These Days …
Hello again. Good to see you. Good to be seen.
I am constantly fighting an urge to write a philosophy of life. Or a book of advice. Or a manifesto. I resist the urge by reminding myself –
A) Drawing comics and illustrations is more fun.
B) It would be long and complicated and therefore take a long time to write (and rewrite and rewrite) so it makes sense.
C) What works for me, works for me. It’s really arrogant to assume it would work for anyone else.
D) Drawing comics and illustrations is way more fun.
So y’all are rescued once again.
But the multiverse is endlessly varied. In some realities I did write that weighty tome. In fewer realities it was published. In even fewer it was read by more than a few people. And … I’m guessing I changed the lives of fewer people in those realities than in the ones where I became a politician. Or a cult leader.
I’m not saying I improved anyone’s lives as a politician or a cult leader. Maybe in some realities.
In this reality?
In this reality there are already a LOT of people offering advice. On how to live. On how to get women to fall in love with you. On how to get men to be decent human beings. On how to write your screenplay/novel/memoir. On how to use Clip Studio more effectively. With social media it’s really easy to hand out advice. It’s really easy to get advice. I read a lot of Substack posts and watch a lot of YouTube videos. I figure it never hurts to learn something new.
Also in this reality: I’m still delivering mail. Sometimes I deliver things that do improve lives. I’m really appreciating the Burien station, my current station. One of my coworkers also carries routes at Westwood, my old station. He tells me that folks there are having to put in a lot of mandatory overtime. In Burien, getting mandoed hasn’t happened. I’ve been asked to carry extra three times. It was easy. So I feel pretty lucky. Hopefully I’m not jinxing that luck by talking about it.
A Mugshot Gallery – Part One
My big project for 2022 was to create an illustration a week to be put on mugs in my Zazzle and Redbubble stores. This is gallery features half of those illustrations.
Zazkwatch
This was the last Zazkwatch comic, published in the fourth issue of GLYPH.
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.
Nine Panels – Alien Folk
We have made it this far friends! We can go all the way!
All the way where?
That the question isn’t it. I grew up watching and reading stories of apocalypses, dystopias and disasters. It sometimes feels like all those tales were summoning spells for bad times. Bad times don’t need summoning. They arrive with little effort on our part.
It’s time to call up the Good. Not that Abundance shit that the Tech Bros are feeding us.
Make art. Tell stories. Make music. Make comics. Have a conversation with another human being in the same room.
Then do it again!
See you on September 15th!
