A few from the "Nuggets Sketchbook" series - one of which I forgot to put the designating caption on, but it's stylistically - and obviously - different enough from 98% of all the other panels done in pen & ink, since they're rendered with ballpoint pen. Like the one posted up top here, "AK Salmonella," these were all just taken straight off the pages of the omnipresent sketchbook, with minimal tweaking for the print version.
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One possible take on this is I'm just too damn lazy or in a tight spot with a deadline to bother redrawing it out in the usual process. Another perspective is that the unique charming aesthetic of a raw doodle that captures the inherent, organic immediacy of an unfiltered sketch can be a challenge to replicate afterwards, if not lost when rendering into traditional media.
"Moooose" is a great example of this. It also illustrates the ridiculous contrast between bovines and our residential ungulates, as well as a hat-tip to the Iowan inlaws.
"Wheeeeasel" is so pure and stupid, just a gleeful gag. I forgot about drawing it, then forgot about submitting it, and so was surprised to see on the pages of an issue in the Sundays section. Not that it's forgettable by any means, just an ephemeral pun that lasts as long as an ermine's seasonal coat.
"Tickling the Ivories" was directly inspired by some piano accompaniment to last year's show down at Flossie & May's. Aside from the innocent idiom, I think there's a definite undercurrent of innuendo at work as well. As with all works of art, I guess "you see what you bring to the piece."
Lastly we have one from a faculty meeting where I realized I was the only one at the table without a computer. I actually have come to not mind meetings as long as they are of a sizable number of people, so it's easier to concentrate on sketching.
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