Beating A Dead Horse

Here's this week's I Love Television illustration, as seen in the Portland Mercury.

Leave Our Fair Nation

Here's another of my absurd short story covers from the early 80s. This one begins: And so it was, that every day, while the other four old gentlemen made copies of their wallets and hands in the post office lobby, ex-tax collector and grey-whiskered troublemaker, Frank Middlesex, sat and watched for cars.

He Are What You Eat

Here's one of my illustrations appearing in this week's Seattle Weekly.

Let's Do It Again, Pierre!

Here's the cover to another recent picture book proposal, yet to find a publisher.

A Linear Concoction

I think this qualifies as a doodle. I'm not exactly sure just what a “doodle” is.

Play Ball!

With baseball season just around the corner, I thought this detail from an earlier painting might be appropriate.

Fisherman's Blues (in Reds and Greens)

Here's another of my imaginary gouache portraits.

The Ghost and the Gavel

Here's this week's I Love Television illustration, as seen in the Portland Mercury.

Potato Touchdown

Here's an illustration that appears in this week's Seattle Weekly.

Roland in Australia, Part Three

Here's a detail from a page of my improvised picture novel from 1984, Roland in Australia. You can see the first thirty pages by clicking here.

Of Hearts and Devils and Negligees

Here's a detail from a recent painting, a study concerning a myriad of potent human emotions.

On Being Stung

This was originally meant to be the back cover to the fifth issue of my Fantagraphics quarterly, Whotnot!, a comic that would have been published in the winter of 1994, if the series hadn't been cancelled. It portrays my first serious incident with a bee sting, one in which my undiagnosed allergy did a very good job of letting me know it could well kill me. Yes, I now carry epinephrine.

Cartoonist in a Graveyard

Here's another cover appearance I made back in 1998, for my one-man show If I Died Right Now, this one for Seattle Weekly's entertainment section, photographed by Brandon Harmon. For a more complete look at this show, click here.

A Portrait of the Painter

Here's a gouache painting I made as a gift a few years ago.

Cookies For The Master Race

Here's this week's totally Nazi-fied, All-American I Love Television illustration, as seen in the Portland Mercury.

Boeing Takes The Sky Bridge

You'll find this illustration, concerning a crumbling roadway to Seattle's Boeing Field plant, in this week's Seattle Weekly.

Dead Cartoonist Working

Here's an object from the past that I was reminded of just yesterday, the cover to Seattle's alternative newsweekly The Stranger, from February, 2008, heralding the opening of my one-man show “If I Died Right Now”, an ironic posthumous presentation of my artistic career. The image, meant to evoke old publicity photos of famous twentieth century cartoonists, was art directed by Dale Yarger and photographed by Brandon Harmon. For a much more complete look at this event, featuring many artifacts, including testimonials from fellow cartoonists like Rick Altergott, James Sturm, Pat Moriarity and Jim Blanchard, as well as writer Chelsea Cain and musican John Ramberg, click here.