Social media might be be the collective ID of the human race, a nonstop stream of consciousness, with all the rabid raw anxieties that implies.
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Thoughts
Rambling observations of this and that:
Dec 052014
Recently, I found a cardboard box containing the artwork, and super-8 film spool of a movie I made in high school. A celluloid masterpiece called SPACE FLiK.
[READ MORE...]Mar 172014
I have recently been wrestling with re-learning how to draw. The loss of my former ability has led me to reflect on what drawing has meant to me in my 30 year career as a cartoonist, and how and why I came to be so interested in drawing in the first place. Back when I
[READ MORE...]Mar 162011
Lately, I can think of nothing else than the tragedy in Japan, a country where I spent many happy years but that is being tested to the limit right now. While it’s heart-breaking to look at the videos and photos of the terrifying scale of the destruction wrought by the Quake and Tsunami (and the
[READ MORE...]Jan 112011
On January 7th, 1991 I arrived in San Francisco and, a few days later, I showed up to work on what I thought would be an 8 month job at an animation studio called Colossal Pictures… I still cannot quite believe that THIS week marks my TWENTY YEAR anniversary of living and working here in
[READ MORE...]Oct 252009
Being the adventures of a small black cat in white underpants, and its pal the magical TV.
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I went back to my hometown, met up with 6 childhood friends, and 7 foolhardy middle-aged gits went on a back-breaking trek though the bush.
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Sony Trinitron TV set: Jan 2001-Jun 2009. This ballpoint sketch of my TV also accurately shows the level of clutter in but one tiny corner of my crummy apartment… and so it is with the clutter inside of my mind. Not long ago, when television broadcasting here in the Bay Area switched from analog to
[READ MORE...]Jun 092009
My Pop’s rough old hands, and their dirty yet delicate fingernails gently caressing a fancy drinking glass, say so much about the lovely man behind them.
[READ MORE...]Mar 282009
Last year, during a conversation about the delights of Mexican food (between Rhode, Ted and I), someone hit upon the idea for a TACO TRUCK CRAWL; an epic journey from taco stand to taco stand, in quest of the best Tacos. Many months later, the idea came to fruition, as a group of EIGHT of
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