02 Wednesday Dec 2020
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November has been a cruel month and I won’t mention it any longer. The reverb will echo in the lives of my family, and my extended family, for a long, long time.
A couple of weeks ago, I re-read twenty years worth of Peanuts Christmas comics, with many Wizard of Id and BC comics thrown into the mix. I even went back over my Calvin & Hobbes.
I wanted to capture a little of the Christmas magic they published in their art, unique to their characters, yet accountable to the season. Continue reading
18 Wednesday Nov 2020
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I finally bit the bullet and updated our Archive. It had been almost a year, which turned out to be a lot of comics. I learned several things in the process.
Our next comic will be #189. Continue reading
15 Sunday Nov 2020
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But… my Dad passed away today. It was a mercy, really, because he’s been gone for over a week now. I think he’s grateful that he wasn’t a Biden voter, and wanted to make *darn* sure of that.
He died in Christ. For those of you who don’t follow the Christian faith, this simply means that we believe he is in heaven, and as Codex & I are also professing Christians, we’ll see him again.
I’d imagine it’ll go something like this. Continue reading
06 Friday Nov 2020
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Well… let’s see. Everything is kinda going sideways.
So here’s the deal. The script called for “An angry crowd outside a typical Churchian house.” New scene, new architecture, normally this is in the category of “pain in the artichoke” but we wrote it while driving to Portland from Seattle on Sunday, and then back again. Continue reading
30 Friday Oct 2020
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29 Thursday Oct 2020
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The bad news is that we won’t have a comic for tomorrow. We’re up against a bunch of serious real-life stuff that we don’t want to talk about. What we do want to talk about is…
in actual paper and ebook formats!
Yes, we’ve started the process. We’re making no promises. Continue reading
24 Saturday Oct 2020
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So far I’m failing the daily challenge, but I’m winning at renewing my love of drawing for fun. See the original challenge at Cedar Sanderson’s blog (and do check out her books: like Lab Gremlins. It too, is made of win.)
So from Wednesday: Snapdragon (above), then Cat Accountants, which for some reason I wrote down as Owl Bits (??), Anteater (Nope), Trilobyte, Death, Beehive & Claymore.
21 Wednesday Oct 2020
Posted in Behind the Frames, Politics
Have you got a blog? A SocMedia account? Pass it on. Live free or die. ~ Codex.
In my 2019 book, The Social Media Upheaval, I warned that the Big Tech companies — especially social media giants like Facebook and Twitter — had grown into powerful monopolists, who were using their power over the national conversation to not only sell ads, but also to promote a political agenda. That was pretty obvious last year, but it was even more obvious last week, when Facebook and Twitter tried to black out the New York Post’s blockbuster report about emails found on a laptop abandoned by Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son Hunter. Continue reading
07 Wednesday Oct 2020
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From Cedar Sanderson’s blog comes a drawing challenge for InkTober with a delightful series of prompts. You can see the original at her blog. You can also follow her books on Amazon (I love her SF), and some more art here. This is supposed to be fun & recharge my batteries, I’ll be starting today with prompt #7. Feel free to join in! I’ll update every day (below the cut) with what I came up with.
This week’s prompts (Oct 7-13) are: harvest , lamppost, encourage, computer wizardry, kerfluffle, space, and woof. Updated: Lamppost, Encourage, computer wizardry, and space are beneath the cut.
23 Wednesday Sep 2020
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I found myself in a rare zen-like mental state yesterday and decided there were four levels of thinking exhibited by human beings today.
Tempest in a Teardrop: The Churchians 