The best part of cartooning
I have a new story in the works that I’m hoping to have news about sometim...
2022-11-22 17:26:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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Let It Go
Too Old For Frozen
Lori from The Fifth Quarter is too old to enjoy watching Frozen.
I have a school visit on Thursday that I've been fine-tuning my presentation for, including adding this little strip to it. I'm so very fond of The Block Family, and sometimes wonder if I should dev...
New Pants - Public Post
I don't like shopping, but I do like having on a pair of pants that look good and fit properly.
'Zine C...
2022-11-14 15:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostNovember Ashcan
Reminder that $5 members of my ‘Zine Club will be receiving a bonus “ashcan” in the mail next month. Life During Interesting Times, a small print adaptation of an Eisner award nominated essay I published at The Nib, with revised text and new collages throughout.
Thankyou as always to everybody supporting me here. Seems like my trusty Mac desktop is in its last days and will need to be replaced, so the money I’m earning here will help go towards that.
I talked to somebody ...
2022-10-29 17:35:24 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember 2020
I have a small comics project in the works, expected to go live in the next few weeks, dealing a little bit with accomplishing small tasks during lockdown and how we’re allowing many of the memories of what that was like to go down the memory hole. This comic took me back on some of that stuff. I will of course post about that new piece when it’s up.
Reminder, all ‘Zine Club Plus members will be receiving a new 24 page ashcan comic in the mail from me next month. If you’d like t...
2022-10-22 13:54:38 +0000 UTC View Post"Life During Interesting Times" ashcan
November 'Zine Club Plus extra
At this point, copies of 2022-10-19 13:49:29 +0000 UTC View Post
I can see clearly now…
Early Pandemic Diary. April 3, 2020.
I’m slowly working on a presentation for children about writing comics and memory, and it has me revisiting some of the diary comics I wrote during the very early pandemic. This one from fairly early on reminded me how the first time I ever wore a mask outside I was self-conscious that I was going to look dumb.
I have zero, zero, ZERO nostalgia for any aspect of the pandemic. Even this comic, which was about how it felt to me that we were al...
2022-10-06 18:45:24 +0000 UTC View Post
FUN TIME FALL 2022 - going into the mail
I wanted to share this update to let Patrons know my new 'zine with the unwieldy title FUN TIME FALL 2022, SELL-OUT COMICS (the Generation X issue) is going into the mail this weekend. Please allow a few days to arrive, but if you haven't received your copy in the next seven to ten days, let me know. A couple packages from my last batch never arrived. International Patrons maybe giv...
2022-09-30 13:56:18 +0000 UTC View PostRise Roar Revolt
It's been a while since I've had that feeling of "I wish I could experience this for the first time again". Truly loved this film.
Working on developing a positive attitude toward freelance life to maintain...
2022-09-28 14:41:55 +0000 UTC View PostMarch 2020 Memories
Just because we're social distancing doesn't mean we should become socially distant.
School was out yesterday, ...
2022-09-27 15:22:15 +0000 UTC View PostBest Worst Costume
Extremely important stuff here.
This is a real ranking that I keep. Puck used to be my number one, and Na...
2022-09-23 15:22:09 +0000 UTC View PostPasty Skin
An update for my $5 and up Patrons: I have been working on new "D+D" pages, but not enough yet for a proper update. A lot of my energy and effort the past two weeks has been spent producing original comics for the new issue of my FUN TIME 'zine.
I had thought about posting the new mat...
2022-09-21 13:20:40 +0000 UTC View PostIt was either 1992 or 1993
Short comic from my new 'zine, FUN TIME FALL 2022.
Unlike the first one, the Fall issue is going to feature a lot more exclusive comics. I draw a lot of short diary and sketchbook comics which I post ...
2022-09-12 18:54:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Say “hi” to Grandma
I’d like to be the first middle-grade graphic novelist to accurately depict a Gen Z kid talking on a phone
2022-08-30 12:41:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Video Games
Are either bad for you or extremely enriching depending on whether I like playing them or not
2022-08-23 23:54:17 +0000 UTC View PostDavid+David - update for $5 Patrons
This is an update for everybody supporting me at the $5 and more level.
First off, thank-you for your continued support. I can't tell you how much I appreciate it.
I want to give you a heads-up about a new feature I'm going to be offering exclusively for $5 Patrons.
This past year I started creating minicomics and 'zines again, which has been a real treat. I absolutely love self-publishing small batches of work and sending them out in the mail. FUN TIME FALL 2022...
2022-08-23 14:18:42 +0000 UTC View PostSoon.
This is a diary comic I made somewhere in the middle of that first year of the pandemic, when we were all at home, stuck on our screens, not seeing anybody.
I include this strip in the presentation that I take to school and libraries, to talk to the kids about how art and writing can be a place to explore feelings that are sometimes sad. Sometimes, particularly when I was first delivering my slidesho...
2022-08-19 14:57:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Stranger Things
*yes, I know Eddie Munson wasn’t an actual older brother to any of the characters, but he had all the vibes
2022-08-07 13:25:14 +0000 UTC View PostFUN TIME FALL 2022
I made a total mess rolling out my new ‘zine, first publishing a post where I’m calling it one thing and then changing my mind and coming up with something new and having to repost, but such is the nature of this Patreon…
I just want to share the final cover image to the new ‘zine I will be publishing and mailing to backers in September. FUN TIME FALL 2022, full color, at least 20 pages, possibly more. I am still writing and drawing the comic that I hope to be t...
2022-08-06 12:05:16 +0000 UTC View PostGeneration YECCCCHH!
Announcing the next mini-comic I will be producing as part of my Patreon zines-by-mail subscription offering: “Generation YECCCCHH!”, the title and logo fully appropriated as is appropriate for something aping the fine-arts ethos of the 1990’s.
This fellow here on the f...
2022-08-04 17:07:16 +0000 UTC View PostTeach Your Children Well
This is an older cartoon, recently polished up and colorized for inclusion in the presentation I take to schools and libraries to talk to kids about comics. The purpose of this strip in the slideshow is to make the point that comics can be about anything, even a dad’s inconsequential paranoid phobia about going inside of port-a-potties.
2022-08-03 14:35:04 +0000 UTC View Post