For Art's Sake: Model Problem

Cover and the first of three stories from an "ashcan" comic I produced many years ago for self-promotion at conventions. My apologies if some of the humor seems too risque.

For Art's Sake: Good God, Charlie Brown!

I know PEANUTS satires are nothing new.( this one appeared in the COMICS BUYER'S GUIDE in 1997) I'm not sure how I came up with this one, but I do know that although I thought PEANUTS was a good strip, the treatment of Charlie Brown often was a bit too much for me to take. (maybe due to I got a TON of that similar treatment in real-life during my own childhood) I've always wondered (or wished) what would happen If good ol' Charlie Brown ever reached his limit. (which sadly, seems to be happening with real-life people way too often these days) In any case, since the PEANUTS movie is coming soon…I really liked how I drew the last panel, with my talking easel Monet giving that Schulz-like smirk.

For Art's Sake: Patreon

A quick tablet sketch with my FOR ART'S SAKE characters.

For Art's Sake: More From the Archives

A few of my FOR ART'S SAKE strips I did for COMICS BUYER'S GUIDE during the early Nineties.

Je Suis, Charlie Hebdo

I've never been overtly political, but this effects me on a professional level. The outright murder of ten journalists- four of them cartoonists- of the French satirical publication CHARLIE HEBDO by Islamic fundementalists is too much for me to just let pass. You can discuss religious dogma and blasphemy at me 'til you're blue in the face- but NO religion OR god has the right or justification to kill anybody, ESPECIALLY if said person doesn't agree with your  viewpoint, be it expresses via spoken opinion, words on paper, or yes, even a cartoon.  Here's my old CBG characters to further comment on the issue:

A while after I drew up THIS cartoon, I read an article by Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, saying while he didn't condone the violence, essentially stated that the CHARLIE HEBDO staff brought the disaster upon themselves. Why am I not surprised he'd blame the victim?

For Art's Sake: Typical Portfolio Review

For Art's Sake: Media Influence

This was drawn many years ago when outside media was just starting to have a major effect on comic-cons like San Diego. The two characters in the last panel are the VORTOXIANS from the FISSION CHICKEN comics series created by the late J.P. Morgan.

For Art's Sake: Mural Fiber

For Art's Sake: Out Shopping

Unpublished strip. And no one really uses Zip-A-Tone any more, do they?

For Art's Sake: KABOOM! Pt. 3

The third of my three strips for KABOOM! Though he didn't make many appearances during the last years of the Comics Buyers Guide strips, (A lot due to CBG going from weekly to monthly) Monet was always one of my favorite characters.

For Art's Sake: KABOOM! pt. 2

The second of my three KABOOM! strips.

For Art's Sake: KABOOM Part1

Back in 1993, I contributed (along with some other COMICS BUYERS GUIDE cartoonists) to a comics newspaper called "KABOOM!" (no relation to BOOM Studios) I decided to try my FOR ART'S SAKE characters in situations outside the norm of my COMICS BUYERS GUIDE material and drew up three two page strips, which were reformatted to fill three TABLOID-sized pages. I also tried to go for more detailed artwork (apparently my inking at the time was going thru a period of trying to combine Walt Kelly with Gilbert Shelton) KABOOM only lasted one issue, but it was a thrill seeing my strip take up three entire HUGE pages. The strip below is the first of the three. For posting purposes, this is in its original drawn two-page format.

For Art's Sake: Ecologically Correct Comics

Two old episodes of my strip FOR ART'S SAKE originally published in the COMICS BUYER'S GUIDE. The jokes aren't the only thing that qualify for composting here.

Any Candy Left?

A couple days late, but if you're still fighting over the leftovers…An old FOR ART'S SAKE from my COMICS BUYERS GUIDE days, featuring my long -suffering editor, Maggie Thompson. (she published me for twenty years- that counts as long-suffering)

After-Halloween Tip

Candy Corn is to Halloween what Fruitcake is to Xmas. Otherwise…

For Art's Sake: Unused Designs

Original Color renditions of my FOR ART'S SAKE characters I had originally planned to use on a t-shirt. Art and Andrea on the front, Monet on the back.

I Scream, You Scream, Of COURSE You'll Scream, Once You Get The Joke!

The First Published Episode of FOR ART'S SAKE

From the COMIC'S BUYER'S GUIDE #912 (May 10, 1991)

For Art's Sake: Two More Episodes

For Art's Sake: Never Mind Why I posted Them, Just Read Them

An assortment of old FOR ART'S SAKE strips I decided to post just for the hell of it. Maybe someday I'll try more chronological orderly entires.