I work with youth, and one of the trends I have been noticing as of late is the tendency to be completely immersed in one’s phone. The more I look around, the more I realize that this isn’t something that is unique only to adolescents and teens. In fact many adults are guilty of the [...]
Sometimes writing for different characters can be a bit of a challenge. Recently I finished the first draft of my -cough- highly anticipated screenplay, and I find that the character that gave me the most difficulty was my main protagonist. I worried sometimes that he was being overshadowed by more dynamic characters, and that his [...]
Keep playing your drums. The music will follow. ………………………………………………………………………………………………….. We have a contest winner! Last month we had our “Who Wants to Be In a Comic Strip?” contest, and many of you shared your favorite comic strip and entered! I wish I could draw everyone into the comic strip all the time. You guys are [...]
For some time I have been thinking about the post I would write with today’s comic strip. For weeks I have been formulating various thoughts in my mind, trying desperately to piece them together into some kind of written structure. So many different topics came forward: true friendship, inner beauty, social anxieties, objectification, self worth, [...]
I’m stuck. I’m totally stuck. Not only is my future devoid of any kind of plan, but I can’t even think of anything clever or satirical to write under this comic strip. So I’m stuck in both the literal and the philosophical sense. I’m doubly stuck. Like a dinosaur caught in one of the La [...]
Sometimes I stress about decisions. I worry that one wrong decision will lead to a chain reaction that will cause my life to end up completely different than if I had made a different decision earlier on. And that’s the way life is. Because our decisions really do change the outcome of our lives. I [...]
08/15/2006 – Just when things couldn’t get worse…You ever had your car broken into? I have. 08/14/2006 – I hate being cursed. I hate being twenty-five. I hate Utah. I hate the Dodgers. I hate the entire academic world and everything it stands for. I hate the collective time span of 2003-2006. I will probably [...]
07/18/2006 – Just a short little sketchy strip today as things have been really, really busy. Be sure to check out the “Extras” section if you haven’t already. Saw a really cool play based off of “Alice in Wonderland” the other day. Humpty Dumpty was awesome, actually, better than awesome. Humpty Dumpty was . . [...]
