MADly rejected – Fight to the finish

 

Once again, another idea rejected by MAD (I assume) because 14-year old boys couldn’t care less about the subject matter.

Really, can you blame them?

Journey to the center of my sketchbook – This little piggy…

 

The Deapartment of Me

Scott Nickel and I shared some space in the most recent Stay Tooned magazine for their “MAD issue” and now he was nice enough to have me be part of his weekly “20 questions” feature on his “A Nickel’s Worth” site.

What I’m reading this week – (That’s a good question)

 

I read a graphic novel collection of this in the library and, really, I could barely follow it.

 

Thursday is the new Sunday – Match game

 

The Sunday strip rerunning on Gocomics.com today is a bit sad – I feel bad for the woman – but at least Bo was able to help her.

The drop panel above features a accessorised sideways “head peak”

Studio stuff – Miscellaneous

More “wacky stuff” in my studio. From left to right: An original cartoon from my friend, the late, great Ford Button (his wife gave me it as a wedding gift), an old magazine ad with three comic strip guys – Al Capp (Lil Abner), Milt Caniff (Steve Canyon) and Walt Kelly (Pogo) – pimping Sheaffer fountain pens (from my friend Sue), a mug with a Ford cartoon holding a bunch of his pens, a tin of Tuxedo Crabmeat*, a tiki man from my friend Chuck (a tribute to our favorite band, Deadbolt)**, an original oil painting…from the Dollar Store***, a shellaced piece of coal from the Pennsylvanian mines my grandfather worked in, a bottle of beer with a label done by Dave Covery of Speed Bump fame. On the side of the bookcase you can see part of calendar from a local Mexican store. The illustration looks like it’s from an Aztec-y romance novel.

* This was a famous item I had in my cubicle at my last job. The label has a great cartoon of a crab in a tuxedo with monocle on one of his eye stalks. The other reason I had it is because it was from the Dollar Store…and the concept of buying seafood at a discount store was just fascinating.

** He bought it in Hawaii…in a Walmart, because he couldn’t find a “real” one in a more “authentic” store. He had to glue on the eyes himself.

*** Yes, I know these were painted in China, probably in a sweatshop and that is indeed horrifying but, once again, I was fascinated by the ability to buy an original painting at the Dollar Store. (I bought a stack of these that I gave to friends. Might have one or two extras left.)

Department of Ooops

Super fan Dorian pointed out that there is a spectacular mistake in the strip on Gocomics.com today. Take a peek at it. Go ahead, I’ll wait.

(Emoticon of me whistling.)

Did you see it? (You’re disqualified if you read down to the comments since the answer is there.)

Journey to the center of my sketchbook – Space, the final frontier

MADly rejected – A horse is a horse…

 

I proposed this piece just after the crazy amount “national mourning” that accompanied the death of that champion horse Barbaro a few years.

I figure that MAD passed because 14-year-old boys don’t really care about the Kentucky Derby and the like.

What I’m reading this week – The right stuff

I found this in a $5 bin in my local super market…in the freezer section. Believe it or not.