This portrait of the Patchwork Girl went to Steve Ahlquist, the creator of Oz Squad.

Yes, I’m still working on the first issue.

And here is are our pirate queens with a little color in their cheeks.

This card went to Jeff Nicholson. It’s a portrait of the pirates Anne and Bonnie from his graphic novel series Colonia. Colonia is the story of a boy and his uncles lost in alternate America, one that’s only been marginally colonized by Europeans. This America has no Indians but it is inhabited.

This illustration looks better to me now than when I first did it. It’s not just the addition of color. If I don’t like a drawing adding color to it isn’t going to make me like it more. I’ll still see all the flaws.

I’ve got quite a few Batman sketches in my sketchbooks. I don’t really like any of them. The artist in me is caught between the kid in me (who thinks Batman rocks) and the adult in me (who thinks Batman is sort of silly at best). He never manages to satisfy either of them. I wish I had time to ramble on about the whys and all behind that. Not today.

This card went to Jason Lamb down in Portland. A while back we’d discussed working on a noir superhero anthology. I ended up bowing out of the project. I already had other commitments that I was (and am) slow to fullfill on. Hopefully someday we’ll manage to work on something together. Jason, if you read this, do you have a website you’d like me link to?

No, I don’t think she’d be able to pull back into that shell. So instead, she runs away from predators. The world’s fastest turtle!

This card went to Schuyler in England. Not Australia. Fortunately the post office is smarter than I am.

He just wants a kiss!

This card went to John Pagel one of the founding members and chief procurement officer of the Tuesday Night Party Club. John’s weekend was Wednesday and Thursday. None of the Club members were 21 but John worked at a liquor store and so could sell us the alcohol that we needed. It seems like we drank a lot of Yukon Jack.

Blah blah blah color blah blah.

The sun is out in Seattle. Nowhere to hide. No air conditioning in our apartment.

And a pigeon has built a nest on our porch. Shows you how often we go out there.