Half a Sunday
Here's half of the sunday I showed earlier when it was in black and white pieces. The other half with the punchline will appear on August 6.If you're compiling a list of the species that appear in Spot...
View ArticleTicking Down
This is a present just waiting to happen, for those of us who enjoy satire and August 29 birthdays.The Tick, the first season, minus one episode, release date: August 29.I haven't seen this cartoon in...
View ArticleWild Wild Patents
I should have commented on this sooner, because now I've forgotten the particulars. But in an early episode of Wild Wild West, Artemus Gordon presents James West with an invention: a rebreathable lung,...
View ArticleSkewed
When I writeSpot the Frog ideas, it helps to frame them in boxes from the start (other cartoonists might doodle ideas on a blank sheet.) The above fits on a regular sheet of bond paper. The panels are...
View ArticleThe Flag We Wear
As I write, I'm wearing boxer shorts, t-shirt, with mussed hair. There's a cat at my ankles. But here's the amazing thing: the above drawing isn't me.This might seem frivolous -- a fabric too thin to...
View ArticleCutting Edge
In the spirit of the retrofitted Star Trek episodes I mentioned earlier, here's a Spot daily from last week, burnished with the cutting-edge special effect of color (I understand that the latest...
View ArticleNotes on How I Drive and Read a Map
I don't know if this is typical of other comic strip writers, but I have a hard time steering from Point A to Point B in a storyline. It's like reading a map, considering every possible route --...
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