Brian Moore's Sketchblog

Another detail from a recent painting.

Here's a detail of the painting currently on my desk. The angle is a bit wonky due to my camera's wide-angle lens. At least I hope my perspective is better than that. Oh crap.

My comic strip for the local paper, May 31, 1987. If I remember correctly, they paid me $5 for each editorial cartoon and ran the strip as a sort of bonus in lieu of pay. I would walk the two blocks to the storefront newspaper office and drop off the art. Inside I got my first glimpses of Mac (Classic) desktops, the paste-up room with those hot wax adhesive dispensers, 10" floppy discs, and a photo darkroom. When I left each time I would catch a small, fleet dinosaur and ride that back home. Then we would eat it.

Don't think I've shown this here before ... from 2005-2008 I was the artist for a webcomic called Smithson, written by the formidable Shaenon K. Garrity. The strip ran for several years and was into its fifth chapter when it went on hiatus. In case you don't have time to look through the archives, here's the short version of Chapter 4.

Flexing my painting muscles a bit. Feels like a long time since I painted something other than a cartoon.