I’ve done over 30 birthday cards for my daughter. I recently found this- the first picture I did for her birthday when, I think, she was three. It wasn’t a card, though; it was a framed pastel. The actual card had only one lizard on it and a poem/riddle that spelled out her name. The …
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The Vic
I was talking with an old friend over the holiday. We briefly compared notes about Thanksgiving at the Victorian Manor. Her restaurant. She’d done a web search for Maurice, the chef, and turned up this essay from my very old (early 2006) web space: At one time, this link loaded the Victorian Manor’s Web page. …
inktober 10-19
The balloon factory, from an old sketchbook, October 19, 2021
old reflection
Every now and then when I’m in an ambitious reflective mood I’ll launch an archive of my old work blog and scan through several posts. I guess I still wonder what happened. I know I’ll never figure it out. I found an old post from 2007 that I used to ask colleagues about false claims …
meter cheater, 1973
A bit silly to go to lengths to avoid paying nickles for parking, I readily admit. There was a challenge, though, and it was well met. This story was on the evening news then on the front page of the next morning’s paper. I was livid. How dare they! I wanted to storm the newspaper …
latin banquet
After my mother died, my brother and I had to find time to clean out the house we grew up in- an old three story, full-basement brick almost victorian home in Pottstown. Over that spring and summer we’d each take several days off to drive back to Pottstown hoping to clear out the junk. Instead, …
earth day, 1970
I originally ran this last year, on the fiftieth anniversary. I thought it deserved a retread. A student committee asked if I’d host the art room discussions about ecology. I was in the room practically all day anyway; it was my senior year and I spent all of my free periods working on art projects. …
rubbish bin
What do I do with piles of sketches? In books, in folders, laying loose. When I moved to Bellefonte six years ago, I cleared out what I thought was most of it, but I keep turning up more. flickr does an interesting job of aggregating the stuff- sizing the images I uploaded so they fit …
mccloud reading (old)
This re-post of my November 2010 Penn State blog features some of Scott McCloud’s work, just in case anyone misses the nature of the post. It’s a reaction to the NMR reading featuring a chapter of McCloud’s book, Understanding Comics. I took the first page from McCloud’s chapter “Time Frames” and inserted a two page …
old drawings for the Bellefonte balloon story
A friend visited recently and asked for some of the cards I had printed with balloon sketches on them. I’m just about out- it was only an experiment to see how they’d print. So I could be more up-to-date, I had to take out my sketchbook to show him some of the more recent (five …
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