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Nick Mullins posted a rich and interesting challenge on his web site today. I don’t have the time it would take to meet it, but I wanted to acknowledge it. It also gave me an excuse to publish a few...
View ArticleCarnival cartoons
This is a follow up to my previous post about Bakhtin’s book Rabelais and His World here Puck is applying love potion to a fortunate dreamer. Below is an image of the play within the play, which I...
View ArticleCarnival Kings
This is one my favorite messy, unfunny cartoons. I drew it as a note to remember something I read in Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World. I won’t tell you what it refers to, either you read the book and...
View ArticleClosed Eye Drawings on Bible Stories
Since today I’m posting some messier stuff here’re two old drawings I did with my eyes closed. Nice yellowing tape, right? They’re probably from somewhere between 91-93. The first one illustrates the...
View Articlemore closed eye drawings
I did a series of closed eye drawings to illustrate a short story Freeman wrote entirely in Haiku.
View Articleyet another closed eye drawing
This is the point in Freeman’s story where the doctor is taken hostage by the mental patient (please note hospital gown open in back.)
View Articlethe classic haiku close(d eye drawing)
My final offering for the evening, again for Freeman Ng’s Haiku Story. I like this one a lot. It reminds me of this.
View ArticleAnother Kind of Likeness
Drawn and read from right to left, lower row to upper row. Process: On a blackboard above a flower I saw it said “Yulija loves Hector.” I encircled the words in a word balloon, a talking flower. Next...
View ArticleBlake Stereoscope as Comic Strip
These are plates 9 & 10 from William Blake’s little book FOR THE SEXES: The Gates of Paradise. I grabbed them off of the wonderful site The Blake Archive. One way to read them is as adjacent...
View Articlestereoscope: Blake of the Shtetl
Here is a stereoscope I’ve had in my possession for over 10 years. On the right is an illustration by Maurice Sendak (1928-2012). It is one of Sendak’s illustrations for Herman Melville’s PIERRE....
View ArticleNew Courses at the New Milford Community School
My new Spring Classes are now up at the New Milford Community School’s web site. You can check them out here. I’m offering courses in Painting in Acrylics, Beginning Drawing, Basic Photoshop, Creative...
View ArticleMy Last Conversation with Kay about the Grove
There are several references in this blog to my presentation of my grove project in Dr. Kay Fowler’s Death and Dying class. Here for example.… Kay died one year ago today after fighting cancer for a...
View ArticleMiyazaki on his film SPIRITED AWAY
… I’d like to talk about another example of a myth being used to an important purpose. The example is the movie SPIRITED AWAY. When I first saw SPIRITED AWAY I didn’t like it. It was flat to me and...
View Article”THE QUARRY MEN:” A CONVERSATION ON NEW MYTHOLOGY WITH CARRIDINE PORAN AND...
… Carridine invited Willi to talk after reading tens of Willi’s interviews with people involved with permaculture and mythology. Willi’s compelling applications of mythology to social and environmental...
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