99 Doodles 14: Grave Hurdle
99 Doodles 14: Grave Hurdle
November 2008
While you were out
Just something I drew for someone, in a wonkier style than usual due to exhaustion.
Harvest Tour Reports
Over at Trees & Hills, Daniel Barlow describes our excellent trip to the Boston Zine Fair (and includes photos!), and I report on the Winchester Pickle Festival (with a sketch because I don’t use a camera). I’ll post about my trip to the Philly Zine Fest soon, and post more Doodles (I’m behind in my scanning).
Purchase SEEDS online!
I am making a slight change to the way I update this site. For a while now, I have been posting comics and/or news on Mondays, and installments of 99 Doodles on Thursdays. This worked pretty nicely, but I now hope to take the slightly harder path of posting comics every Monday, and news or Doodles on Thursdays, to give the comics the priority they deserve – starting next week. Today we have news!
At long last, Seeds is in stock at Trees & Hills Comics Distro! Themed around FOOD with an emphasis on its social aspects, the latest Trees & Hills anthology comes with a booklet of cartoonists’ favorite recipes and a packet of organic lettuce seeds from High Mowing Farm in Vermont, all wrapped in an earthy brown cover with a red apple print (an organic heirloom apple from a local farmer’s market, of course). I co-edited, contributed a 4-page comic (sample here), and wrote the afterword. We’re especially proud of this one, and it has been selling like hotcakes (appropriately enough). We are pretty sure the initial printing will be sold out by year’s end (!), so get your copy while the getting is good! Makes an excellent gift.
Before Sleep #3
Before Sleep #3 – More of the doggerel, abstractitude, silliness, & surreality you’ve come to love in these sketchbook comics. “There are a lot of really original ideas … plus a lot of LIFE!” – Alec Longstreth. “I love BS#3!” – Marek Bennett.
5.5″ x 4.25″, 32 pgs. Out of Print |
Thanksgiving Through The Years
Transcript
Thanksgiving Through the Years
A Wamponaog adult tells a child, “We give thanks to these plants and animals who gave their lives so we may live…” Unnoticed in the background, Pilgrims appear on the horizon.
A white American man says Thankgiving grace: “We give thanks for this food to the Big Sky-Daddy who so kindly depopulated this great land for us…” Their eyes closed, none of the family yet sees the giant flying saucers in the sky outside the window.
A huge potbellied alien with spindly limbs plucks a human from a jar and says, “We give thanks to Zlarx for these delectable beings (who are also such versatile slaves)…” (“Help!” cries the human in its tiny voice.)
Notes
This month I was so busy and tired that I couldn’t bring myself to do a strip that required research, so I redrew a seasonal strip from the Keene Free Comics days. I think the new strip is clearer, but I still drew the human too small in the last panel! C’est la vie. I will have to fill in November’s Great Moments In Nuclear History at a later date.
Get this strip as part of Square Dance #4.