Category Archives: Poetry

Geo. Herriman

Here’s what my next screen print should look like—except less neon orange and more rust. I’ll try to update with a better version if I get a chance—or maybe I’ll just scan a finished print! From e. e. cummings’s 1946 tribute to Krazy Kat: …let’s make no mistake about Krazy. Her helplessness, as we have just [...]

Gulf

For Bill Watterson          

Monk Touched Up

This is More Like It How I love Photoshop. I wonder if this might still benefit from the addition of a duotone, but I’m pretty happy with it as-is. I’ve also gone through and widened everything, so it should be easier to read pieces without having to click-through.

Monk's "Japanese Folk Song"

It will look better bigger… …so go on and click the images. The whole thing probably needs some touching up, but here it is. It sure feels good to be back at it.

Drawn (wash)

That’s more like it I think it’s safe to say this piece benefits much more from this ink wash treatment than the earlier crosshatching. It’s also a bit less cramped, thanks to Photoshop. So, it’s really a black watercolor wash, and it turns out that’s a surprisingly forgiving medium. Made something too dark? Just squeeze [...]

Light Exercises

(click on the image for a larger version) Comics are Hard… And they take a long time. I’ll just say that it must be Monday somewhere and leave it at that. This is the first new piece in a long time. (The previous poems were completed months before the website went up.) It’s also an [...]

William Blake

(click on the image for a larger version) I don’t have too much to say about this one. It’ll have to speak for itself. But here’s a general note about the site: I hope to stick to a schedule where I post “major” updates (i.e., new work) every Monday, with smaller bits between (e.g., reviews, [...]