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Archive for July, 2009

Something a little different…

Posted in Comic Strips, Health Care, cartoons, tagged , , on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ll return to regular programming in a day or so…or after comic-con. The Health Care ‘debate’ really confuses me, as it seems to be a lot of smoke and mirrors to defend particular players in an industry that is ripe for profit growth. Here’s some thoughts on the issue, I don’t know the answers, I [...]

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Comic Con 2009

Posted in comic books, comic con, tagged , on July 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »

It’s almost the zero-hour. Time to dash for the open doors of Comic-Con. Nothing else quite like it. 3 days of wall-to-wall, kiosk-to-drawing board humanity. And dozens of wildly different height Star Wars Stormtroopers. I have a few surprises and I can’t wait to catch up with friends and see all the amazing work that [...]

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Off Topic Sunday – Pepsi Natural

Posted in Blatherings, Food and Drink, tagged , , on July 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Look, I’m a sucker for slightly odd bottled drinks. Honest Tea, Numi teas, grape soda, blackberry soda, mango-banana-pineapple-tea, the infamous all cane sugar ‘Mexican’ Coke, the Kosher Coke and Pepsi.
I try to stay away from soda, but with a 3 year old, two dogs, a cat and freelance deadlines, and the fact I don’t like [...]

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Picture Book Word Count

Posted in childrens books, picture books, tagged , on July 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »

How many words SHOULD a picture book have? Obviously there is no RIGHT answer. Editorial and educational trends have sway as does the changing culture, for good and for bad.
I used to believe that the downsizing on the number of words in a children’s picture book is an unhealthy trend. Perhaps due to declining attention [...]

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Shirts and Summer

Posted in Digital painting, Photoshop Painting, Portland Oregon, Small World Tees, character design, tagged , on July 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Summer. It’s here. Work. Not getting done. Jobs. Piling up. Sun can be seen in the skies above Portland Oregon. (!!) Studio on third floor -VERY- hot. It’s tough to get through everything that needs to be done when summer hits.  Yard work, house work, picnics, trips to the Oregon coast, seeing family and friends, [...]

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