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I have started a new photography blog of Sun related architecture here in San Francisco.Take a look here.

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Today's theme is religion as all but the too-dense-to-be-reading-this-blog can easily see. As a vegan, I hate to promote any good news about cheese, but this pun was too much fun to pass up so I made an exception. If this were the shape of the folks who pester you at home you could answer the door with a giant cracker and scare the hell out of them.

Speaking of Hell, here's a ditty from the archives, from December of '96. This cartoon was requested by a friend who claims it as her favorite. She found it in my book, "Life is Strange and So Are You." It's out of print, as all my books are because you people don't buy enough books, but you can likely still find copies of it if you search online. Amazon may even have some.

This cartoon was from the time before I had learned to color my own work on computer, so I was doing it the old-fashioned way, which was to send the black and white version to the printer with elaborate numbers all over it telling them where to put various percentages of blue, red, yellow, and black. Coloring these things with numbers was an art form all it's own and you never knew what you were going to get until it came out in the paper. This one is ugly as hell, which is apropos. If I were doing it today, it would look so much better.
By the way, this depiction of "heck" is based on a visit to my grandparents' house. They suffered every day of their lives sitting on plastic-covered furniture, but when they died, it was as beautiful and new as the day it was bought. Praise Cheeses.

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"If satisfaction with ones work creeps in, the time has come to give up and take to prostitution. A sure sign that there is still hope is when one is miserable at not having met ones own demands"

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"Line is useless if one has nothing to say with it. The Artist must be driven with the desire to achieve it. He must be perverse. Everybody will want to mould him to their pattern but in the end he has to satisfy himself - or spend his life trying to please other people."

Ronald Searle

Boceto previo al dibujo, sobre Mietta leyendo unas frases de " las uvas del ira" de Steinbeck. Hasta aquí puedo leer por hoy! =)

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Here are three jokes I really like; two new ones and one from 1998.

The basic idea for the baboon joke was sent to me by a reader. I really wish I'd thought of it. So perfect. My wife, CHNW, had heart surgery when she was 20 because one of her valves had been eaten away by a random infection. She needed to have the valve replaced and was offered either a mechanical one or a pig's valve. As regular readers know, she's an avid animal rights activist so you can imagine her response to the pig valve. She got a mechanical one, of course, and now ticks like a clock. When it's really quiet, you can actually hear it.

"Whack-A-Mirror" is based on the popular "Whack-A-Mole" arcade game. I love the self-loathing aspect. Not sure why, I guess because I hate myself sometimes. Don't we all? Please tell me you hate yourself sometimes, I don't want to be the only one. That would give me more reason to hate myself.
This final gag from the archives of Bizarro International Headquaters is a longtime fave of mine. I've seen a few takes on the "I can take that for you if you'd like to be in it" phenomenon, but this is among my favorites. In those days, I used to draw TONS of background on almost every cartoon. I do less of that now because I already work too many hours and the joke is the same either way. Even still, I draw more backgrounds than 99% of cartoonists, so I don't feel so bad. No mirror-whacking for me today.

Why do i see these things only in limousines but not in familycars?





























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So I have been horsing around (yuk yuk) with some new visual concepts during my spare moments, and I recently fleshed out this idea.

>ballpoint pen on paper. 7 x 14″, 2010

You’ll find I am among the many artists with an enthusiam for science, biology and natural history, and I’ve become absorbed in how certain shapes mimic that of human anatomical bits: a seahorse’s body echoing the s-curve of a human spine, a ribcage and digestive system located on the underbelly of a horseshoe crab. This interest in anatomy is perhaps part ego; a curiosity rooted in the desire to explore the backbone and underlying structure of our physical form and emotional condition. Plus I think for the way the visual artist’s brain is wired, biology resonates most for its visual and tactile accessibility. I hated physics. I hated chemistry. In a parallel existence I may have been a surgeon (assuming in this parallel world I also occupied a higher intellectual bracket.)

There will be more where this came from if I don’t get too overwhelmed by other distractions.

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I'm back from my vacation and gosh darn it's good to see you. If I discover any cool pics from my trip, I'll be sure to post them. Just went to Florida to hang out with CHNW's dad, though, so it was pretty chill. It's really rare that I can sit around for a few days and do nothing.

