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Ooo! We Were Scary, Boys & Girls!
Above: See me in all my cadavrous monstrosity being brought involuntarily back to life by mad scientist Ed Sedarbaum as onlookers quake in horror. What do North Adamsers do for ghoulish entertainment...
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Building a Magazine Cover
The Fall 2006 issue of UAB Public Health (Formerly The Handle) came out a few weeks ago, with my cartoon art splashed all over its front cover. While I was working on the drawing several months ago I...
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Coming Up For Air
Some of you may suspect that I've lost interest in maintaining this blog, considering that two full weeks of silence have passed since my last post. Some of you may even feel that diminished interest...
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The Lady from Paradise Island
I don't get that many chances to draw iconic mainstream comic book characters without having to worry that some humorless industry lawyer may be lurking nearby looking to make a pinch for copyright...
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Stopover in Italy
Having fine-tuned their Spanish during the last couple of years, thanks to the two-part La Cupula translations of Wendel All Together, my Wendel characters have been practicing their Italian of late....
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A Public Display of Affection
Avert your gaze, ye enemies of sentiment! Today is Eddie's birthday and I am giving him a public kiss. The last word hasn't yet been spoken on the fate of same-sex marriages in Massachusetts, but at...
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Learning and Teaching
For once I had the presence of mind to come away from one of my forays into academia with an informal class shapshot. Seen above from left to right: there's Toby; Aaron; Kim; Amber; Zac (standing...
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With Apologies to George Herriman
Shall I take a moment to share my 1978 spoof of one of the greatest comic strips ever? NOTE TO LOVERS OF THE HERRIMAN ORIGINAL: My parodic juices tend to get stirred solely when my target are works I...
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Getting Weird With St. Nick
For its most recent three issues an alternative weekly in my home town of Birmingham has been showcasing a bent Christmas tale about a world overrun with weirdly twisted Santas and more Christmases...
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Toland Goes To College
From time to time I receive email from college teachers who are using my graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby as a classroom text. Sometimes their students write me, too. This sort of attention is hugely...
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My Winding Road's Spanish Detour
Before I leave the topic of Stuck Rubber Baby (see my previous blog entry), I should thank the Spanish comics newsmagazine Dolmen for devoting more than four pages of its October issue (#129) to a...
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Two Portraits
Once in a blue moon an opportunity arises for me to do a portrait. (I mean, one that other people besides Eddie see.) A couple of those blue-moon occasions have arisen since we relocated to New...
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Party Time in Birmingham
It's always fun to put together self-promotional montages like the one above, in which assorted characters from odd corners of my professional life come creeping out of the woodwork to party. In times...
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Cartooning Dean Bridgers (Part 1 of 2)
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