Scientificly [sic] validated, is indeed true. (So is us having issues with the proper operation of the thing.)

I didn't know what I was going to draw, so I thought I'd start by drawing Coyote and Raven and see what they had to say. And then I drew the ground line in the wrong place. So I thought I'd add action lines and see where that took me.

No, no, you're right - it doesn't make a lick of sense. But I am full of noodles.

I actually had to stop the chair to draw the cartoon - it was too wiggly.

Ripped from our real lives, this cartoon is. I wish I could draw people, because Erica is a lot prettier than that.

I shouldn't point it out, because you probably haven't noticed (I didn't) but I used to color in Raven by hand and then I switched to doing it in post in Photoshop and then (oh, the horror) I forgot to color him in the last few times. Oops. Here he is restored to his rightful hue.

I saw a review of Adventures in Cartooning: How to Turn Your Doodles Into Comics on BoingBoing and thought it would be a good primer for my current cartoon project. It turns out it's all stuff I already know, but it would be a great book for a kid who's interesting in cartooning. The information is presented in an engaging narrative about a knight trying to rescue a princess from a dragon.

FuzzyCo grade: A

All I know about Wife Swap is from the clips they show on The Soup, but from that little information, this seems accurate.

When we arrived in Phoenix on Thursday, everyone was apologizing that it was so cold -- it had gotten down to 70° or so. Hahaha. Yeah, it might snow tonight in Chicago. Whee!

This is what we call "topical" if we're feeling generous, or "in-joke" if we're not. I was at the Phoenix Improv Festival all weekend. What the phoenix is saying there is a repeated line from the Mail Order Bride show on Friday. Oh, if you had been there how clever this all would seem.

(You'll probably need to see a larger view to read the scintillating dialogue.)

I just read Adventures in Cartooning and I had all the "no electronic devices" time on the plane to Phoenix so I decided to play around with a narrative and time jumps. Definitely file this one under "experimenting with the form" rather than "trying to entertain you".

Hey, I'm in Arizona for the Phoenix Improv Festival this weekend. You can see me tonight sitting in with the Phoenix Neutrino Project (in just a few hours) or tomorrow night with my improv duo Bare.

Cartoon fans (both of you) - I'm drawing my cartoons, but I'm going to wait until I get back to scan them in.

That's real life up there on the page, people.

I've been walking a line with these cartoons where I don't want to make excuses ("I'm just learning!" etc) but the point of the exercise is that I am learning as I go, and so I want to be honest about places I feel shaky. So, you know, Pig looks a little sadder in that second panel than I think I meant for him to. And maybe that last word balloon could be a little more interupty somehow. Maybe it should just be "Over Here!"?

I have not been feeling well lately. Good thing I only have two shows in two different states this week.

I'm having fun with these guys.

So Melissa's neighbor keeps accusing Melissa's dog of stealing her shoes off her back porch and I said, "how does she know it's your dog, it might just be a squirrel who wants a charming chapeau." Or, I realized, Coyote.

I had a cartoon first this week - a request, from a certain young relative of mine. This is not that request, but it inspired it. I do believe in Tinkerhooks, I do!