These Days …
I’ve been working my new postal route here in Burien for about a month now. It’s a big change from my old route in West Seattle. It has a lot more trees and great views of Puget Sound. The views are especially nice these days because we’re getting more sunny days than rainy ones. The route is all driving except when delivering parcels that won’t fit in a mailbox. Even then I often drive the parcel to the customer’s door because a lot of folks’ houses are down (or up) long, steep driveways a long way from their mailbox. Right now, going down (or up) those driveways is fairly safe. When it gets rainy or, especially, icy? No way am I driving or walking those inclines. I find it hard to believe that the residents would be able to get out on cold weather days.
I get a lot more smiles and waves when delivering than I did in West Seattle. Most of the dog walkers cheerfully acknowledge my presence. Quite a few customers have introduced themselves at their boxes. So far, so good.
Early Digital Gallery
These images were all done with my first Wacom tablet and Photoshop. I was learning to draw with the tablet. No physical versions of this art exists.
Reminder, if you’re reading this as an email, the gallery is truncated. The full gallery can be seen by going to Skookworks.com.
Zazswatch One
Back in the late Nineties, Sarah and I published GLYPH, a free comics tabloid. We’d hoped to finance it with advertising but …
We managed five issues. I did four stories about a bigfoot for GLYPH. This is the first.
Nine Panels – The Surrilana Depths
I’m currently drawing The Surrilana Depths, my very loose graphic novel adaptation of the 1930 pulp novel Morgo the Mighty by “Sean O’Larkin”. I’ve drawn a number of versions of the novel’s characters over the years. These are versions that I’ll be featuring in Surrilana. As of this writing I’ve finished four pages – colored art with lettering. Doing a page of color art takes me about 15-20 hours and I’ve only got an hour to an hour and a half each day to draw so it’s going to be a while before I start posting anything.
Here’s your reminder that I’m posting older images from my computer archives daily on substack, blue sky and tumblr. It’s the same image on each platform so you can pick the one you prefer. If you want the images to come to your email then subscribing to my substack is the way to go.
I’ll be back again on June 15th. Until then, take care of yourself. Get outside. Spend time with friends. Read a book. Bury a fascist in a shallow grave in the dessert but don’t tell anyone. Cheers!
