Cubicle Dreams


The company I work for specializes in providing tech support for graphic designers – single person home studios, multiperson design studios and the creative departments of large corporations. Those creative departments are often the only Macintosh users in company full of PCs. The boss asked me to come up with some illustrations for a campaign he wanted to aim at those creative departments. This image was to illustrate that cubicle life could be lively regardless of the surroundings.

No post tomorrow and maybe not Sunday. I’m going to be on the road with Nizzibet.

‘Tooning the Staff


2002. I’d been at my “real” job for about a year and my boss was thinking of ways to use my drawing talents. He proposed doing a short comic to advertise our tech support services. These sketches are my attempts to come up with cartoon versions of my co-workers.

Page One, Mara Not Brian


Mara Winikat is the current alter ego of King Roach. This image is a scan of the first page of a sketchbook from 2002. I did this sketch soon after I’d realized that Brian Daniels, my original choice for the human half of King Roach, was going to drive me crazy if I had to live with him as protagonist. Poor Brian is unfortunately too much like me – whiny and reluctant to act. Bad enough I have to hang out with me all the time. Mara is actually excited about being able to turn into a giant bug.