About
In my secret identity, I am a ninja cartoonist.
I’ve been drawing since I was about knee-high to a bottle of India ink. I drew comic strips for local newspapers in high school, and in college I was a political cartoonist for the campus paper and printed my own hand-made comic books. During the 1990s, I wrote and drew comic books for INNOVATION, Antarctic Press and Radio Comix.
I currently do occasional freelance and commission work and draw a weekly web comic, Hannibal Tesla Adventure Magazine, which can now be found here on this site.
I live in the Enchanted Land-O-Cheese with my wife Lute (also known as the Frisky Ferretlass); my daughters Gamera Rose and Rodan; two cats; a pair of finches; lots of fish; a snake and a hatful of ferrets.
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A list of some of my projects and published works
Commissions and Contact Information
Why yes, I also do commissioned artwork. Here is how you can get in touch with me.
I noted your posts about H. P. Lovecraft on Daily Kos. (For some reason, I have never been able to successfully register there, so I gave up.) I thought you might be interested in seeing a lecture on Poe and Lovecraft that S. T. Joshi delivered for our society back in early October. The URL of the full text is: http://www.eapoe.org/papers/psblctrs/pl20121.htm
Thanks. I will check that out.
Loved your Daily Kos article about introducing Little Rodan to D&D. I’ve played and run a fair number of games at my local store, and in my opinion, the art of DMing is not challenging the players, much less trying to defeat them; it’s about navigating the players through the story while making them feel like they’ve been challenged. (And dead PCs = no story.) Sometimes that will mean fudging die rolls or holding back with the monster’s most powerful ability or taking the PCs captive instead of killing them. Sounds like you’re doing a great job so far!
It was really unusual to meet another cartoonist right here in An-so-nia (Sheboygan) while at the printers! I am already impressed at the volume of your work here, if this page is any evidence! Looking forward to checking it out now! Thanks for the invite!
Saw your comment at Kos about that Chad Mitchell album, and I think you’d appreciate how we got that single. My mother went into the local newsstand/magazine and record dealer and ordered it. Didn’t come in. Tried again. Nothing, again. Third time, ordered it under the flip-side title, and got it. (“The Golden Vanity”, where the cabin boy gets cheated out of his reward and sinks the ship that cheated him.) As a result, I remember both songs. (“You just go through the door and take the first turn to the right”)