Anyone living in the DC area recognize the joke behind the name "Otterloop" (at least I hope they do; it took me forever to get it...

Here's a panel from a strip that won't be in papers for another month, and since it isn't the punchline I'm not giving anyth...

Tonight I went to a talk on The Graphic Novel in the Classroom with my friend Mike Rhode (see ComicsDC under Nice Places to Visit to the rig...

I wish I'd learned how to at some point. From what I can tell, the above is saying something nice about Cul de Sac for which I'm gra...

Hey, go look at this guy's work. It's great. And thanks to RC Harvey, who mentioned it on his blog over on gocomics.com. How would y...

Lyonel Feininger, Ed Koren, J J Sempe, Jim Borgman, Elzie Segar, Frank Willard, Saul Steinberg, William Steig, Barry Blitt, Bruce McCall, Jo...

Here's this week's Poor Almanack. Charlie Brown's head, for all it's simplicity, is hard to draw. And the zigzag is even worse.

I did this at the beginning of the year. Let's read it and see how well my prognostications panned out. Yup! Looks like they all came tr...

These are all drawn from real life, except the old guy losing an overshoe in the Metro escalator didn't realize it'd happened until ...

On Wednesday I snuck out of work and went downtown with Ann Telnaes to see a documentary called "The Pixar Story". It was produced...

Drop Panels are the title panels in Sunday strips that are used as filler or dropped because they're filler. The size and shape of a Sun...

Here's something until I think of something better. Like a bridge column or Sudoku.

If I'd've had my druthers, I'd've gone to the ninth triennial Festival of Cartoon Art at Ohio State in Columbus this weekend...

As Mark Heath has identified our Halloween Putto as master cartoonist Charles Addams and thereby spoiled out plans to string this out for th...

Here's something appropriate for Halloween. Can you guess who he is?

I'm back, and I'm pooped, but it's a good kinda pooped. Above is a photo of the area where my syndicate has their offices; they&...

I'm off for a few days to confer, converse and otherwise hobnob with the ladies & gentlemen of the Syndicate who so expertly handle ...

Anybody reading this? You should be; it's probably a lot more fun to read than the Michaelis Schulz biography and it's definitely mo...

Did you know it's National Folksong Month? Well, you're wrong, I don't think it is. Still, here are two lovely folksongs just wa...