I have a business trip out west next week, so I'm really slammed with deadlines. In addition to my regular unrelenting 7-cartoons-a-week schedule, I've got to do a book cover for my upcoming "Bizarro Heroes" book, which will be full of cartoons about super heroes and caped crime fighters of all kinds. I'm also supposed to do a promotional cartoon for a charity thing that King Features is doing and a couple of other things I can't recall right now. Guess I should have been writing these things down.

To some people, the life of a syndicated cartoonist may seem glamorous and fun, and it certainly can be, but I regularly work 7 days a week, at least 8 hours a day. It wears on me, just like any other job would. And no matter how stressed or tired I am, I have to come up with enough funny ideas to fill every day of my life until I retire. Just typing that sentence made my stomach hurt.

This cartoon about the couple arose recently when I found out about "speed dating." It's a real deal that people do, look it up. It makes sense in an odd, unnatural way, because all relationships play out to an end at some point, some sooner than later. Might as well get it over with, I suppose. What I've done here is to compress what usually takes a year or more into four sentences. If you can get a relationship past numbers one and two and still find some joy in it, you can avoid number four. Sometimes.

This old cartoon from my archives is one that has seriously dated itself. When I drew it, in 1996, people still carried "beepers." (More accurately called "pagers.") People under a certain age won't even know what those were. I thought I'd be happy to see them go because the beeping was an annoyance, but the electronic-super-fly-disco ringtones of today are even worse in my opinion.
Sorry to be a bit of a downer today. I'm overwhelmed with re-entry. Ugh.

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Mary Shelley was born on this day (1797?) Here she is delivering the first stab at her monster classic to her wine soaked poetry buddies.
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Le catalogue très attendu de Redefining the line - Art Nouveau et femmes figure féminine, est maintenant disponible.

Redefining the line a été présentée par la California State University, Fullerton à la California State Fullerton College of the Arts de août  à octobre 2009. Cette exposition a présenté les graphismes, illustration et les travaux d'installation de dix artistes contemporains internationaux: Pomme Chan, Deanne Cheuk, Naja Conrad-Hansen, Aya Kato, Pandarosa, Marguerite Sauvage, Alberto Seveso, Sonya Suhariyan, Yoshi Tajima et Eveline Tarunadjaja. L'exposition étudie l'influence de l'Art Nouveau historique sur l'art contemporain en présentant des œuvres d'artistes qui utilisent à la fois les techniques traditionnelles et les médias numériques, et démontre l'impact des pères historiques de l'Art Nouveau sur notre culture visuelle. "

J'ai reçu mes exemplaires du catalogue dernièrement  et je suis enchantée ! Le livre est superbe, un tel beau bouquet de talents variés autour de l'illustration féminin moderne.

Pour avoir un aperçu de l'exposition passée et acheter le livre s'il vous plaît cliquez ici.

The highly anticipated catalog of Redefining the line - Art Nouveau and Female Figure, is available now.

"Redefining the Line: Art Nouveau and the Female Figure was presented by California State University, Fullerton at California State Fullerton College of the Arts in August 29-October 2, 2009. This exhibition showcased the graphic design, illustration and installation work of ten international contemporary artists : Pomme Chan, Deanne Cheuk, Naja Conrad-Hansen, Aya Kato, Pandarosa, Marguerite Sauvage, Alberto Seveso, Sonya Suhariyan, Yoshi Tajima and Eveline Tarunadjaja. It investigated the influence of historical Art Nouveau on contemporary art by featuring works by artists who use both traditional and digital media, demonstrates the impact designers and illustrators have made on our visual culture. "

I received receltly some of them for my "author use" and I was so happy : this book is wondefult, such a nice bunch of varied talents around modern feminin illustration.

To have a look at the past exhibition and buy the book please clic here.

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After a hard days shushing what's the best way for any Bad Librarian to wind down ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJfSS0ZXYdo&feature=player_embedded Nada, que sigo con el cómic=) Y esto ha sido un breve entretenimiento para mantener el blog vivo, espero que os guste, a mí me encantan los coches raros, contra más raros, más me gustan.

Head over to the brand new bennewman.co.uk. It's dead fancy like!

it's 33 degrees here. nov's writing hangs up above.

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