Driving a highway in Eastern Washington (Molly See)

Dancing Kitty

In honor of her second birthday I made my cousin Fiona a small painting of a dancing cat. It’s rendered in acrylic paint and sharpie. Happy Birthday little friend!

Not shown: The sides have little “Fi” lettering (her nickname).

Mystery mushroom

I found this white boletus on a hike this weekend. It doesn’t match anything in the four guidebooks I have. No, I’m not going to taste it.

Found in second-growth forest in southern Washington state, bare spot day after rain.

Four Postcards

My friend Amy suggested a postcard-swap project. I love postcards, especially ones with bad photographs of boring or weird stuff. But in this case I checked the USPS site for postcard size definitions and rates then cut out some stiff paper, drew some pictures, and colored them with crayons. Crayon is not the subtlest of media, but I like that you can cover large areas and that it’s not wet or finicky (though now I have little tiny wax bits on my scanner, ugh). Anyhow here’s what I drew.

“Today is Headache City” is another take on a sketch originally done for an (unfinished) arty coloring book project called “Where the Clothes Hide.”

Granpa Casey and Hitler’s Lair

My step-granpa, Donald “Casey” Schwarz, was with Patton’s army in WWII and an early visitor to Hitler’s “country house” in Austria after its capture by the Allies. I scanned a bunch of his photos.
Casey and “Hitler’s Lair”

Running Portuguese Roofing Tools Script

at least that’s what it looked like the MS Office SP1 updater said.

Mount Hood rescue comic

Long time no post. So been working on a lengthy project since the Spring, what looks to now be a 4-part comic telling the tale of a mountain rescue in 1963. My father and uncle are some of the characters in this true story. I’m posting pages 1-5 below. If you’re interested in purchasing a real print version of this Reading Frenzy in Portland has a some copies. It’s currently titled “Up Above” but I am still in the market for a better name. So comment away.

The Mole Vs. Blood Woman–in Color

A one-page jam comic from 4/3/93 by myself and Dr. Special. We took the time to color it.

From the archives of Michael Beattie (thanks, Mike!).

What will happen next? What is the spiky plant, and how will it help? Tune in sometime…actually Bill is visiting next week, so maybe we can do a twentieth anniversary sequel.

BTW one should check out Bill & his brother Clint’s precocious young cartooning efforts–Splat Comics.

Wait for John

First half of “Wait for John: a Tale of Horror.” This was done as an assignment on adaptation for the IPRC Comics program. Probably more backgrounds and redrawn figures and other corrections/improvements to come, but like how some of these worked out, especially the wood gathering page.

Magic Cat