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book title and cover design– rough but (finally!) final
It’s done. I’ve made a choice and locked it in. The Book’s title is Junkyard Moon, and its cover will look (sort of) like this:Eagle-eyed readers will notice that the central element of Iowa in the chair with Josef and … Continue reading
a wolf and a raven
The internet is back, after a small encounter with a thunderstorm, so let’s celebrate with a wolf and a raven. Taking a bit of a break today from the notebook mining project (it’ll be back tomorrow) to offer up something … Continue reading
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500th post– drawing of the day bonus
Back in April, I let the first anniversary of “a cartoonist in Kekionga” slip by without notice in the wider pattern of cartooning, blogging, and everyday life. So when the software told me this week that we were sneaking up … Continue reading
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best of the drawing of the day, week 57: octopod
This happy little guy is an octopod. Not an octopus, but a person with a very rare eight limbed body type. Ordinary people, of course, are almost always born as tetrapods, with four limbs. In the story world of the … Continue reading
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best of the drawing of the day– week 51: cat and rat
(Eagle eyed readers may have noticed that we are a week behind on the best of the drawing of the day. Don’t worry, if indeed that is a cause for worry. We’re catching up today.) Here’s the classic odd couple, … Continue reading
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tiny jack and iowa
More successful inks in their raw, uncorrected form:In the background of a panel, behind a hedge drawn with the stub pen, who do we see but tiny Jack and Iowa. This drawing, made with the F nib Lamy Safari with … Continue reading
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notes on werewolves
Spent a good chunk of the day inking the Professor in various stages of his transformation, and that got me thinking about our favorite werewolf librarian, and how werewolves work in Kekionga’s strand of the Knotted Rope. Frankly, Gideon was … Continue reading
april fool’s day in kekionga
This morning early arrivals in the Archives Department in the basement of the Noakes Library were greeted by this image. It was the new wallpaper on every PC and printouts covered every bulletin board.It’s a not-so-subtle dig at the boss, … Continue reading
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Tagged digital art, found art, internet, the knotted rope
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jack and the moondog
Rookie superhero Jack Swann and Professor Gideon Lykander, aka the Mighty Moondog, are being really quite adorable in this partially inked panel, raw and uncorrected, from page 15 of Moab. I’ve been inking for days, and I promised myself I … Continue reading
tumblr tuesday: anonymous animal inspiration
“L’animal anonyme” came across my dashboard today, and of course his enormous ears, vaguely snotty expression, and long wiggly tail reminded me instantly of Josef. Could I swipe that cool palm tree and the weird rock platform the Anonymous Animal … Continue reading
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