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Happy Birthday, Tina!
Here is this year’s birthday card for Tina. I decided to ape her Friday Five fashion with this one.
Scarf Boy
A while back the site Stuff White People Like did one of their many lists of objects and activities particular to Caucasians, and one of them was women wearing scarves as a year ’round fashion accessory. I chuckled because I … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures in Commuting, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged art, Cartoon, cartoons, commute, drawing, fashion, fun, heat, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, metrosexual, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, scarf, Sketch, sketchbook, summer, USA, Willceau
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It Came From The Sketchbook – The Little Black Book
A few weeks ago I decided to give the What I Like About Comics category a rest and blow the dust off of the It Came From The Sketchbook category shaking loose some of the drawings from sketchbooks I’ve got … Continue reading
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged analog, art, art supply, Cartoon, cartoons, Charrette, CO2 Comics, comic, comic book, comics, commute, hard-bound, humor, Illustration, It Came From The Sketchbook, Joe Williams, Market-Frankford El, Monkey & Bird, pencil, Philadelphia, SEPTA, Sketch, sketchbook, Willceau
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Killing the Sketchbook from Hell
A sketch I did with my favorite indigo blue pencil while sitting at the Ridgeway pool in South Philadelphia this summer. This was the first satisfying sketch I did in the dreaded Sketchbook from Hell!
Posted in Curious Clutter, Illustration, It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch, Technique
Tagged 1980s, 1987, 2012, art, Cartoon, cartoons, CO2 Comics, comic, comic book, comics, drawing, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, Monkey & Bird, Sketch, sketchbook, sketchbook from hell
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Friday Five – Number Five
The fifth in a series creating a collage using five elements.
Posted in Friday Five, Illustration
Tagged art, boot, butterfly, collage, digital illustration, Tina Garceau. illustration, Willceau Illo
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Be Good Looking for a Dollar! (Plus Shipping)
Back before the term body dysmorphic disorder was coined, it was perfectly all right to obsess over every imperfection in one’s countenance brought about by the chaos of puberty and the resultant heartbreak of acne. Paragon-like beauty could be had … Continue reading
Posted in What I Miss About Comics
Tagged 1970, acne, ads, anger, art, black heads, comic books, comics, energy, Great Refuge, Inhumans, Jack Kirby, lunatic, Marvel Comics, Maximus, pimples, Silver Surfer, zits
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The First Computer I Owned
This is a follow-up to I was a PC Before I Was a Mac which I wrote back in May. It was about the first computer I bought which was a PC and not a Mac. I had used a … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Computers, Joe's Garage
Tagged 386, Apple, art, computer, CorelDraw!, Pack-Mate 386/25, Packard Bell, PC, vector, Windows
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Trash or Treasure?
It’s trash day in the neighborhood, and something I found in a neighbor’s pile of refuse has prompted me to create this new category: Trash or Treasure.
Posted in Trash or Treasure
Tagged art, embroidered, fairie, fantasy, garbage, humor, needle point, Renaissance Fair, trash, treasure, unicorn, wood nymph
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Raining on Raine’s Parade
Last week, I rushed to the defense of Raine Szramski and her time proven choice to use traditional methods in the creation of her art. She had received some unsolicited advice that she should cast aside all of the ancient … Continue reading


