Alan Moore and Me.

Hey, if any of you have heard of the most popular graphic novel of all time, Watchmen, you probably know that the creator, Alan Moore, kind of looks like wolf-man or something. He has an incredible amount of hair on his face and his head- it kind of looks like he's never cut it. Anyway, I was idly wondering to myself the other day- what would I look like with his hair?

   so I found some pictures and powered up photoshop and...

Wow, now I kind of want to never shave again. hooray!

Better Blog and Better Comic.

Well, my blog is a little more beautiful today...but only by a little. This was the only preset template that was orange, so this is the one I picked- I have decided, however, to manufacture my own template: a project that will take some time and thought and shall not be done for a while. For now we can stay with this one.



Secondly (for you comic lovers) I want to make a suggestion- check out Garfield minus Garfield. It is, according to the website,

"...dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to
reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a
journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a
losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb."

...and it is brilliant. Perhaps you might argue that it takes no effort to produce, but the concept of completely reconstructing Garfield by the removal of the title character is worthy of praise. True, some of the comics are confusing, some are downright weird, and most of them have a empty panel or two, but there is also some of the most sadly funny comics I have ever seen in this collection, and I will take G-G over the original any day.

Garfield Minus Garfield

Comic Time: Sophisticated Humor

For today's Comic Time I'm posting several farside-like gag cartoons written by myself and my brother in our younger, tenderer years. Our comic was called 'sophisticated humor' and most of the time that was an extreme oxymoron. I think some of them could be rather amusing- I especially like the one about the camel.

Sophisticated Humor

Work can get boring, so...

I do a lot of sitting in my truck at my job. I go wait for a detasseling crew, and if the crew is a hour late (an occurrence that is by no means uncommon) I have to sit in my truck for an hour. Do I bring a book? I really should, but thus far I have just ended up playing with my work phone. And what does a semi-artistic person do when he plays with a phone? He plays with the camera and whatever image manipulation tools the phone has (notoriously stone-age)

   And YOU benefit from that- I have made up a package of seriously groovy cellphone wallpapers and I'm offering them here gratis (as if I would charge anything for such things).  So if you have a cell phone, enjoy these offerings! If you have no cell phone, use them for whatever you like. You may even sell them, but I want royalties. 

 

Let's hope this works.

Wallpapers

Best parental advice ever.

I was sitting on lunch break...no, I was sitting on a bench, on my lunch break. I mean, the bench wasn't on my lunch break, I was. But then- if I was on the bench on my lunch break, was the bench taking a lunch break too? I don't know- it's all moot anyway. On this lunch break I picked up a friendly brochure that boasted that it would advise parents 'how to talk with your kids about smoking'.  inside the dubiously designed cover (I'm a designer- what can I say? The cover made me want to laugh and throw up at the same time) was a couple of paragraphs of helpful statistics (...and as my Dad says, there's Lies, **** Lies and there's statistics. And yes, he does censor that joke like I just did.) and a list of bullet points which were 'helpful tips to help you talk to your kids'. There were very helpful: such pointers as the Nikesque 'Just do it' to the sentences attempting to scare parents into submission to the idea of smoking as the Original Sin (I say that speaking against smoking is Racism: after all, the native Americans gave it to us, didn't they? I guess smoking is a greater sin) but the thing that really caught my eye was the last wonderful piece of advice, reproduced here for your enlightenment:

 And get this: the study cited as the source of this quotation was a study called "Do as I say..."

Unbearably cute.

Hey, folks. 

I have a little cat on my computer who chases my mouse around. I don't quite remember where I got it- I think it may be a yahoo! widget- but it is undoubtably one of the neatest little programs I've ever seen. His name is Neko, he chases the mouse, scratches himself, and can eventually fall asleep in a little ball. Well, a little while ago I had Neko with his grey coat (you can pick several different looks, as well as behavioral settings) hanging out on my computer screen. I was doing something else for a few minutes, and I looked up and Neko had fallen asleep in the lap of a friend, who appeared to be stroking Neko's head-

Neko Napping

Well, this was just about the cutest thing I'd ever seen, so I snapped a quick screenshot, knowing that such a thing would probably never happen again. It never has!

SKETCHPAGE: Origins.

Hello, dear Lewis Lifers!

  We've seen quite a bit of 'li'l guy' or 'Killer' or 'Li'l Killer' recently, so I thought that I would post the original sketch for him. I was playing around with watercolor and just filling pages with random doodles...and this came out. Often when I'm sketching characters I include a speech balloon or two that kind of sums up their character or their purpose- in this case, when I drew this cute little guy holding a mean looking axe, immediately he seemed very much like one of those paradoxical persons who look one way and act quite the opposite.

 Anyway, a little while later he lost his name (boring) and he gained some legs (because I decided I'd had enough legless personnel in my comic) and appeared here!

  (He's changed his look a little, but if you check out the first comic he looks quite a bit like the original sketch!)

    Killer Origin page.