This morning I just happened to stumble upon a great, archived radio expose’ about Louis Lunch in New Haven, a national treasure, that was a good, healthy walk from my old apartment (where I was drawing comics) in New Haven. If you listen to the story below (click on the link) you’ll learn that Louis […]

One of the great joys of drawing my strip has been meeting other artists online and helping them with their own work. Jason Curtis is someone whom I’ve never met and only knew through his art. I kept seeing his great images in my Facebook feed, and I eventually reached out to him to let […]

In the past when I’ve done interviews or talked to younger, aspiring artists there’s always a lot of discussion on “getting there” and how life, real life, is some how on hold until you “get there.” If someone were to ask me the secret to “surviving life” or how to make “the time go by […]

One snowy night, a group of Jazz musicians were on their way to a gig when their train broke down on the tracks. Rather than waiting for the train to restart, the musicians decided to hop off with their instruments and cases, and walk to the nearby town where they were performing. As they were […]

I just ran into my bestest buddy, hero, and cartooning-mentor Mike Peters at the airport in a totally random, freak occurrence, and it made me SO happy. – Moments like this are priceless.

A comic strip is a musing somewhere between a doodle and a letter. There’s no need for comic strip characters to be elaborate, animation-like images when all they really need to do is tell the truth. Ideally, drawing a comic strip character should be no more difficult than signing one’s name. If an artist has […]