Cartoonist in Residence - UPDATE

I just ran across this awesome bit of cartooning which explores the whole economic meltdown problem...

The Crisis of Capitalism

There are several others, all quite neat. I think Scott McCloud would be impressed. I was, anyway!

February 22, 2008

I don't know about you, but I've been finding my trips to the grocery store to be rather amazing these days. Those places are so full of color; such an array of marvelous packages, but so very little of it is fit for human consumption. I don't really think about it a great deal anymore; after all, I live in the land of Farm Markets, but even so, I do make regular trips to grocery stores. And nearly every time, I'll see a deal on the rack, some kind of salty snack or can of something tasty. And I know before I pick up the package that the label will amaze and astonish in a bad way. None of that stuff is food! --And you can see it in the people around you. Those who eat crap look terrible. Those who eat real food. . , they glow.

I like to glow.

(The msg and canola oil song) DUDE, WHO POISONED MY FOOD

July 15th, 2008,

This is one of my favorite (very) short little animations. Alan Watts is one of those modern day philosophers who I place in the same general category as Joseph Campbell and Ray Bradbury. Enjoy!

Alan Watts - Music as Life

July 2nd, 2008

"Where do you get your ideas?"

I've been asked this many times, and while many writers find the question understandably peculiar, I find it peculiar in a way which I really enjoy tackling because the answer is never quite the same. It's sort of an exploration of one's own mind, and I've always found this a fascinating exercise, usually because there always seems to be something new and interesting going on up there. --Often it involves a series of questions I am trying to find answers for, and when not doing that, my mental energy is spent following up on all the other little items in the world which fascinate me. There has always been a great host of them, and when the internet came along, that great host expanded dramatically. While much of what my mind produces is cobbled together from many different areas and thus takes a fair bit of effort to share with the world, every now and then I come across a diamond in the rough which I can simply hold up and say, "Hey! Check it out! A diamond!"

Well, having spent so many years with a website which I felt was sorely under-exploited for all its potential to communicate, I promised myself that when I performed my next massive overhaul, I would find some way to make a platform for those various items which have little or nothing to do with my comics, but everything to do with what fascinates and intrigues me. (--Which I suppose is directly and inextricably linked to everything I do in comics.)

So to start off with, I thought the first post I'd make in this area should be something appropriate to the whole subject of communication. This little gem is all about using the media to its fullest extent for all the right reasons. Ladies and gentlemen, --the gallant Bill Moyers offers a rousing keynote address at the 2008 National Conference for Media Reform. . .

Bill Moyers addresses NCMR 2008/a>