I hate when that happens!

My first attempt at a New Yorker style cartoon. 

Hitting the streets of DC this weekend!

The 10th issue of Magic Bullet is hitting the streets this weekend. Look at that beautiful cover by Matt Dembicki with the return of Dr Dremo!

Here is a preview of the strip I created for this issue. A bit timely. I had another idea for a strip and was in the process of working on that when the attack on Charlie Hebdo happened which prompted me to create an entirely different strip 24 hours before the deadline.

Look for it at all the cool places in DC. I'll have a listing of where to get Magic Bullet posted soon.

Those were different times.

I'm currently reading through the Fantagraphics collection of the early Floyd Gottfredson Mickey Mouse strips and just had to laugh at this one panel of Mickey about to go postal. Mickey Mouse was certainly a very different character in those early days.

Love is always stronger than hate!

Ruben Bolling's Tom the Dancing Bug Charlie Hebdo cartoon is brilliant. 

You can view the entire strip here.

Bloom County redux!

I've been reading the Bloom County Library collection from IDW recently and enjoying it quite a bit. It reprints ALL of the Bloom County strips, many of which have never been included in any collection before. Bloom County, while some of the strips are indeed timeless, is very much a product of the 1980's. So much so that the IDW collection has annotations telling readers who various celebrities are that might go over the heads of readers who didn't grow up in that era.

Anyhoo, I noticed a discernible difference between a strip from the 1983 "Loose Tails" collection from Little Brown (top strip) and the same strip (on the bottom) collected by IDW in 2009. I refer specifically to the first panel of both versions of the strip. I am guessing the tamer version was the one that ran in newspapers and the saltier version was what Breathed wanted to go with but changed by the syndicate and eventually printed in the 1983 collection.

Some days, I get the best mail!

 Every year I draw a cartoon for Airbeat magazine for ALEA's  (Airbourne Law Enforcement Association) Aircrew of the Year Award. These strips chronicle the rescue an air crew has performed that earned them the award. This year the award went to the United States Park Police aircrew led by Kenneth Burchell who bravely airlifted several people to safety during the Navy Yard shootings. Sgt. Burchell sent me a lovely email thanking me for the strip and telling me how exciting it was to see himself in a comic strip portrayed as the hero. Sgt. Burchell, the honor was mine and I salute you.

 

As a bonus, I have posted the ALEA strip before I added the text- mainly because I was really proud of those clouds I painted in Photoshop. This was the first time I had attempted to do clouds using the paint tools in Photoshop and really liked how they came out  Eventually, however, they became obscured by the text. Comics DC reprinted this on their blog and shortly afterward Navy History Matters magazine reprinted it as well. My work is now in the annals of Navy History. Wild.

On free speech and those Charlie Hebdo cartoons....

So this happened today. Pretty cool!