Pup Theology cartoon

I’m currently attending a Methodist church in Manchester, Michigan, and one of the Pastor’s activities is called “Pub Theology,” in which participants gather at Over the Edge Sports Bar every other Thursday and talk about a topic of Theological, social, or otherwise spiritual significance to the Christian faith.  Most of the discussion are open ended, but stimulating.

While at one session, I sketched out a cartoon idea I had had while in my car.  Pastor Dillon was wearing this exact sweatshirt, and he now owns the original sketch.

Members of the congregation commented that the dog shown here looks a lot like Pastor Dillon’s dog Buddy.  I printed this out to an iron-on transfer sheet, and I now can wear it around!

Update

To those willing to listen...

The Wild Acorn LLC is an art consignment store in Manchester, MI, which is consigning pet portraits from me...so far, no bites.  Today, however, I just handed in a few (very few) greeting cards with comics on them.  If all goes well, they should sell out in a short time and I can submit larger quantities.  So much fun.

Fun 4 All Comics and Games is, of course, a comic books, cards, and games store in Ann Arbor on Washtenaw Avenue somewhere between Eastern Michigan University and the ArborLand Plaza.

I'm having a couple days to myself, so today, I decided to hand in a resume and show the attendant a PDF of my comic book-in-progress, Wolfram: A Gothic Parable.  After all, this is the kind of thing I want to go into and I need a job to support my drawing and other necessities.

The attendant seemed to like the book and offered to pass the file on for the company to look at.  Also, he told me that any callbacks would be made the following week.

Sweet fortuity, I thought to myself, it looks like I put my resume in just in the nick of time!

No promises yet...but hope seems feasible.


So anyway, to those willing to listen,

God has really been good to me!

Dairy/Beef and Pork Sell Out Chicken

A little bit of fun with the Annual Manchester Chicken Broil, which usually takes place in the mid- to late-summer.  My latest postcard design for tourists in Manchester.

Update

Sorry I haven't been updating regularly.  I've been busy around the house and with job hunting and such things as these, but I'm still hoping to update twice a week (never less than once).  I've also added my twitter updates so I can tell you how Wolfram is coming along without intruding on the comics.

In the meantime, enjoy this comic, the raw material for my second postcard design:

And feel free to go over old memories of Smile and Wag from the Eastern Echo (in other words, earlier posts from this blog).

SparkyART Postcard: "Warm, Sunny Michigan"

Greetings from Warm Sunny Michigan!

Thinking about designing postcards for the Michigan area...admittedly, I need to experiment with different fonts, since this one isn't quite what the doctor ordered for what I'm going for.

(I'm posting this postcard because I sadly don't have a comic prepared for today.  Maybe I'll have another postcard on Friday?  Got one already thought up. [wag, wag, wag.] )