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Another Kind of Likeness


Drawn and read from right to left, lower row to upper row.  Process: On a blackboard above a flower I saw it said “Yulija loves Hector.” I encircled the words in a word balloon, a talking flower. Next to it, delighting in love, a bee says “Hooray.” At the other end of the bee a

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yet another closed eye drawing

This is the point in Freeman’s story where the doctor is taken hostage by the mental patient (please note hospital gown open in back.)

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Carnival Kings


This is one my favorite messy, unfunny cartoons. I drew it as a note to remember something I read in Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World.  I won’t tell you what it refers to, either you read the book and you know or you should read the book.  It is a great book!

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Carnival cartoons


This is a follow up to my previous post about Bakhtin’s book Rabelais and His World  here Puck is applying love potion to a fortunate dreamer.  Below is an image of the play within the play, which I always associate with Puck’s secret visits, probably because both shapes occur in MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM.  Both these

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dejected swan


Still unearthing a bunch of old work as a result of producing the dummy haiku book with Freeman. This started life as a diner placemat drawing in brown crayon. The full picture was of a large angry looking woman standing over the swan with her fists curled.  I copied the swan part and finished it

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Playing Catchup: black and white samples (8)

I just sent Freeman a bunch of black and white images for the dummy of the Haiku Diem book. Mostly stuff from my sketchbooks. I figured I’d share some here to make up for my total lack of posts this week. 

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Ketchup or Catsup: preference in Black and White (5)


Again, I just sent Freeman a bunch of black and white samples of my work for a print dummy. I’m illustrating his haiku and we’re seeing what some different styles look like in print.  I’m posting a few  I sent to make up for a week without posts.   None of the ones I’ve chosen so

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