Where Are They Now?

In this image, a Wolverine-haired Bobu Leene takes his espresso in a cafe somewhere along a cobblestone street in Europe. Fancy threads.

The Workaday World

This here's a sort of editorial cartoon I did about the noisome beasts that encompass us all these days. Why rabbits? Why not?

Radio Monstrosity

Here's a sketch I churned out for no particular reason promoting WFMU, still the best radio station on the dial. Sent it to Station Manager Ken, but no word (such is life). I originally came up with this grotesque guy well over a decade or more ago as part of a WFMU contest to design the station mascot. I won the contest, but never collected on the prizes, and the original plan to create plush versions of this brute never happened. Maybe Ken feels I am some ghostly apparition from beyond the grave coming to collect on past contest wins, who knows.

Note to self: WTF was I drawing with here, some frickin' faded marker? Cripes.

Me an' art.

As an artist I was almost comically obsessed with meaning, as if the churning cosmos gave a whit about the lines and scratches I made on paper. Yet it is admirable and wonderful to be temporarily transported by art, a bulwark against the terrible onslaught of time. Just let's not get the idear of transcendence. Lines fade, paper decays, electricity fails. My great folly was thinking I was somehow separate or above nature.

The plan.

Gonna post more about my ill-fated, self-published comic book, Bobu Leene, in this space. It was distributed by Diamond Comic Distributors, and didn't sell many copies, though it had a handful of readers. I'd be interested in hearing from anybody who remembers the book. It ran about 10 issues starting in January 1997, and the following year I published an unrelated one-off of comic strips called "Lone Killer."

I'll probably be posting some artwork here. I was hoping at some point to put together a hardbound version of all the issues, graphic-novel format and all, showing how they should have appeared (but didn't because I didn't have enough money to print them up right). But first I've got to find a large scanner to scan all the artwork in.