I started drawing the “Watson” comic strip in 2005, shortly after we got our new puppy – the “real” Watson – in Lewiston, Maine. In 2007, although I wasn’t a “tech whiz” I bought the domain WastonStrip.com, started posting strips weekly, and started selling all my weird Watson products. From 2005 – 2010, Watson was […]
Read MoreThere’s been a lot of this going around on Facebook lately, so I thought it might be fun to put one of these together. This is actually a picture of Watson from 2006, but it’s an older image that I had on-hand. I fudged a little bit.
Read MoreI’ve been TOTALLY WRONG about how long I’ve been publishing “WATSON.” As it turns out, I’ve been drawing Watson for 13 years, not 9. I just found a whole bunch of old stuff – old website stuff and syndicate samples – that totally jogged my memory. I just remembered that I came up with the […]
Read MoreAs a kid, there was very little information for me out in the world on how to “become” a cartoonist. Sure, you could look at comic collections to see how characters looked, but that was about it. In 1988, CBS ran this Garfield 10th birthday special, which I taped on our VCR off the television. […]
Read MoreIf I had to guess, I think I’ve been drawing weird, one-panel strips for about 25 years. As memory serves, I first started drawing my one-panel strips when I was a sophomore in high school, which would’ve been sometime around 1991. Naturally, I’d been drawing comics and doodling in sketch books my entire life, but […]
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