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The Baby Devil

The Baby Devil

I always enjoy movies about evil children–The Omen, The Bad Seed, The Other and, of course, The Exorcist, featuring Linda Blair painting the loc...
Art Devil Evil Children Horror Movie Superhero
The Top

The Top

When I was a young idiot and in a hurry to assert my masculinity, I made stupid remarks about gay people and indulged in the unfocused bigotry o...
Art Gay Superhero
The White Canary

The White Canary

I envisioned this superhero as a Japanese manga kind of hero; a woman superhero.  When I was in Japan, I’d notice that it was mostly men with th...
Art Manga Superhero Watchmen
The Atomic King of Nothing

The Atomic King of Nothing

I grew up on comics.  The Sunday funnies, Marvel Comics, Mad Magazine, you name it.  I was enthralled with the grotesques and rogues who populat...
Art Superhero
The Acrobat

The Acrobat

In the mid ’60s there was a marvelous impressionist and comic named Frank Gorshin whose biggest claim to fame was playing The Riddler on Batman,...
Art Batman Conformity Costume Frank Gorshin Riddler Superhero
Jesus of Chicago

Jesus of Chicago

I just got back from Maine–Rockland, Maine.  One of those beautiful, bucolic towns that Edward Hopper, Robert Henri, and three generations of Wy...
Art Chicago
Drawing for the Jazz Baroness

Drawing for the Jazz Baroness

She was born a Rothschild, an heiress of one of Europe’s great fortunes.  The Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter or “Nica” to her friends  in t...
Art Charlie Parker Jazz Pannonica Storyville Thelonius Monk
Sayaka’s Fish

Sayaka’s Fish

Hey– When I travel , I try to use my ears and eyes more than anything else, and let a smile be my passport. Last year when I went to Tokyo, I we...
Art Carp Japan Tokyo
The Oil Beast

The Oil Beast

I have a love for Mythological creatures–monsters, mermaids, Selkies, golems and whatnot– angels of death. . . Being a refugee from Catholicism,...
Art New Orleans
FireCat of the Tokyo Hotel, Chicago

FireCat of the Tokyo Hotel, Chicago

The Tokyo Hotel on Ohio, in Chicago, is a shithole.  It’s the kind of place I once feared I’d be found dead in.  The customer reviews for this p...
Art Cat Cherry Blossom Tokyo Ueno Park
The Fire Cat

The Fire Cat

This comes from a story I once tried to write as a young kid about a man who gives  a woman a fire-colored cat in order to win her heart.  She i...
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The Sky at Akron

The Sky at Akron

It seems the Blue Tip Ohio Girls are becoming a body of work.  I’m kind of hypnotized by them.  The more of them I make, the more Ohio stories I...
Akron Art Ohio