Category Archives: Illustration

School Days – The Angry Librarian

Posted on January 24, 2024 by Joe

The angry librarian insisted on absolute, tomb-like silence as if Karl Wallenda was traversing a tightrope above a Bengal tiger trap in the middle of the library and absolute concentration was vital to the aerialist’s survival. Continue reading →

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School Days – The Cool Substitute Teacher

Posted on January 21, 2024 by Joe

The Cool Substitute Teacher circa 1974 is an illustration that fell together as I was playing with shapes in the superlative vector art program Affinity Designer. I was hoping to come up with another monster for my collection of Halloween … Continue reading →

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Building a Robot

Posted on January 19, 2024 by Joe

…with Affinity Designer. I started to work on this mechanical man to shake the rust from my vector graphic cartooning skills. Of late, I have been spending more time with pencils and paper than I have been with the Affinity … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Joe!!!

Posted on November 30, 2023 by Tina Garceau

For Joe’s card this year, I chose an interpretation of one of my childhood games – Mystery Date. If you’ve ever played it, you know that the dream date is wearing a white tuxedo and the dud is clad in … Continue reading →

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Friday Five – Number One Hundred Sixty Six

Posted on October 27, 2023 by Tina Garceau

One hundred sixty sixth in a continued series creating a collage using five elements.

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Cosmic Maaaaaannnnn Sticks Around for Another Birthday

Posted on October 7, 2023 by Joe

As I have written before, it’s Tina’s and my tradition to exchange birthday, anniversary and holiday cards we have illustrated ourselves. It’s more personal and making your own cards is a lot cheaper than a Hallmark card from one of … Continue reading →

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There’s No Escape from a DEADLINE!

Posted on September 26, 2023 by Joe

Back in the late 1990s I was exploring the illustrative possibilities of my newly purchased Power Mac 7300. I put a lot of time and effort chasing down what meager information I could via a dial-up modem; picking the brains … Continue reading →

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