Another freelance piece. This gentleman has just received an email from someone in Nigeria, who would like him to help get a vast fortune out of the country, etc. etc.
If I had a zillion dollars, I’d want the Batmobile, too. Though I think I’d just rent The Omega Man, rather than buying it.
Too much work, too little time for fun things … like this!
This … cute … little guy was for a Xmas card I made for my wife, which read “GOOD FOR ONE WACOM TABLET.” She finally decided on a small Graphire, which arrived a few weeks ago. It’s a sleek, silvery sports car to my circa-2000 model Intuos tablet’s Beige Bomber. Apple really has done wonders for computer design.
The painting is gouache on cardstock, cutout, maybe 3″ tall.
Andrew Farago, Brian Moore, and Shaenon K. Garrity in Charlie’s Kitchen, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Photo by Meghan Moore. A belated report, because this week has been insanely busy … Last Saturday my wife Meghan and I dropped by Harvard U’s Vericon to catch a Webcomics panel, featuring Jeffrey Rowland (Overcompensating), Paul Southworth (Ugly Hill), Rich Stevens (Diesel Sweeties), and someone named Shaenon K. Garrity (Narbonic, Lil’ Mel, Smithson, and others). It would be the first time Shaenon and I had met in person. A brief digression about the panel. My contact with fellow cartoonists was pretty limited until the emergence of the internet: my friends in high school, a few artists at various cons, occasional visits with a local guy. So it was very nice to see a group of them in captivity. The panel was an open Q&A format without moderation, but it didn’t take much to get the guests talking (especially after Rich Stevens arrived.) Occasionally they forgot about the audience and just chatted with each other, at which point we had to clear our throats in unison until they noticed us again. Anyway. I caught up with Shaenon and Andrew afterwards, and we walked with others from the con in a sort of hipster phalanx over to Million Year Picnic for the book signing. While Shaenon, Jeffrey, Paul and Rich dealt with the crowd, I had good chats with Andrew and with comics journalist Brigid Alverson, who filled me in on some of the history of British comics. S & A & Meg and I had a great dinner and dessert at a fancy chocolate place, and talked comics, cartoonists, and such like. It was a great time. Finally, because we are Old People and Need Our Rest, Meg and I had to say good night and head back to Lowell. Shaenon and Andrew (possibly fueled by all the caffeine we’d just had at the chocolate place) went off to find some excitement, and apparently ended up at the Masquerade at Vericon, where Shaenon was promptly nabbed by detective L. It was a great time, and I hope to see these folks again soon!
