Inktober

Tomorrow, I will be attending an informal lunch with the New England chapter of the National Cartoonists Society. The invitation came with homework — a drawing for Inktober.

This took four hours, from preliminary sketch to inked finish. It’s a compositional mess, and my inking needs work, and much more patience, but it’s done.

I added a splash of color to a laser printer copy of the scan.

A President at War With America

Trump takes the next step towards declaring martial law to prevent the midterm elections.

“We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/us/politics/trump-hegseth-military-officers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.p08.Qbmx.d4ya4TBLhY_H&smid=url-share

If that latest outrage makes it difficult to relax, watch this.

One of those may not be enough, if you’re trying to get to sleep.

Cartoonists Eat Dinner! Give Awards!

Now you can experience what I did at the National Cartoonists Society Awards Dinner. Minus the dinner. 😉

The video will start when Colleen took the stage to present two awards. As Colleen correctly implied, comic book people are typically more familiar with comic strips than comic strip people are familiar with comic books.