I'm better now

I'm not sure how to describe this exactly: it was something I did for another picture (which I may or may not have posted). It's a drawing on a puzzle - and what you have is a picture of the drawing on the puzzle, taken partway apart.  It mostly lives in a box, put together, but the whole point of the cartoon on a puzzle was to take it apart.

Anyhow, it reflected how I felt at the time, and while I still conceptually like the idea, it's not how I feel these days. 

Better picture of an older picture

I've posted this before, but I was going through old drawings and paintings and found this, and thought I could give you a better version. More to come, and hopefully some more cartoons in the next week or so.

#TBT

My copy of the Portable Nietzsche fell apart many, many years ago; since some of the books are included in their entirety - such as Nietzsche's late polemic, The Antichrist (the title is more ambiguous in German than it seems to be in English). Anyhow, I took the pages of that book (translated by Walter Kaufmann) and made my own cover. I recently rediscovered it while (finally) organizing my books.

Throwback Monday

I ran across this while organizing my books: the "cover illustration" and working title for my manuscript (the title is from to Robert Solomon).

That's all for today.

Back to School (not for me, of course)

A shout out to all the English teachers out there - Imma rooting for ya!

Some guy named Chris? Day

Again, inspired by true events.

Anthony Hopkins Day (or something like that, I forget who this day is named after)

Inspired by true events!
(Even if I know what I'm talking about, it doesn't always need to be explained; that is, I need to gauge my audience's knowledge of a particular issue before proceeding.)

Humid Tuesday Evening

Trying to get caught up on my cartoon ideas, but that may mean that there's less text to accompany them - lucky you!

Inspired by True Events!

This is actually a quote from Team Meeting last week, one of the social workers paraphrasing what seemed to be happening with one of our clients. 

This isn't a job where I get a lot of (non-morbid, non-blasphemous) cartoons ideas!

Thursday already?

The week has somehow flown by, but I will briefly tell the story I alluded to last time.

I bought a "new" CD: Cheap Trick, at Budokan, and was listening to it with my wife (who was unfamiliar with it). I was reminiscing about listening to this as a junior-highschooler, and she asked what I thought me-in-the-early-eighties would think if "he" could see me now. 

I think I would have been happy to see that I had a pretty wife, and a nice house. I would probably have been happy to know that I had a PhD and had written a book, even if the book got mixed reviews (no link!). I would have been surprised to learn that I was working as a hospice chaplain, although that's more difficult to gauge: as I've said before (somewhere, I'm sure), my family wasn't very religious when I was growing up, but at some point I developed a curiosity about mystical traditions (mostly Sufi and Taoist, Buddhism came much later). I have more thoughts on that point which I might write out later. 

But the thing that would have surprised me the most? Ohio. It still kinda surprises me. 

Long Sunday

I was going to write a fairly long post about listening to my newest CD, but it's already been a long day and I'd rather draw than write right now. 

So that gives you something to look forward to - both a drawing (at some point in the future) and a story about me listening to a CD. For now, here's a cartoon inspired by true events!

Thursday Evening

Dinner guest (who already knows I'm a hippy)  - should be a pleasant evening.

Wednesday Night

Not the evening I imagined, but not bad.

Sunday before the storm...

Still waiting to hear back to see if I need to write two short book reports sometime before Thursday...

Overcast

I don't have much to say at the moment - trying to get out of a writing assignment that would have to be finished in a couple days, and also trying to get started on a much, much larger writing project that would potentially take the next year to complete. I may talk about one or both at some point, but for now, just a cartoon.

Just a cartoon for today, but I'm working on some other stuff.

I was listening, listening to the rain...

...I was hearing, hearing something else.

A cartoon for your Sunday afternoon.
It's even biblically accurate.

Throwback Tuesday

You've probably figured out by now that I more or less just post old drawings as I find them, without regard to the day of the week.

But seriously, you need to watch this movie.

Last Day of June

You'd think I'd have better things to do than to post old cartoons mocking students...
but you'd apparently be wrong.

Throwback Sunday

Looking through old notebooks, I found this and realized I hadn't posted it before. 
I tell people how, when I was in seminary, I gave up on taking "regular notes" after the first semester, and just drew cartoons in class. Usually, that's followed up with something to the effect that, when I look at the cartoons, I get a larger sense of what was happening in class, what the relevant theological point was, or something to that effect.

Not with this cartoon, though. I just like Bowie.