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Too Old For Frozen
Lori from The Fifth Quarter is too old to enjoy watching Frozen.
November Ashcan
Reminder that $5 members of my ‘Zine Club will be receiving a bonus “ashcan” in the mail next month. Life During Interesting Times, a small print adaptation of an Eisner award nominated essay I published at The Nib, with revised text and new collages throughout.
Thankyou as always to ...
2022-10-29 17:35:24 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember 2020
I have a small comics project in the works, expected to go live in the next few weeks, dealing a little bit with accomplishing small tasks during lockdown and how we’re allowing many of the memories of what that was like to go down the memory hole. This comic took me back on some of that stuff....
2022-10-22 13:54:38 +0000 UTC View Post"Life During Interesting Times" ashcan
November 'Zine Club Plus extra
2022-10-19 13:49:29 +0000 UTC
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I can see clearly now…
Early Pandemic Diary. April 3, 2020.
I’m slowly working on a presentation for children about writing comics and memory, and it has me revisiting some of the diary comics I wrote during the very early pandemic. This one from fairly early on reminded me how the first time I ever wore a mask...
2022-10-06 18:45:24 +0000 UTC View Post
FUN TIME FALL 2022 - going into the mail
I wanted to share this update to let Patrons know my new 'zine with the unwieldy title FUN TIME FALL 2022, SELL-OUT COMICS (the Generation X issue) is going into the mail this weekend. ...
2022-09-30 13:56:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Pasty Skin
An update for my $5 and up Patrons: I have been working on new "D+D" pages, but not enough yet for a proper update. A lot of my energy and effort the past two weeks has been spent produc...
2022-09-21 13:20:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Say “hi” to Grandma
I’d like to be the first middle-grade graphic novelist to accurately depict a Gen Z kid talking on a phone
2022-08-30 12:41:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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Video Games
Are either bad for you or extremely enriching depending on whether I like playing them or not
2022-08-23 23:54:17 +0000 UTC View PostDavid+David - update for $5 Patrons
This is an update for everybody supporting me at the $5 and more level.
First off, thank-you for your continued support. I can't tell you how much I appreciate it.
I want to give you a heads-up about a new feature I'm going to be offering exclusively for $5 Patrons.
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2022-08-23 14:18:42 +0000 UTC View PostSoon.
This is a diary comic I made somewhere in the middle of that first year of the pandemic, when we were all at home, stuck on our screens, not seeing anybody.
I include this strip in the presentation that I ta...
2022-08-19 14:57:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Stranger Things
*yes, I know Eddie Munson wasn’t an actual older brother to any of the characters, but he had all the vibes
2022-08-07 13:25:14 +0000 UTC View PostFUN TIME FALL 2022
I made a total mess rolling out my new ‘zine, first publishing a post where I’m calling it one thing and then changing my mind and coming up with something new and having to repost, but such is the nature of this Patreon…
I just want to share the final cover image to ...
2022-08-06 12:05:16 +0000 UTC View PostGeneration YECCCCHH!
Announcing the next mini-comic I will be producing as part of my Patreon zines-by-mail subscription offering: “Generation YECCCCHH!”, the title and logo 2022-08-04 17:07:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Teach Your Children Well
This is an older cartoon, recently polished up and colorized for inclusion in the presentation I take to schools and libraries to talk to kids about comics. The purpose of this strip in the slideshow is to make the point that comics can be about anything, even a dad’s inconsequential paranoid p...
2022-08-03 14:35:04 +0000 UTC View Post