Category Archives: Cartoons

Single panel cartoons

Christmas Past Remembered

With Christmas coming in a few days, I recalled this cartoon I had done while I was in graduate school. I did it on a whim, hence the very rough nature of it. When we were little, back in Michigan, … Continue reading

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An Early Cartoon Done in Photoshop

I don’t call myself an expert in Photoshop by any means. After all, just a few years ago, about all I could do was resize and save photos. So my early attempts at artwork of any sort in Photoshop were … Continue reading

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The Professor Tells Stories

I needed an illustration for my book on creating graphic novels (formerly known as Paper Movies), about storytelling and our original impulses in that activity. So the following rather simplistic illustration resulted. I have to admit that I am getting … Continue reading

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ViaDuck’s First Strip

I needed a graphic for Paper Movies that would illustrate how something can happen between panels, “in the gutters” as the saying goes. Something simple and uncomplicated. So I turned to ViaDuck and gave him something to do. ViaDuck in … Continue reading

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Meet the Professor

As I work on a writing project about creating graphic novels, I needed to create a graphic persona who will help explain things. On the TV show CSI , I and some friends used to call Captain Brass “Captain Exposition”, … Continue reading

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ViaDuck and the Gallery test

I’m testing how the new Gallery Management plug-in works. Because I’m an utter newb with it. Related Images:

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An Archer-Artist Strikes Back

If you enjoy Archery, particularly if you shoot, and you enjoy comic books (or other popular entertainment), it can be very frustrating to see some depictions of “archers.” When a comics fan who is an archer complains that the poses … Continue reading

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Meet ViaDuck

I had posted this on my Facebook page, but he needed to be uploaded here. Especially since I’m planning to do occasional cartoons with him. Meet ViaDuck – the worlds fastest duck super-hero! This is a very, very rough first … Continue reading

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Sakai Usagi

So, this is a photo of the finished piece of Stan Sakai as his ronin rabbit Usagi Yojimbo. It was rather fun to do. Once I started doing the light shading, I realize the more realistic approach just wasn’t going to … Continue reading

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