Recent Blog Posts
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Decoding the Gurus
I’m a podcast junkie, and have been for– wow– fifteen years now. I listen to podcasts while traveling, going for walks, cleaning, and performing any other action that could be tedious if not for having interesting voices in my ears. When I think back to a portion of a podcast, I visualize where I was…
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AAEC 2019 meeting at CXC in Columbus recap, and some rambling semi-related personal musings (Part II)
This post is a continuation of Part I– if you haven’t read that yet, click this link. Though I unfortunately missed Kal’s presentation, I did make it to the two AAEC panels that took place on Saturday afternoon (Day 3). The panel “Cartoonists’ Rights and the Free Speech Situation Facing the World” was moderated by…
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AAEC 2019 meeting at CXC in Columbus recap, and some rambling semi-related personal musings (Part I)
After devoting myself to editorial cartooning at a rapidly increasing pace since the end of 2016, following the work of several cartoonists to the point of being able to identify a new cartoon’s artist without looking, and recording my reflections on the current state of the whole enterprise from an outsider’s perspective, I decided that…
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iZombie and intuitions about spirit possession
So I’ve been binge-watching the show iZombie on Netflix recently. It’s a supernatural legal drama type show in which zombies exist, and the protagonist has been turned into one against her will. She’s not your typical mindless shambler, however, and actually is pretty much a normal human, apart from the incessant need to consume human…
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On the death, dearth, and demographics of political cartoons
As you may have noticed, I’ve been off the blog for quite some time, as I’ve thrown myself pretty completely into political cartooning (the results of which are posted on the main page of this site). But today I wanted to do some more writing– about political cartoons. Mine and other people’s, but mostly other…