Sunday, November 20, 2022

Organ Donor

Suburban street. a paramedic kneels next to a pumpkin sprawled on its back, legs sticking up in the air. the neighbors stand around watching. emergeny vehicles are parked at the curb. one has a big red cross and a picture of a pie on the side. a person dressed all in white with a chef's toque on their head walks up to the fallen pumpkin, holding a cooler chest with a red cross on it in one hand, and a saw in the othe hand. they say, "is this the organ donor?"

 

Sunday, November 13, 2022

"Glow" 18

single page of graphic novel shows vilnius underwater, heavy rain, rising floods, people using a dresser as a boat, the belltower reflecting off the lake of floodwaters, and our protagonist slogging through rain and mud and floods, thinking about the glowing object she found and lost. ends with a birds-eye view long shot of vilnius under a direct rainshower, everything is blurred and pastel colored, and the river gleams silver as it courses through the forest and town.
page 18 of Glow


 "Glow" - page 18 of a 24-page graphic story.

Sunday, November 06, 2022

Cover Art for Short Story Anthologies

 Every year we publish an anthology of short stories by readers at the newssite fark.com.  I help edit it, and I do the artwork as well. Here is some of my favorite work from over the last 5 years.

Steamboat/Riverboat Casino theme for 2019


an element from every story in the anthology is shown being dragged into the wormhole - holy smokes, we had a story about a virus the very year before Covid 19 broke out!  should we feel guilty?

Mystery - woodcut style illustration of Magyck the goat dressed as a victorian detective, smoking a pipe, standing beneath a tall streetlamp, walking stick in his other hand.
each year the antho is divided into 4 genres. Majyck the goat, a character in one of our first stories (by Brian Bander)  has become our unofficial mascot.  This year we opted for woodcut-style illustrations. here he is as a victorian detective, for our Mystery genre.

Magyck the goat as woodcut illustration of a dancing skeleton
Magyck the goat as woodcut illustration of a dancing skeleton for the Horror genre

magyck the goat as a medieval woodcut of a sea monster
magyck the goat as a medieval woodcut of a sea monster for the Fantasy tab

Magyck the goat crossed with a chicken eating a banana - obviously for the comedy section!

The squirrel is our other mascot. better not to ask.  But he has a penchant for sitting on slatted chairs.
 

yup. you're gonna need help pretty soon, squirrel.  this is from 2021, the year we all stayed home (if we were very lucky) and read books while death stalked the streets.

2020. the year the Plague hit.  Our sympathies to those who lost loved ones.


Majik makes us feel better, even when eating priceless antique manuscripts.


Wednesday, November 02, 2022

The Little Prince and the Queen

a small ripoff of the great Antoine de Saint Exupery. Just a gift for some friends:  a couple whose travel photos included one picture of him as a long-haired youth wandering the sere lands of central Asia. happy and burned, and lots of photos of her sitting at a table alone smiling at some exotic breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner, snack. Presumably he joined her after taking the photo.
 

Sunday, October 30, 2022

Halloween swap meet

dog and cat dressed in costumes, going through their halloween candy.

 

Saturday, October 29, 2022

Pumpkin Pineapple

two pumpkins. one has a spiky green headdress and crosshatch marks on its face so that it looks like a pumpkin. the other pumpkin says, "Ha! great costume!"

 

Saturday, October 15, 2022

Scary News

Night time. A mummy and tentatcled monster sit on a park bench in a pool of light. The tentacled 3-eyed monster is eating a blueberry muffin and holding a cup of to-go coffee. the mummy is reading a news paper, and says, "I just can't come up with anything scarier than this stuff."

 

Monday, October 10, 2022

Indigenous People's Day

A car driving into Bkejwanong Territory. one person says "what 's the right way to greet someone from a first nation?" The other person answers, "Try 'hello.'"

 

Sunday, October 09, 2022

Normal costume? What's that?

 

 

Saturday, September 10, 2022

4 Types of Videoconference Users

Camera Savvy (perfect hair, clothes, lighting, props). Distracted (children wandering into the study, crying). Clueless (super closeup of an eyeball, someone shouting "hello!"). Forgetful (someone briskly picking their nose while on camera).

 

Sunday, August 21, 2022

Do Sharks Have a 30-Second Rule?

two sharks in the deep blue ocean. one has a human foot sticking out of its mouth. the other shark says, "Don't eat that. You have no idea where it's been!"

 

Saturday, August 13, 2022

Interview with a Mayfly

business setting. Mayfly sitting in an office chair. person behind desk writing in folder, says, "So, Ms. Mayfly, where do you see yourself in five years?"

 

Tuesday, August 09, 2022

Interview with a Caterpillar

a woman in a wheelchair is interviewing a large black and yellow caterpillar in a business office in a high-rise building. the caterpillar stares at her as she asks, "To tell me, what do you hope to achieve this year?"

 

Saturday, August 06, 2022

Land Shark

a rocky asteroid in deep space. astronauts have landed and are reading an engraved sign on a boulder. the plain behind them is littered with smaller boulders, rocks, pebbles, scree. one astronaut holds up a device to the sign, and says, "wait, ok, i've got it. it says, 'beware...land...shark.'" a triangle that could be a rock but isn't is cuttin across the surface of the ground towards them.

 

Sunday, July 31, 2022

Hot & Cold

A couple in pajamas, brushing their teeth. (the cat is also brushing its teeth). Frame 2: they are all asleep, the ceiling fan whirling above them. Frame 3: she opens her eyes, glares at the fan. Frame 3: muttering curses, she pulls on a sweater. Frame 4: she continues to shiver. Frame 5: more curses, she gets out of bed, and retrieves something from a bureau drawer. Frame 7: she jams a knitted cap on her head. Frame 8: she's under all the blankets when he sits up in bed and turns off the fan with a "click." last frame: he continues to sleep comfortably while she heats up, flames shooting out from her sweater collar and under her cap, her face flushed red with overheating..

 

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