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Honoring Innocence By Being a Voice For Those Who Cannot Speak

Protecting the innocent is something that has often been heavy on my heart. I once wrote a song about one of my favorite books, Catcher in the Rye, in which I sang about how I wanted to warn all the children not to lose their faith as I have a certain times in my life.

MP3 Saturday: John the Revelator

Today is the Feast Day of John the Apostle (or the Divine or the Revelator or the Evangelist), but since its also MP3 Saturday, I thought I would forgo my usual post for feast days and treat you to my cover of the traditional blues tune, "John the Revelator".

I first …

Happy St. Stephen's Day from Scrooge McDuck

The Stoning of St. Stephen, Rembrandt, 1625 oil on canvas

These days St. Stephen's Day is a more important religious holiday for me than Christmas. Sure I got to church on Christmas Eve and try to understand the story I've heard many times, but frankly the mystery of …

Merry Christmas

O holy Child of Bethlehem
Descend to us, we pray
Cast out our sin and enter in
Be born to us today
We hear the Christmas angels
The great glad tidings tell
O come to us, abide with us
Our Lord Emmanuel


Merry Christmas!

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Printing with Trash

As I mentioned before, I've been working on new mini printed from carved Styrofoam printing plates (cut from my egg cartons and meat trays.) Last night, I got a chance to print off a bunch of pages and early this morning I got to work on it again. Here's the first …

MP3 Saturday: Lo! How A Rose E're Blooming

I heard Feist do a nice version of "Lo! How A Rose E're Blooming" the other day and thought I'd try to do a version myself. More Ancient hymns on Banjo! Woo Hoo!

Lo! How A Rose E're Blooming (download)


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Help Prevent Child Deaths!

It is actually easier than you think to put an end to preventable child deaths. Think bigger. Think Mission Match.

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What to Teach When One's Students Have Ants in Their Pants

Its the week before break, which is typically a stressful time for teachers. The kids aren't getting outside much due the cold and they're stressed because their parents are stressed. A general tone of bonkers settles into the school and you just have to hang on for …

To Wordpress or Not to Wordpress

So I signed up with webcomicsnation a few years ago when they opened it up for free accounts. I've been tooncasting the comics onto my own site, but the interface is still screwy. I've toyed with getting a wordpress version of each comic and installing comic press, …

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We had some church friends over yesterday for lunch. Since we don't have any toys, my wife suggested we decorate cookies with the kids. I helped out by showing them how to make snowflakes (and then how to be "human vacuums" and cleaning up all the scraps!)

Another Hand Printed Mini Is On The Way

I always look forward to winter break, because it means I can make more COMICS.

I got a head start on printing these up this weekend.

MP3 Saturday: Peace On Earth/I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

When I was younger I thought it was a cop out when people would talk about the "peace that surpasses all understanding" amidst injustice and pain. It seemed like the Tralfamadorians covering up their eyes so as not to look at the reality of evil.

Yet, the themes of …

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Rose Windows with Kindergarten

I show the Kindergarten classes a Power Point about all the different aspects of Cathedrals (arches, rose windows, stained glass, flying buttresses.) Then, they trace around a circle template on a piece of paper and fill the circle with decoupaged tissue paper.

This is …

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Apollo's Song by Osamu Tezuka

I just finished Tezuka's classic "Apollo's Song" and I highly recommend it. Though its not for the faint of heart, I would recommend it for the sheer beauty of design.

Check out a few scans of some of the most striking page layouts:



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Remove the Stones From the Road

Mosaic from Palatine Chapel of Palermo. Palermo, Italy

"Hence John [the Baptist] prepared these ways of mercy and truth, faith and justice. Concerning them, Jeremiah also declared, "Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is, and …

A Styrofoam Block Print Comic

This is a test print for a comic I'm working that will use discarded Styrofoam egg cartons as printing blocks. More is on the way soon.

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