dave berg, postmodernist

My only problem is that the author doesn’t explore Berg’s use of the Foucauldian doctor-patient regime of control.

domestic surveillance catches bin laden

This is my first solo experience with photoshop coloring. The colors are sort of flat, but the last panel and Jan’s hair show a bit of what I’ll try to do in the future, hopefully.

we now return to your semiregularly-scheduled blogging

Moved all major operations to DC last Sunday. Started my job on Tuesday. It’s been a time of transition, and those frantic times are never conducive to the self-absorption normally required of a true and noble blogger. To paraphrase Mitt Romney, “blogging requires freedom, just as freedom requires blogging.”

I will perform my one trick for you again in a few days.

end of an era

My first Red & Black cartoon, published September 1, 2004:

My last Red & Black cartoon, published January 18, 2008:

(Click image for larger version)

It’s weird leaving a job like that, one that defines you, for better or worse, throughout practically your entire college career. At the same time, though, the only thing that I’ve done is switched employers, which will probably occur a half dozen more times before I turn 30. I guess all I can say about my time at the Red & Black is that it a) made me more consistent as an artist (slightly), b) streamlined my creative process (immensely), and c) led me – directly or tangentially – to people I would have never met otherwise. OK. Enough.

Oh, and they should have paid me more.

soaring towards the future

Internships lead to bigger and better … internships, which lead to bigger and better … um, freelance positions. As I enter the coda of my college career I’ve been asking, with gradually increasing frequency, “what exactly have I been working towards for the last four years?”

yeah, but their terrorists make more out of college

A visceral reaction to this story. I figured I might as well get in a swipe at Tech (which I hadn’t done previously) before I sign off.

kerry endorses obama

I don’t get to draw Kerry much anymore, unfortunately.

The audience is full of famous individuals.

pastor huck

Like Mike, sometimes I just like to give sermons, as demonstrated in this cartoon. I go through phases with wordy cartoons. Sometimes I feel as though my spittle-flecked disgust for American politics can’t be described in one panel. Other times, I prefer to let the image carry most of the message. Like most of my work-related tics, this tension always comes in waves that last a week or two.

I guess this is the last one of those phases, eh?

hell freezes over

Though I obviously don’t share his “sky is bright pink” perspective (I prefer to think of it as blue), I agree with Mike Ramirez’s take on McCain’s adulatory treatment by the press.

The McCain phenomenon demonstrates precisely what is wrong with political coverage in this country. His “straight-shooter” rep might have breached the line between simulation and simulacra, even.

steroids

I originally wanted to include an actual ass in this cartoon, but I thought better of it.