Author Archives: Joe

Nature’s Abstractions

Posted on April 2, 2023 by Joe

This is a twisted old tree in Lansdowne that I have been passing by and admiring for years. It’s not the first time I have shot it, and it won’t be the last.

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Arrivederci Sketchbook

Posted on March 28, 2023 by Joe

Out of This World Sketch Pad October 17, 2022 – March 26, 2023 I have put to rest what is probably the last of the novelty sketchpads distributed by the Horizon Group USA to Target stores. At least it was … Continue reading →

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Confessions of a Sofa Sketcher

Posted on March 22, 2023 by Joe

I sit on a couch with a cat and a spouse scribbling my graphite grotesques into the night. Some of them are good. Some of them stink. Some of them I do in pen and ink.

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Hell’s Virtue Signalers on Wheels

Posted on March 19, 2023 by Joe

This was a cartoon I did a year ago but put away because I didn’t think the trend would last. The joke was stale so why bother? I decided to dig out the sketchbook it was in and finish it … Continue reading →

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Carnival of Souls in COLOR!

Posted on March 16, 2023 by Joe

I recently did an article about my thoughts on the once controversial subject of colorizing old black and white films. I never knew what all the fuss was about because it wasn’t like the original was destroyed in favor of … Continue reading →

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Sketchbook • Gruesome Graphite Grotesques

Posted on March 15, 2023 by Joe

I sit on a couch with a cat and a spouse scribbling graphite grotesques into the night. Continue reading →

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Before Video Cassettes

Posted on March 7, 2023 by Joe

A lot of members of the generation that begat the baby boomers were sold on movie cameras in order to capture those babies’ first steps or opening presents Christmas morning or the vacation to the beach. And if Mom and … Continue reading →

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