Here’s this month’s “Pen Avenue,” my cartoon for Print, Pittsburgh’s East End newspaper:
Print is not available online; you can only read it in (what else?) print. It’s available at Giant Eagle and other stores in Pittsburgh’s East End, or subscribe on the website.
Or How I Stopped Loving Technology and Learned to Dread The News
Here’s this month’s “Pen Avenue,” my cartoon for Print, Pittsburgh’s East End newspaper:
Print is not available online; you can only read it in (what else?) print. It’s available at Giant Eagle and other stores in Pittsburgh’s East End, or subscribe on the website.
Interestingly (or maybe not), I only started working in color recently. Most of my cartoons have been in black-and-white. This cartoon, I think, may work better in black-and-white (and that’s how I’m considering posting it at Tube City Almanac):
Rough sketches:
Excelsior!
Jean Shepherd, who wrote the articles on which “A Christmas Story” was based (and narrated the film), was a well-known amateur radio operator.
According to the website “Flick Lives,” Shep was fascinated by radio at an early age and got his first amateur radio license — W9QWN — when he was approximately 16.
In later years, Shepherd contributed articles to radio magazines such as “73,” appeared and spoke regularly at amateur radio conventions around the United States, and even narrated audio tapes and videos about the radio hobby.
So I thought it was fair to ask, why isn’t “A Christmas Story” about a kid who wants a ham radio for Christmas?
Cartoon from 2013 for the late, lamented Popular Communications Magazine (R.I.P.)
Merry Christmas and 73!
Here’s this month’s “Pen Avenue,” my cartoon for Print, Pittsburgh’s East End newspaper:
Print is not available online; you can only read it in (what else?) print. It’s available at Giant Eagle and other stores in Pittsburgh’s East End, or subscribe on the website.
Rough sketches:
Here’s this month’s “Pen Avenue,” my cartoon for Print, Pittsburgh’s East End newspaper:
Print is not available online; you can only read it in (what else?) print. It’s available at Giant Eagle and other stores in Pittsburgh’s East End, or subscribe on the website.
This month’s cartoon is riffing off of this story, and other similar stories, about a plan by Pittsburgh Public Schools to merge or consolidate a number of buildings.
This is also one of the few occasions where an editor has asked me to change the wording slightly; here was the original version:
Here’s this month’s “Pen Avenue,” my cartoon for Print, Pittsburgh’s East End newspaper:
Print is not available online; you can only read it in (what else?) print. It’s available at Giant Eagle and other stores in Pittsburgh’s East End, or subscribe on the website.
Original rough sketch:
My humps, my humps, my lovely Gainey humps
Here’s this month’s “Pen Avenue,” my cartoon for Print, Pittsburgh’s East End newspaper:
I assume Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey got a great deal on speed humps, because it seems like they’re on every street in the East End now. Does Ollie’s sell speed humps?
Also, calling them “speed humps” rather than “speed bumps” makes me laugh. Because “hump.” Mentally, my age is Beavis and Butt-Head. Hump. Huh huh huh.
Did you know? In England, they call them “Sleeping Policemen.” Which is pretty damn morbid, when you think about it.
Print is not available online; you can only read it in (what else?) print. It’s available at Giant Eagle and other stores in Pittsburgh’s East End, or subscribe on the website.
Original rough sketch:
It’s electric, boogie-woogie-woogie
This month’s “Pen Avenue” for Print, Pittsburgh’s East End newspaper:
Print is not available online; you can only read it in (what else?) print. It’s available at Giant Eagle and other stores in Pittsburgh’s East End, or subscribe on the website.
Original rough sketch:
This month’s “Pen Avenue” for Print, Pittsburgh’s East End newspaper:
Print is not available online; you can only read it in (what else?) print. It’s available at Giant Eagle and other stores in Pittsburgh’s East End, or subscribe on the website.