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).

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

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. 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(?).

E.J. Barnes and Thom May drawing stuff.

Numerous cartoonist-type artists, all wearing glasses: 1. Anne Thalheimer sewing in a chair with potted plants; Mark Bode’s head. 2. Mark Stacy, Bryant Paul Johnson, Sarah Adam, Gary Hallgren. 3. E.J. Barnes.

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.

Some sketches of a friend; the first was drawn from life in pencil and inked later; the rest were drawn from memory. #3 shows her on a bridge over a river. #4 is of her apartment at the time; one panel is the kitchen (stove & cabinets), the other is the bedroom/living room with futon and lamp.

Drawn for a coworker’s wedding; features the happy couple, man and woman, with love a-plenty (as well as pig and clam a-plenty, since they were having a pig roast and clam bake). Ah, marriage.

February 2006 events calendar cover for Flywheel, showing a man and woman in the mountains at night standing by a fire and listening to music emitted by a large stone statue head.