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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Tag Team Photo Restoration
This is a cousin’s photograph that has seen some better days. I’m not sure how it ended up torn and missing the top, but Tina and I decided to provide some digital TLC. I scanned it in and both Tina … Continue reading
Posted in photo manipulation
Tagged Joe Williams, photo manipulation, restoration, Tina Garceau
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Monkey Seeks Wisdom
Read the new installment of Monkey & Bird at CO2 Comics!
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Bell Man & Beverage Boy
This is another fun idea that never quite made it. Back in the late ’80s, early ’90s I was working with a couple of guys trying to dig up freelance clients in need of graphic design and/or illustration. We were … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch
Tagged comics, Joe Williams, Sketch, sketchbook, super-hero
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The Modern Prometheus
Sometimes I do sketches that I keep meaning to chase down again. This version of the Frankenstein Monster is among them. I was working on a company Christmas card that I wasn’t really enthusiastic about, and this fellow kept … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch
Tagged Frankenstein, Joe Williams, monster, Sketch, sketchbook
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Ceau – A Needle Pulling Thread
Tina Garceau’s latest creation is a handmade quilt for newly arrived, great-nephew Charles IV.
Bird and the City
It’s brunch in the jungle, and Sylvia the Bird is letting her feathers down with the girls. Check out the latest installment of Monkey & Bird at CO2 Comics.
Posted in Monkey & Bird
Tagged Cartoon, comics, humor, Joe Williams, Monkey & Bird, Tina Garceau, Willceau
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Vampire/Rat Man
Another pen and ink doodle from the mid-80s. Technical pens were my weapon of choice at the time.
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch
Tagged Joe Williams, Sketch, sketchbook, technical pen
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Room With a View
View from a window in Amsterdam.


