Gashlycrumb Tiny Jeighdeane

A friend asked me to turn her into a Gashlycrumb Tiny, ala Edward Gorey.

Absinthe-minded

There was something I meant to do today.

Boy Jeenyusses

For a time, this hung outside the office that Mik and I shared at Eisner.

Birthday Mirror Image

It's old photo day at Branwellington International. I always liked these two shots of Corrie blowing out the candles on her birthday cake. Corrie's mom and I took them at the same moment from different angles. Her with color film and a flash, me with b&w and a longer exposure. The results, when you look at them together, are pretty cool.

Algebra 1 Photos

All these photos are at least 10 years old. Sorry the scans are so crummy.

Pong-Bot 2

Pong-Bot has an adversary on the opposite wall. Or is it a love interest? I don't think she'd be into him. She seems like an Amazonian, ping-pong-playing robot to me. I drew her this morning.

The Death of a Disco iMac

A few months ago, our 8-year-old iMac died. Last Saturday, the kids and I explored the insides and took photos. Holy obsolete technology, the CRT was nearly ubiquitous for what, sixty years? Does anyone still make them now? As I took the shell off to expose the machine's innards, Lily cheerfully informed me that "The computer is crying...I can hear it."

The Lovely Corpse: A Crowd-Sourced Twitter Novella

Apologies and gratitude to Terry Taylor who had the brilliant idea of writing an entire novel on Twitter (http://twitter.com/ttaylordude). Since I'm neither as clever nor as talented as that, I thought it would be fun to crowd-source a short story/novella on Twitter (I'm also rather lazy – a whole novel is beyond my attention span).

Here's how it works. I've started the story here: http://twitter.com/lovelycorpse

You contribute the next bit. Whatever that is. A full sentence. Half a sentence. Three short sentences. Whatever 131 characters allows (140 char. minus #lvlycrps hash tag). I'll pick the best contribution and add it to the novella's feed, including your RT attribution.

I'll try to update the story three times a day. Around 9-10EST, around 5-6EST and around 10-11EST. Times are approximate because I am flaky.

Limitations:
1. You must have a Twitter account to contribute. Sorry, Luddites.
2. You must include the hash tag #lvlycrps.
3. You must leave enough space for RT attribution. This means enough space for your user name plus RT plus a space plus @. So if your username is branwellington, you only have 123 characters.

One last note. The story's title, The Lovely Corpse, is a nod to an old surrealist game called the Exquisite Corpse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse).

The Wizard

Drew this on the wall opposite Pong-Bot. It's my boss, Woody, as the Wizard of Oz. After these pictures were taken, Chris Sheldon added the witch (complete with red and white striped socks), spelling "Surrender Jamin" in broom-smoke, to the top.