BLOG ARCHIVES
2007
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December 30th
ONE YEAR AGO…
Our first anniversary…
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December 25th
ON THE CHRISTMAS LEGEND
An excerpt about Joseph, forgiveness, and the Christmas Legend, from Stephen Mitchell’s THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JESUS.
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December 23rd
JOHN PORCELLINO’S PERFECT EXAMPLE: REMIX
A “remix” of drawings from John Porcellino’s PERFECT EXAMPLE.
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December 21st
CUTTING AND PASTING THE GOSPELS
On Stephen Mitchell’s THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JESUS and Thomas Jefferson’s cut-up version of the gospels, (aka The Jefferson Bible).
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December 17th
SEEKING ALWAYS FOR THE PICTURE
A couple of sketchbook pages and a new look for El Bloggo.
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December 13th
PROCESS: T-SHIRT DESIGN FOR BOOKSLUT
T-shirt design for Bookslut.com: lots of sketches, Photoshop, and Google Image Search.
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December 13th
THE POLITICAL BRAIN BY DREW WESTEN
Mind map I drew while reading Drew Westen’s highly recommended book, THE POLITICAL BRAIN.
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December 9th
THE DRAWINGS OF GEORGE GROSZ
Several examples of the drawings of German artist George Grosz (1893-1959), including quotes from cartoonists Ralph Steadman and Ivan Brunetti.
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December 5th
PROCESS: LADY JUSTICE WITH A LAPTOP
T-shirt design for the Law School’s IT department: lots of sketches, Photoshop, and Google Image Search.
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November 23rd
POSTCARDS FROM TEXAS, 1929
Postcards from Austin and San Antonio that my great-grandfather sent to his daughters in 1929.
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November 17th
WEEKEND SKETCHBOOK
Sketchbook pages and quotes on comics from Alison Bechdel and John Porcellino.
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November 16th
TRYING OUT STANFORD’S VECTORMAGIC TOOL
Trying out Stanford’s VectorMagic online vectorization tool on a low-grade .jpeg copy of a piece for which I’d lost the original artwork.
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November 11th
OTTO SOGLOW AND THE LITTLE KING
Several examples and a history of Otto Soglow’s strip for the New Yorker, “The Little King.”
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November 11th
CHARLES SCHULZ ON HIS PROCESS OF MENTAL DRAWING
Charles Schulz: “While I am carrying on a conversation with someone, I find that I am drawing with my eyes.”
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November 11th
OLD ADVENTURES WITH THE TARQUIN ENGINE
Examples of previous flash-based infinite canvas experiments with the Tarquin engine.
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November 4th
TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL SKETCHBOOK
Sketches and drawings of the 2007 Texas Book Festival, including readings by George Saunders and Tom Perrotta.
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November 1st
THE CHANNEL DRAGON (AND OTHER DRAWINGS)
Various sketchbook drawings, including a dragon terrorizing Venice.
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October 30th
ONE MORE DEATH BELL FOR NEWSPAPER COMICS
Lynda Barry’s strip, Ernie Pook’s Comeek has been dropped from newspapers all over the country.
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October 29th
THE TWELVE DEVICES OF PEANUTS
A list of the 12 devices to which Charles Schulz attributed the success of his comic strip, Peanuts, with examples.
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October 26th
TUMBLR
Another redesign, the blog as a journal, the tumblelog as a scrapbook, and Clive Thompson on blogging less like a linkdump and more like an essayist.
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October 23rd
LELAND MYRICK ON TURNING POETRY INTO COMICS
Leland Myrick’s MISSOURI BOY started out as a batch of poems that he put together and made into a graphic novel.
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October 23rd
MEG’S CLIP-ART COMIC ABOUT SOMETHING I “INVENTED” IN A DREAM
Meg uses clip-art to make a comic about something I invented in a dream.
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October 21st
LYNDA BARRY’S GIRLS + BOYS & EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD
Excerpts from Lynda Barry’s two comic strip collections, GIRLS AND BOYS and EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD.
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October 21st
VULGAR MAN
A comic where the character says, “I’m a vulgar man. Is that okay?”
