birds and zapatistas and artwork! oh my!

I spent Sunday drawing and watching the Broncos suck it yet again. The pictures below are the result. I'm still figuring out what exactly I was trying to convey with these - I've been thumbing through this old issue of Proceso that we brought back from Mexico on the Zapatistas, wanting to use the pictures in a project. So I cut up some cardboard, cut up some pictures, "highlighted" them with white-out, and then coated them in really diluted acrylic to tint them. And then I drew birds on them. Don't ask me what it means yet. It's just what needed to be done. The birds are, respectively, a cassowary, a purple swamphen, a marabou, and a grey heron.

inactive!

Haven't been around much the last month.

It's been kind of a long couple weeks. School has started again - which means I'm teaching regularly again, which eats up a lot more time than I had remembered - and I had a short period of complete and absolute hatred of children concurrent with the start of school, which is never a good confluence of events. This was followed by a extended bout of crippling self-doubt, and then my brother was shortly committed to an institution. All in all, a fantastic couple weeks.

Anyway. Here's some new stuff.

This is a picture I drew for my wife, who is currently in nursing school. I printed it out on sticker paper for her to decorate her copiously-filled notebooks with:

Also exciting is the possibility of doing regular (published!) cartooning again - I may be working on a series which documents various species of barfly - below is the first finished example, the Lonely Brow. Upcoming: The Midwestern Tufted Touchscreen Addict, The Ruffled Businessman, The Wild Secretary, and The Red-Cheeked False Bukowski. You will probably have to click on the drawing to read the monstrously small text if, in fact, you have any inclination to do so.