A strange urinal and a strange security monitor at a Macy’s restroom.

Sketches from a journal of a camping trip, drawn & written after the fact. 1. We arrive, parking the car in the trees. 2. My friend’s daughter slept through the whole car ride the prior night, so woke much earlier than we were ready to. Eventually we left the tent and ate breakfast at the picnic table. 3. I squatted by the dwindling fire and failed to adequately cook a Native American recipe, the little girl filmed the proceedings & played newscaster with her camera, and the the rain got worse and we erected protection over the table. 4. The rain became a downpour, and we eventually decided to pack it in; I donned a clear plastic emergency poncho and helped ferry everything back to the car. It was a delightful trip, which is why I felt compelled to document it afterward (though more in words than pictures).

I drew this Christmas tree with a windmill for the star for a sustainable design-build company’s holiday card. The sun & sky are part of their logo, not drawn by me.

1. Long stapler, wireless computer mouse, remote control, statuette of the Virgisaurus, fingernail clippers, plastic chicken. 2. Stool, bathroom sink, ceiling vent.

1. Fax machine. 2. Shoes (hiking boots) & socks. 3. Toothbrush & cup holder, cell phone. 4. Bathroom sink stuff: brushes, soap dish, electric toothbrush.

1. Security camera, pen-on-a-chain.  2. Back of a woman at the counter wearing a jacket & jeans.

Tim Hulsizer making original sketches in the back of his zine I Want To Grow Up behind the counter of the bookstore he worked at.

A view just off the trail at Northfield Mountain in Northfield, MA.

On my lunch break one day, I saw this bicycle with a bent rear wheel.

This is the color photocopier at Staples printing off covers for the Trees & Hills New Stars comics anthology.

1. A moth. 2. The 25-lb. cat I live with, on his back.

09-22-07: Winchester, NH’s annual Pickle Fest. 1. State Representative Henry Parkhurst (aka “Mr. Pickle”) in a Jeep in the parade; people on the balcony of a building on the corner; people on Main Street. 2. This guy in Egyptian garb was bopping around in the parade - I have no idea why. It moved fast for a parade, and I had trouble taking everything and trying to keep up drawing.

1. My desk with lots of clutter - this was actually after I’d cleared a lot of stuff off, and just before I replaced it with a drawing table (it’s hard to clutter a sloped surface). 2. A small strip showing a bookcase shelf falling on my foot.

From a party at Anne Thalheimer’s house: some bottles of liquor with crackers, Ben Kalish (with the beard) drawing a jam strip, and Rick Beupre drawing another jam strip.

1. The woman across from me selling her crafts at her table; flags and seal at the American Legion; one of the organizers in hat, tie, and roller skates; a middle-aged woman reading a comic; a man with hat, beard, and baby. 2. Punk crafter with a mohawk; browsing crafter; E.J. Barnes at her table. 3. Coat rack with purses; tall man; comics on display. 4. Browsing college students(?).