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Bilingual Acrostic Rebus

January 23rd, 2024 · No Comments

A puzzle for the readers of Typo, slated for the fifth issue. To get you started, the first four letters are LONG.

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LOGO + LOGO = LOGOS

October 5th, 2023 · No Comments

Some capitalist theology.

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The Hawaiian Spirit Board

September 7th, 2023 · 4 Comments

This useful design can be found in Typo 3.

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Exhibit and Reading at Elting Memorial Library

August 3rd, 2023 · No Comments

A selection of original artwork from my comic book Shorten the Classics will be on display throughout August, at the Elting Memorial Library in New Paltz, NY. I’ll also give a reading there on Wednesday, August 9, at 7 pm; I’ll be joined by another alumnus of the NYC performance scene, Tom Keener. The library […]

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Shorten the Classics: In Search of Lost Time

November 21st, 2022 · 3 Comments

This is the centennial of the death of Marcel Proust (November 18, 1922). Here, then, is my version of In Search of Lost Time, from Shorten the Classics. It saves Marcel a lot of work.

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Shorten the Classics

December 14th, 2021 · Comments Off on Shorten the Classics

Shorten the Classics is now available from Black Scat Books! This book reduces 52 great works of literature to one cartoon page apiece: not by summarizing them, but by cutting them off early. See what happens when Helen rejects Paris, the acorn misses Chicken Little, Adam and Eve eat the serpent, Leopold Bloom sleeps in, […]

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Shorten the Classics: The Iliad

December 3rd, 2021 · 1 Comment

This, I think, will be the first page of my upcoming comic book Shorten the Classics. I may as well start by aborting the Trojan War. Good riddance!

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Black Scat Review 23

November 16th, 2021 · Comments Off on Black Scat Review 23

The 23rd issue of Black Scat Review is now available! It’s devoted to “wordplay,” and includes several pages of Doug Skinner: my translations of two poems by Raymond Queneau (depicted on the cover) and four pages of my upcoming comic book Shorten the Classics. Also on board are the stellar crew of Mark Axelrod, Tom Barrett, […]

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Shorten the Classics: Chicken Little

November 4th, 2021 · Comments Off on Shorten the Classics: Chicken Little

In another shortened classic, Chicken Little doesn’t think the sky is falling. What a relief!

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Shorten the Classics: Black Beauty

September 29th, 2021 · 2 Comments

I’ve drawn a few pages under the rubric “Shorten the Classics.” Each is four panels, and abbreviates a famous work of literature, usually by nipping it in the bud. Tragedies are averted, murders prevented, adulteries blocked. Derek Pell of Black Scat Books urged me to draw a book of them, so that’s what I’m doing […]

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