Here's hoping this works.

For some reason one can't enlarge the comics in my last posting....curious, because I did nothing different. I will re-post them and see what happens.

here's two more comics. In the one with the giant colourful balloon heads, I was playing with some watercolour pencils that were in an art room I was subbing. I don't think I like them, they didn't blend very well. I suppose you're supposed to see the pencil marks for the "artsy effect". Anyway, I doodled on the page to wrest it from the flames, I guess. it's inspired by this little house on Grovesner road that colin and I did a drive by of...( drive by seems the wrong word) well we new it was for rent, and checked it out. even though the neighborhood is really....quaint.....it seems ideal to have a half acre lot with a cracky garage and a cracky empty lot next door. good ole cracky shack. some day you will be mine.

So, dear readers, I've been away on Christmas vacation, exploring the big city of New York. I came back feeling inspired and cowed by the craziness. I was also intimidated by the fact that any drawing I do would have to have tonnes of Katsuhiro Otomo style buildings in it....every vista looked like a panel out of pre-disaster Akira comics. Here is the comic from just before we left....I know it says NOV in the corner with no date, and part of the events happenend in mid november, but the real date for this should be DEC 6th!

And here is the first comic I finished about our Christmas in NYC. Mostly we did anecdotal little doodles and such. This comic started with me drawing colin , (bottom left) wearing this hairband I bought in union sqare. it was olive green and matched his sweater, but it had pink bunnies on it. he wore it all day long, out in public, for a couple of days. I said it was his new york baddass look. After I drew him, he drew me wearing these fake Tom cruise ray ban sunglasses I bought. I don't smoke, by the way, it's just for looks, so stop freaking out. We finished it off with Colin's sister Eleanor, just loooking baddass, since she's always a NYC baddass. Eleanor suggested we add their mom looking really nervous, so Colin drew Evelyn in the background and the city scape behind us. she wore this red outfit every day so we could find her in a crowd. There you go, two comics, you slathering Jackals!!

again I am one month behind. well, if it's any consolation, I worked extry hard on this one.

this comic is a good couple of weeks late but, meh.

my latest "for money" drawing....a t-shirt design for my best customers, the handsome and talented Hotel Lobbyists. they're playing a show tommorow night at the railway if you're in the neighborhood!

I just got back from a whirlwind trip to montreal for my Nonno and Nonna's 60th anniversary. On our first night there I went to the bar with my lovely sibs and got a boozy idea for them to draw my strip for me, so, this comic was guest drawn by my brothers Brian and Paul, and Brian's Wife, Cara.

Yah, money for my talents.

I had two comics done at the same time because I'm back in the classroom again. you'd think I would have LESS time, but no.
I've met my share of "celebrities" working the counter at Bennys, but never an A list one. especially not one that I would actually be exited to meet. to see Scarlett's ethereal glow better, remember you can click on the image to blow it up "Larger than Life"....

Ah...montreal....

I dyed my hair blond with pink roots at the beginning of the summer, so that's why my hair is different in these last two comics....it doesn't translate very well in black and white. Now that school is starting up again I unfortunately had to change my hair back, but I also, the monotony of sitting in a classroom should bring forth more cartooons.....

This is the latest.,,,..er, the fourth peice to come out of The new C+C Drawing Factory! C being Carina and Colin....this was was basically just colin, however. he started drawing it and enjoyed doing it so much that he basically did the whole thing in a couple hours and I facilitated it. and I drew some of the stuff but nothing special. still, nifty eh? ooh yeah, come to the show.

Here is the Ad I've been working on, for the Cafe I work in. This is one of the reasons I haven't been updating this site...

yay!! It's July 1st post! I do have a couple of comics in a holding pattern, don't worry. I have been busy working on a poster and an ad.

Bonus comic from july 7th.....drawn entirely entoxicated at a party in 1000 Parker art studios...it discusses the bike ride Andria, Brenda and I took from my house in kits to the party, and Brenda added a bike or two.....

Yeah...unm.... the date for this comic should be June 15th. yep. over two weeks ago. I think it was becasue I wasn't bored out of my skull in a classroom all day. except for this day, this day was mega fun. yep. thanks to colin for doing the greys, thats how anxious I was to finish this.

I always romanticised Chalk boards, but I realise now the complete supiriiority of white boards.

here's my take on the whole lego tower situation.

Just to shake it up a bit, this is a comic drawn by my dear Colin, about a tower of lego he made the weekend of may 11th. Dang that lego tower was something to see!! it was about 8 feet tall by the end of it. enjoy.

now I encourage you all to try and say "solenodon" aloud...it's not as easy as it looks. It's also a buggar to remember later

I forgot to put the date on this one, but it all happened in the last two weeks of march...lets call this one March 20th. I was enlisted to help Christine put up one of those ikea shelves that just floats on the wall like a rectangle. I don't like them, I can't trust a shelf that has no visible brackets. Sure enough, hillarious hijinks ensued. ironically, after christine spent several weeks with a gaping hole in her wall (not very well translated as the chunk of wall hanging off the drill bit in the second to last panel) I hung up the same kind of shelf at Andria's apartment and it went up as smooth as butter. if I was more technically literate I would put up a hypertext link to the shelf on the Ikea website, but I'm not.

perspective perspective perspective.

I told you I had three strips on the go.

this post has been done for days now, only I had to sit down and copy in the Gurmuki. It says, "Okay! what is your name? good! Hello!" then it sez "my name is henry! Camel!" the next panel sez, "I don't know, but I really like the corn on the cob here, the food here is the tastiest!"

I am trying to branch out here and do some perspective-y scenes....it ain't bad but it sure ain't no Winsor McCay.
I am also trying to work on my solid blacks....also If you are wondering if I died..I have three partially finished comics on the go.

I drew this one on the job

I realise now, I have been doing this comic for one year! another accomplishment for me, happy day!

part two of the great fire of 2007

well it's just been a great start to 2007.....

carla vehemently denies kissing anyone that night. It was the last thing I remember before everything went black.

UPDATE: Brenda is now dating the 7 foot tall fellow...who has a name: Steve

this post was for dec 20. not quite a month late....

I've finally finished my three weeks of slave labor at the bakery. Alex told me I should be a baker...yeah, and I want to get up at 4 am and work 12 hour days full of back injuries, and never look forward to christmas again. yet, it was still fun.

colin mentioned that my last comics were all about my car it seems.

OKay, this comic is really old. I mean, like three weeks old. I am profoundly sorry that you keep clicking on the link and the same picture keeps coming up over and over. I know. I hate that. My excuse is that I like to work on my comic in coffee shops, and I need to get out more. blame it on the freaky deaky weather. blame global warming.

THis cartoon is a little old, it actually happened on october 15th or 16th but I told the lads I would grace them with their presence in my cartoon. an honor, really. I take requests.

after I had 4 or 5 pints at this rock show, I drew this cartoon as a birthday greeting to steve.....

some of you have been harrasing me for photos of my halloween costume...this is as good as I could do.

when are you going to email those pictures to me christine???

sorry about the delay in cartoons....I have been distracted by halloween, the best day of the year!!!