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October 17th
CHARLES SCHULZ ON CHARLIE ROSE
Charles Schulz talking to Charlie Rose about cartooning, design, humor, sadness, and autobiographical details in Peanuts.
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October 17th
DOUGLAS WOLK’S READING COMICS AND KURT VONNEGUT’S SIRENS OF TITAN
Sketchbook reviews of Douglas Wolk’s READING COMICS and Kurt Vonnegut’s SIRENS OF TITAN.
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October 16th
WHY I LIKE BASEBALL
Baseball is a fundamentally dramatic game: every player gets to strut up to the plate and try to knock it out of the park.
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October 15th
WE HAD A GOOD TIME THIS WEEKEND
Photobooth pictures from a wedding.
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October 15th
UNFINISHED THOUGHTS ON THE DARK SIDE OF CHARLES SCHULZ
A sketchbook comic about the alleged “dark side” of Charles Schulz.
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October 10th
JULIAN GOUGH ON COMEDY
Julian Gough on the reason so many novels are tragic as opposed to comic, and why it doesn’t have to be that way.
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October 10th
IT’S A GOOD MORNING…
In ten years of listening, Radiohead has never let me down.
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October 9th
SHALOM AUSLANDER ON RELIGION AND ANGER
Shalom Auslander on anger and the difference between an intellectual disbelief of God and an emotional belief in Him.
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October 8th
SOMETIMES IT REALLY SUCKS TO BE A CARTOONIST
Adrian Tomine tells a story about overhearing a fellow diner in a restaurant tear his work to shreds.
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October 7th
THAT ONE ODD DETAIL…THE ONE THING THAT ISN’T TYPICAL
George Saunders quotes Hemingway on significant details.
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October 3rd
A CAUTIONARY TALE
Blackout poem: “Big cat said he got bird flu from a super freaky gurl cat who requested anonymity because it was Big Cat that first made overtures so now…”
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October 3rd
GOD HELP US
Blackout poem: “God help us / the story ends / no other way.”
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October 2nd
JACK KEROUAC AND ON THE ROAD
On the best piece about Jack Kerouac’s ON THE ROAD that I’ve ever read.
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October 2nd
DRAWING THAT SIGNIFICANT OTHER, PART TWO
A photographer’s wife who never said no to posing for a portrait.
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October 1st
DRAWING THAT SIGNIFICANT OTHER (SCENES OF DOMESTIC BLISS)
Examples of comic artists drawing their significant other…
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October 1st
THE PIRATES WHO WON THE WORLD FROM INDIANS
Blackout poem: “Gone is the night / gone is Washington / Gone is the most valuable player / the regulars will weep / trying to find the pirates who won…”
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September 27th
NOTES ON A SCOTT MCCLOUD LECTURE
Sketchbook comics of a Scott McCloud lecture at the University of Texas.
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September 26th
NO REASON TO BE HOITY-TOITY ABOUT IT
Iron and Wine singer Sam Beam on selling out.
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September 26th
JACK WHITE ON ROCK & ROLL STORYTELLING
Everything from your haircut to your clothes to the type of instrument you play to the melody of a song to the rhythm — they’re all tricks to get people to pay attention to the story.
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September 25th
HOW TO AVOID A BEHEADING
I like to draw while watching TV: I drew this while watching Ken Burns’ new documentary, which is quite good. The guy who told this story is a badass.
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September 25th
VONNEGUT: THREE ACTS OF PUNCTUATION
Kurt Vonnegut said that a question mark, an exclamation point and a period were the punctuation outline of a three-act story.
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September 24th
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
A sketchbook comic in which I try to catch the bus and fail.
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September 24th
MORE ANDERS NILSEN
Anders Nilsen on inspiration, not-knowing, art and religion, and disguising himself in his work.
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September 24th
DAVID HEATLEY ON COMICS AND GRAPHIC DESIGN
A quote from David Heatley about how getting into graphic design influenced his comics work.
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September 20th
BADASS, LIKE A BEAUTICIAN AT THE WHEEL
Thoughts on ZZ Top.
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September 18th
TWO BRILLIANT QUOTES ABOUT CARTOONING
Chris Ware on the cartoonist as a combination of writer and artist, and Anders Nilsen on not-knowing.

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