learned to practice collage during the ‘meanwhile’ before the thing I’m working on becomes accessible again.These collages keep my hands and eyes active and ready for when the images in my project return to me.

  • Compbook Creatures 2022

  • 7 Paintings that have been laying around

  • Embroidery

    Needlework is soothing.

  • 10 Compbook Pages from 2015

  • Compbook Collage

    At some point I will get stuck in whatever project I’m working on. This always happens. It’s as if what ever is moving the work forward needs to take a break. I’ve found that if I stop trying to make things work and switch to making collages in my composition notebook, it keeps my hands in motion and keeps me ready for when whatever it is I’m following decides to start up again.

    I don’t think very much about these collages as I’m doing them but much later I’m always surprised to find them looking so fresh when I open an old composition notebook.

    9″ x 7″, crumpled magazine pages, watercolor, white glue on notebook paper. January 2019

  • Ink wash

    i love these people.

  • Take Me Back

  • Camp Lulu