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.

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. 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(?).

1. A potted plant on top of the video monitor and microphone at the bank. An old woman shopping; a store display shelf of boxes. Cory, owner of Comic Boom, working at his computer behind the counter while wearing a baseball cap. 2. Delicious pastries! Marek (man with the beard) playing music on his guitar while sitting in a chair. Our Sputnik satellite pinata.

1. Trees in a forest, a fat woman, a table, a strange creature, a paranoid man in flannel with satellite-dish hat, a pipe-smoking man in cloak & hood, and a couple abstract designs. 2. Simple cartoon people: a blond man in t-shirt, jean & sneakers with a bag; and an elf, or maybe a man or woman with bandana. 3. A smiling woman in a tank top, with dark curly hair, gesturing in front of the door of a building. 4. A folk-dancing punk. 5. A slightly eerie bald man in a vest.

I made these sketches while trying to figure out my previous web menu graphics. We have some hands (one of which I’m quite proud of), some close-up faces (one focused on the eye), a man with long hair, glasses, and a beard (it’s me, but looking like a stoned goth), a cluttered cabinet full of stuff behind the door, and a shady man in a trenchcoat selling comics on the street.