Top Posts & Pages
-
Recent Posts
- 9th Street Frosty January 28, 2026
- Party Like It’s 2009! January 27, 2026
- Butternut Squash & Sweet Potato Soup January 26, 2026
- Caturday January 24, 2026
- RIP Uncle Floyd January 23, 2026
Read Monkey & Bird

Archives
Subscribe via Email
-
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy Pages
Sites of Interest
Tags
- 9th Street
- 1980s
- analog
- antique photograph
- baking
- Cartoon
- cartoons
- cat
- CO2 Comics
- collage
- comic
- comic book
- comics
- digital illustration
- early 20th Century
- feline
- Friday Five
- ginger cats
- glass negative
- Halloween
- horror
- humor
- Illustration
- Joe Williams
- John B Capewell
- kitty
- monster
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia
- Philadelphia College of Art
- photography
- Photoshop
- Plywood
- Plywood the Cat
- Sketch
- sketchbook
- South Philly
- The Capewell Glass Negative Collection
- Tina Garceau
- USA
- vintage
- vintage photos
- Westville
- Willceau
Tag Archives: Cartoon
School Days – The Swinging Algebra Teacher
School days, school days, dear old golden rule days, Readin’ and ‘ritin’ and ‘rithmetic… Yeah, right. We’ve arrived at ‘rithmetic with The Swinging Algebra Teacher.
Posted in Illustration, Vector Illustration
Tagged 1970s, Affinity Designer, algebra, Cartoon, cartoons, club, dance, digital illustration, disco, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, New Jersey, Philadelphia, USA, vector art, vetor
2 Comments
The Green Ghoul
Recently I’ve been traipsing down memory lane revisiting the people and impressions I had of grade school and junior high in the form of cartoons. Today I offer some images that I probably doodled in the margins of notebooks when … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Vector Illustration
Tagged Affinity Designer, Cartoon, comics, digital illustration, horror, Illustration, Joe Williams, USA, vector, vector art
2 Comments
School Days – The Cool Substitute Teacher
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
Posted in Illustration, News, Vector Illustration
Tagged 1970s, 1974, Affinity Designer, Cartoon, digital illustration, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, school, school days, substitute, USA, vector
2 Comments
Fuxi Sketchbook • 09-01-2023 to 01-02-2024
I thought this cheap, Chinese-made sketchbook could possibly be the next Sketchbook from Heaven, but not quite. The size, shape and country of manufacture were the same as my favorite sketchbooks, but it wasn’t quite as magical as those earlier … Continue reading
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged Cartoon, cartoons, Fuxi, Illustration, Joe Williams, Sketch, sketchbook, USA
2 Comments
Turning the Page on 2023
Happy New Year! I finished 2023 sitting on the couch with a cat and a spouse scribbling away in small, cheap sketchbooks, and I have resolved to do the same thing in 2024!
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch
Tagged Cartoon, cartoons, Illustration, Joe Williams, science fiction, Sketch, sketchbook, space, spaceman
Leave a comment
27 Years!
Happy 27th Anniversary to my dear husband Joe!
Cosmic Maaaaaannnnn Sticks Around for Another Birthday
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
Posted in Drawer Cards, Illustration
Tagged analog, birthday, Cartoon, cartoons, Cosmic Maaaaaannnnn, digital illustration, Drawer Card, Drawer Cards, Happy Birthday, Happy birthday Tina, Hippie, Joe Williams, outer space, stars, Tina, USA
Leave a comment
There’s No Escape from a DEADLINE!
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
Posted in Blast from the Past, Illustration
Tagged 1990s, Cartoon, cartoons, CO2 Comics, comic, comics, deadline, digital color, digital illustration, humor, Illustration, Joe Williams, mini-comic, Power Mac 7300, promotion, promotional, salesman, service bureau, USA
Leave a comment
The Little Sketchbooks
Last week I was going to gather my collection of little sketchbooks that I have been keeping since 2017. I have always kept sketchbooks, but my fascination for the small ones started when my wife snagged me the original Sketchbook … Continue reading
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged analog, Cartoon, cartoons, comic, doodle, Illustration, inexpensive, Joe Williams, sketchbook, Sketchbook from Heaven, USA
2 Comments


